Organizers behind the pro-Palestinian protest vote movement in the Democratic presidential primary are expanding their efforts into a larger campaign aimed at organizing a bloc of voters that, they say, will be crucial for President Joe Biden and his allies this fall.
Leaders of the Michigan-based group Listen to Michigan, now renamed the Uncommitted National Movement, said Monday their last big target for protest votes will come during next month’s presidential primary in Wisconsin when Democratic primary voters have the option to check “uninstructed delegation” in the presidential candidate preference section.
“Our intention is to create a Midwest that is explicitly pro-Palestinian,” Abbas Alawieh, political strategist for the organized uncommitted movement, said on a press call. “We’re looking to Wisconsin because Wisconsin is another key swing state here in the Midwest that President Biden needs to win if he is going to prevent Donald Trump from retaking the presidency.”