Samraa Luqman (R) hands out fliers outside of the American Moslem Society Mosque to ask voters not to vote for President Joe Biden after Friday prayers in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, on February 16, 2024. "The only way I'd vote for Biden is if he could resurrect the 30,000 people who died" in Gaza, says Luqman. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
But critics in Dearborn, which has the highest per capita Muslim population in the U.S., have accused Biden of supporting what they call a "genocide" in Gaza, leading to a campaign to punish the president at the polls in 2024.
That campaign gained traction and national attention in Michigan, where during the state’s Democratic primary, groups such as Listen to Michigan led over 100,000 voters to mark "uncommitted" on their ballots as a protest against Biden’s re-election bid.
"We went into the primaries expecting or aiming to get 10,000 uncommitted votes, which was Trump's margin of victory in 2016," Zeidan said. "And we ended up with over 101,000 uncommitted votes, where we also landed two delegates in District 12, in District 6, who will be headed to the national convention."
Lexis Zeidan of Michigan is leading a protest effort to get Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the presidential primary as a rebuke to President Biden. (Getty Images)
Stockton noted that while much attention has been given to the concerns of Muslim voters in Dearborn, the movement has the potential to spread "nationally," thanks to the support campaigns such as Abandon Biden and Listen to Michigan enjoy among younger voters across the demographic spectrum.
"Those people below 30 are abandoning Biden, they’re so heavily against this war," Stockton said. "It’s a generational thing, and I am talking nationally now, that’s a national pattern."
That trend could even extend to states outside of what are traditionally thought of as swing states, Zeidman said, pointing out that the Listen to Michigan campaign has also spread to blue havens such as Washington. Meanwhile, a Listen to Maryland spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the campaign there is now mobilizing voters to select "uncommitted" in that state’s Democratic primary.
Both Luqman and Zeidan argued that their respective movements should also be seen as a message to Democrats across the country, warning them to change their stance on support of Israel’s war or face the consequences at the ballot box.
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"The grassroots movement we’ve built in the way that people have felt inspired and re-engaged in being politically active, we felt it was incumbent upon us as an organization to keep that growing," Zeidan said. "And so now you’ve seen is we have exceeded goals across the state … and our next stage of the game is to get all our delegates together to continue to take our anti-war, pro peace, pro-Palestinian narrative to the convention in August."
"The President is working tirelessly to end the violence and bring about a just, lasting peace in the Middle East," a Biden campaign spokesperson responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the Abandon Biden and Vote Uncommitted campaigns.
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