The Florida delegate who unfurled a protest banner during President Joe Biden’s speech that read “Stop Arming Israel” told NOTUS that she wasn’t allowed on the convention floor the next night for the roll call vote, delegates’ most important event of the week.
Nadia Ahmad, a delegate from Florida who cast a present ballot, was hit on the head with one of the hundreds of long ‘We Love Joe’ signs by a man behind her, a video of the convention floor shows.
The next morning, when Ahmad, a Muslim woman who wears a hijab, went to pick up her access passes to the convention floor – as delegates are required to daily – there was no floor badge available to her, she told NOTUS. She was relegated to a separate section away from the Florida delegation for guests without floor access, Ahmad said.