DETROIT, Michigan — President Joe Biden‘s standing in the battleground state of Michigan is about to be tested by another protest vote campaign.
Democrats are being encouraged to mark themselves as “uncommitted” rather than supporting Biden during next week’s Feb. 27 presidential primary to express their concerns about his response to the Israel–Hamas war. And unlike the ceasefire write-in campaign in New Hampshire last month, Michigan’s dynamic Arab and Muslim American communities could create political problems for the president now and in November.
With the Listen to Michigan campaign, led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib‘s (D-MI) sister Layla Elabed with a budget of $250,000, along with the similar Abandon Biden campaign, the uncommitted protest vote
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