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Michigan Primary Spells Disaster For Biden As ‘Uncommitted’ Vote Approaches 20 Percent

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A major story has emerged out of the Democrat Primary in Michigan, where significant numbers of Democrats are voting against the incumbent president.

Led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), thousands of Michigan Democrats vowed to vote “uncommitted” in protest of Biden’s support for Israel and his inability to negotiate a ceasefire. Tlaib — who has not committed to supporting Biden in November — urged voters to use their primary vote as a form of protest in the weeks leading up to the election.

“I was proud today to walk in and pull a democratic ballot and vote uncommitted. We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that our government is about us, about the people. When 74% of Democrats in Michigan support a ceasefire, yet President Biden is not hearing us. This is the way we can use our democracy to say, listen, listen to Michigan, listen to the families right now that have been directly impacted,” Tlaib said in a video statement Tuesday. 

The uncommitted campaign had set a goal for 10,000 votes, a figure that was surpassed with less than eight percent of ballots counted.

According to estimates from the Associated Press, 15,954 Michigan Democrats have already voted “uncommitted” with a little more than 10 percent of ballots counted. U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips and perennial candidate Marianne Williamson are also receiving roughly two percent of the vote, leaving Biden’s vote share at 78.42 percent of the vote as of 8:50 p.m. Eastern Time.

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This is far below then-President Trump’s margin of victory, who secured more than 90 percent of the GOP vote when he ran as an incumbent in 2020.

Even if the results narrow as more results come in, the success of the “uncommitted” campaign is giving Biden surrogates cause for concern in 2020. The number of uncommitted voters already surpasses the margin of victory Trump needed to defeat Hilary Clinton in 2016, spelling potential disaster if even half of Tuesday’s uncommitted voters refuse to come back to Biden in November.

According to the Real Clear Polling average of more than a dozen polls, Trump currently leads Biden in Michigan by 5.1 percentage points.



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