Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday

Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday

Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor, pushed back on calls to not vote for Joe Biden over his handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying on Sunday that could help Trump get re-elected.

“It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that any vote that’s not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term,” she said on Sunday during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “A second Trump term would be devastating. Not just on fundamental rights, not just on our democracy here at home, but also when it comes to foreign policy. This was a man who promoted a Muslim ban.”

Whitmer, who is a co-chair of Biden’s 2024 campaign, also said she wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to the protest vote.

Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat who is the only Palestinian-American serving in Congress, urged Democrats last week to vote “uncommitted” in Michigan’s 27 February primary.

  • webbfinch89@lemmy.world
    136·
    9 months ago

    Going against the best wishes for you and your country because you don’t agree with foreign policy (which will not change under either governments) might be the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      72·
      9 months ago

      It’s not a real argument, it’s really about saying that you won’t participate because you don’t like the options. Notably, if you go to lemmygrad or lemm.ml, you’ll find that people are all over this. They want to use it to cause “empire” collapse.

      • phillaholic@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        They want to use it to cause “empire” collapse.

        Which will ironically cause the GOP to throw away democracy in favor an an authoritarian state. Those people are either Russian propagandists or rubes.

        • stoly@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 months ago

          I’m not convinced that they are plants, fake, etc. I really do believe that THEY believe everything they say just like Evangelicals and Sovereign Citizens believe what they say. They are all people that are messed up in precisely the same ways.

          • phillaholic@lemm.ee
            1·
            9 months ago

            It’s fake social media groups created by foreign adversaries that convince Americans to go out and do it. It’s been well established that the likes of China, Russia, North Korea, etc have weaponized our free speech against us. We can’t do the same against them, so we are at a disadvantage.