Biden Humiliated As ‘Uncommitted’ Vote Wins Huge Chunk In Key Blue State

Progressive voters in Minnesota sent a resounding message of disappointment to President Joe Biden on Super Tuesday, with a significant chunk of Democratic primary voters rejecting the incumbent in favor of an option expressing no preference for any candidate.

Biden, who faced a nominal challenger in Congressman Dean Phillips (D-MN), who garnered 7.8% of the vote in his own state, saw “Uncommitted” collect 18.9% after a concerted campaign by liberal activists seeking to dent his path to securing the party’s nomination.

The state is home to Squad members Rashida Tlaib (D-MN) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), both of whom have vocally called for curtailing Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. As President Biden has triangulated his position on the war to meet the large majority of Americans who side with Israel, far-left Democrats have increasingly expressed their displeasure. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), another Squad member, was chased out of a Brooklyn movie theater on Monday by protestors demanding she step up her criticism of Israel for committing “genocide.”

The number of uncommitted Democrats in Minnesota represents the most embarrassing rejection of Biden by members of his own party. Alabama’s primary, also held Tuesday, saw “uncommitted” garner 6% of Democratic voters, the second highest showing. Rep. Phillips came up short there as well as in Colorado where he collected 3% of the vote to 8% for “Noncommitted Delegate,” according to the Western Journal. Biden also saw 8% siphoned away by uncommitted Democrats in Tennessee.

While observers believe no serious challenger to President Biden remains in the Democratic primary, Tuesday’s results are another indication that he has failed to secure large swaths of the party’s coalition of voters, including young people and voters of color. Recent polling shows former President Donald Trump leading the incumbent among 18-29-year-olds while enjoying roughly 20% support among Black voters, which would represent the largest share for any Republican nominee since the Civil Rights era.

In the face of withering criticism about Israel, inflation, and the border, allies to Biden have attempted to cast him as a calm and steady leader willing to take on a less predictable Republican rival in Trump. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre has worked overtime to convince journalists that Americans concerned with Biden’s advanced age should not fear his ability to perform the world’s most demanding job, but that hasn’t stopped Vice President Kamala Harris from awkwardly defending her boss as “very much alive,” a less-than-convincing argument for reelection.