On Saturday, a coalition of Muslim leaders in swing states announced they are stepping up their efforts to make sure Joe Biden (assuming he's the Democrat candidate, which is anything but certain) loses the 2024 presidential election. Why? Because he supports Israel.
The #AbandonBiden campaign officially began earlier in December, led by Muslim leaders in swing states like Michigan, Minnesota and Arizona, who disapproved of Biden’s support for Israel’s counterattacks against Hamas. The counterattacks have come at the cost of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian lives.
Now, the coalition intends to expand the pressure campaign to all 50 states.
“We will save America from itself, by punishing Biden at the ballot box,” said lead organizer Jaylani Hussein in a statement.
Self-awareness rating: Zero.
Honestly, the chutzpah of these people (yes, my use of a Yiddish term was deliberate) thinking that they could "save America from itself." Plenty of Americans feel differently, including your humble correspondent; honestly, the least of the current GOP field would be preferable to another term of Joe Biden, or even one term of his understudy.
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The group isn't completely obtuse; they do understand our two-party system, and that their efforts may well help elect a GOP candidate.
“There is a likelihood that our votes may weaken the Democrats that the Republicans may win,” Hussein said. “We’re not fools about that.”
The #AbandonBiden campaign is willing to take that risk, he said: “We will risk an unknown four years of Trump.”
You've likely heard the phrase, "Politics make strange bedfellows." The idea that a Muslim activist group may well campaign to help Donald Trump regain the White House - or to see Ron DeSantis or Nikki Haley elected - well, those are strange bedfellows indeed. Not only are the #AbandonBiden campaign members working in unintentional alliance with the GOP, but they are also adding to the woes of Democrats, who are already worried about third-party challenges to the incumbent.
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What's interesting about this is, that by most standards, President Biden's support for Israel has been rather tepid. The Biden Administration has repeatedly cautioned Israel to minimize civilian casualties in Gaza (Israel's Hamas foes show no such compunctions) but, on the other hand, Biden has side-stepped Congress to send $147 million in military support to Israel.
President Biden, while he is favored to be the Democratic nominee at the moment, has grown visibly weaker and more befuddled in recent months. RealClearPolling, the survey arm of RealClearPolitics, at present, shows Joe Biden polling behind all three of the top GOP candidates in the averages of recent polls (although in the case of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the lead is very narrow:)
Any third-party candidate that the #AbandonBiden campaign is likely to throw their support behind will only tip the odds further in favor of whomever the Republican candidate ends up being. Given the likely outcome of their efforts, all I can say to the #AbandonBiden campaign is, "Bravo! Keep up the good work, and may your efforts bear fruit!"
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