Washington, February 26th. (Adnkronos) – There is a risk of a protest vote for Joe Biden in the Michigan primary today. “It's important to create a voting bloc, something like a megaphone to say 'enough is enough.' We don't want a country that supports wars, bombs and destruction, we want to support life, every single life that is killed in Gaza,” he explains. In fact, Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative of Palestinian descent elected in the state, has become one of the main voices calling on the Democratic base to vote for 'nobody' instead of Biden to send a message about the need for the US to call for the ceasefire concrete support. “It's not an anti-Biden campaign, it's a humanitarian vote, a protest vote, a vote to tell Biden and his administration that we believe in saving lives,” Layla Elebad, a Democratic activist from Michigan, said by Tlaib, who launched Listen to Michigan, one of the campaigns, along with Our Revolution and Abadon Biden, that have worked in recent weeks to get voters, particularly Arab Americans, to show their disappointment in the facts about Biden with his unconditional support for Israel. “If you want us to be heard, come here to vote and vote 'Nobody,'” the first woman of Palestinian descent to come to Congress said in a video recorded in front of one of the primary polling stations and posted on social media Networks were published media. According to organizers, at least 10,000 people will vote for “Nobody.” They remind you that in 2016 it was exactly 10,000 votes that gave Trump victory in the state. It was precisely this risk that Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan and co-president of the Biden 2024 campaign, was referring to when she criticized the campaign for the protest vote. “It is important not to lose sight of the fact that every vote not given to Joe Biden supports a second term for Trump,” said the Democrat, who has been named as a possible candidate for the White House in the event of resignation Biden's is always in circulation – a second Trump term would be devastating, not only for fundamental rights, not only for democracy, but also for foreign policy.” “He was the one who pushed forward the Muslim ban,” remembers Whitmer. Arguments that do not convince supporters of the protest vote: “We think the previous president was repugnant, he prevented our family members, friends and colleagues from entering the country, but Mr. Biden is killing them,” he says, referring to the weapons that are there The US continues to send Hassan Abdel Salam, a member of the Abandon Biden National Coalition, to Israel despite disagreements with Benjamin Netanyahu's government. While Democrats in today's Michigan primary will elect all 117 delegates who will go to the convention to nominate the candidate, Republicans will have 16 delegates elected during the primary, while the remaining 39 will be elected at a state convention taking place on Saturday instead of. Since Donald Trump, fresh from Saturday's success in South Carolina, is also clearly ahead of Nikki Haley in Michigan, who is not giving up despite the series of defeats, this strange and complex “broken” system of choosing delegates is closed on the Republican front see convention. The fact is that there are currently two different local Republican Party leaders claiming the presidency: Kristina Karamo and Pete Hoekstra. Even if the Republican National Committee only recognizes the latter as the legitimate president, Karamo will hold an alternative convention, and therefore it is unclear which two conventions will actually elect delegates. “If other people who think they represent the Republican Party want to meet wherever they want, they can do that, but this will not be a convention,” Hoekstra said, with Karamo claiming she was running “a legal entity.” . Aside from internal tensions within the party, the complex structure of the Republican primaries is a response to the change in the date of the primaries from March to February, decided by the Democrats leading the state to implement the revolution in the primary calendar of Joe Biden. The Republicans rejected this, saying that this new calendar contradicted that of the Republican Committee, and then came to this compromise solution of dividing the allocation of delegates into two parts, a first group during the primaries – which are called by the authorities the state – and a second group in the party-run convention, or caucus, on the traditional date, March 2, of the Michigan primary. In recent election cycles, Michigan has proven to be a key state, giving Trump the decisive victory and the White House in 2016 by just over 10,000 votes, while Joe Biden won in 2020, albeit always narrowly. According to a poll published by The Hill, if an election were held today, the former president would win the White House by a two-point margin, with 46% to the president's 44% and 10% undecided.
