Rashida Tlaib tells Michigan Dems to vote 'uncommitted' to oppose Joe Biden

On Saturday, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) urged Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the upcoming Michigan presidential primary in a show of protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel against Hamas.

In a statement posted on X by the Listen to Michigan campaign, Tlaib said, "It is important as you all know, to not only march against the genocide. Not only making sure we are calling our members of congress, and local electeds, and passing resolutions all throughout our country. It is also important to create a voting bloc."

"Something that is a bullhorn to say enough is enough," she continued. "We don't want a country that supports wars and bombs and destruction. We want to support life. We want to stand up for every single life killed in Gaza."

"This is the way you can raise our voices, to make us even more visible," the congresswoman noted. "Right now, we feel completely neglected, neglected and just unseen by our government. If you want us to be louder, then come here and vote uncommitted."

According to its website, the Listen to Michigan campaign has not supported the President's actions in Gaza, which has consisted of funding for humantarian aid and support for Israel's war on terrorists.

They have urged him to support a ceasefire. "Right now he’s not representing the vast majority of Democrats who want a ceasefire and an end to his funding of Israel’s war in Gaza," it said.

The group notes that former President Donald Trump won Michigan by about 10,000 votes in 2016 and it is attempting to show they will be the difference in his re-election bid. "He’s not representing the young people who put him in office and turned out in the midterms — and are now out protesting his policies in the streets," it adds.

In January, Tlaib was one of two members of Congress who voted against a bill that bars Hamas terrorists from being allowed to enter the United States. The bills stated that any person who "participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated" the October 7 attack on Israel or attacks after that, "shall be ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws."

Tlaib was also censored by the House of Representatives in November for antisemitic comments in response to Israel's war against Hamas where she attacked Joe Biden using the phrase "from the river to the sea."