Biden faces Gaza protest vote in Michigan primary

The State of Michiganin U.Svote this Tuesday in a presidential primary that presents itself as a mere procedure for the Republican donald trump but they could burn the democrat Joe Biden due to the war in Link.

The president Biden81 years old, has no serious opponents in his path to being nominated as a candidate for a second term in the White House.

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But like the civilian deaths in the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas Muslim and Arab-American support declines. In 2020, they were crucial to the narrow victory over trump in this state in the center-west of the country.

The activists of Michiganknown as the Great Lakes State, wants residents to vote “no obligation” in protest. They call on the president to reverse his support for Israel and call for an immediate ceasefire.

Four years ago, Biden’s margin of victory was just 150,000 votes.

“The president Biden “He financed the dropping of bombs on families of people in Michigan, people who voted for him and who now feel completely betrayed.”declared Layla Elabedof the Bell “Listen to Michigan”.

The group intends to gather 10 thousand voters”no obligation” to transmit a “powerful and unequivocal message” that financing and supporting war is “at odds with the values ​​of the Democratic Party”.

Biden is moving full speed ahead toward the Democratic nomination. His main rival, deputy MinnesotaDean Phillipsgets just single digits in searches.

“Ten thousand votes is more or less equal to the margin of donald trump about Hillary Clinton in 2016″Elabed said.

The war started when Hamas wholesale Israel on October 7, killing around 1,160 people in Israeli territory, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.

Concern has grown over the high number of civilian deaths in the US retaliatory campaign. Israelwhich is already equivalent to almost 30,000according to the Ministry of Health of Linkgoverned by Hamas.

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“Unacceptable”

Some employees of the The White House they guarantee that Biden is frustrated with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

That didn’t stop him from sending American weapons to the country, despite efforts to negotiate a deal second break in the fight.

Biden asked the Congress billions of dollars in aid additional military and his government vetoed several appeals from the US Security Council UN to a ceasefire.

During the primaries of New Hampshire A similar campaign was launched which had little impact, but Michigan It has more Muslim and Arab population.

Abdullah HammoudMayor of Dearborna suburb of Detroit with an Arab-American majority, considers that Tuesday’s vote aims to “hold the president accountable Biden”.

When “we vote for ‘no compromise’, what we are saying is that your decision-making in Palestine is unacceptable, that 30,000 deaths are unacceptable, that endless military aid is unacceptable,” he said. Hammoud Monday night on the social platform Instagram.

As for Republicans, Trump swept the first states that voted and is not expected to do so. Michigan halt his march towards the nomination.

His only rival, his former ambassador to UN Nikki Haleylost in his home state of South Carolina over the weekend but refused to resign because he doubts Trump can defeat Biden.

“We are in a leaky boat. You can ignore the hole and go down with the ship, or you can recognize that we have to look for a lifeboat”, he told CNN this Tuesday.

Haley was dealt another blow on Sunday when the Koch family network announced it was suspending donations to your campaign.

Both parties hold votes on Tuesday, but Republicans have adopted a complex hybrid system that concludes this state’s primaries four days later through caucuses in each of the 13 districts.

Source: Elcomercio

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