Half a million voters protest Biden’s Gaza stance
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With results now in from this week’s primaries, the total vote for “uncommitted” options on state ballots stands at 530,502. An opposition inside the Democratic Party, the Uncommitted National Movement, has begun coordinating various efforts in a number of states, according to The Nation of April 5.

Nearly 50,000 Wisconsin voters (8.3% of the total) chose “uninstructed” — the state’s version of “uncommitted” — in their April 2 Democratic primary as part of a growing campaign in the United States to use the ballot to protest U.S. support for [the neocolonial] massacre of people in Gaza.

“We more than DOUBLED our goal!” wrote Listen to Wisconsin, the group behind the effort in that state, on Facebook. This count is more than double the amount by which Biden beat Trump in Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.

On March 5, some 45,000 voters in Minnesota cast their vote for “uncommitted.” This represented 19% of all ballots cast in that state’s Democratic primary.

In the spring primary season, results similar to those in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota took root in Connecticut, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Colorado.

While communities of Arab origin have shown an intense interest in these “uncommitted” campaigns, these coalitions have been multi‐ethnic, multi‐generational, and multi‐religious.