Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote āuncommittedā in Michiganās 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.
āItās important not to lose sight of the fact that any vote thatās not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term,ā she said on Sunday during an interview on CNNās State of the Union. āA 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.ā
Whitmer, who is a co-chair of Bidenās 2024 campaign, also said she wasnāt 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 āuncommittedā in Michiganās 27 February primary.
Going against the best wishes for you and your country because you donāt agree with foreign policy (which will not change under either governments) might be the absolute stupidest thing Iāve ever heard.
Itās not a real argument, itās really about saying that you wonāt participate because you donāt like the options. Notably, if you go to lemmygrad or lemm.ml, youāll find that people are all over this. They want to use it to cause āempireā 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.
Iām 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.
Itās fake social media groups created by foreign adversaries that convince Americans to go out and do it. Itās been well established that the likes of China, Russia, North Korea, etc have weaponized our free speech against us. We canāt do the same against them, so we are at a disadvantage.