Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday
Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor, pushed back on calls to not vote for Joe Biden over his handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying on Sunday that could help Trump get re-elected.
“It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that any vote that’s not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term,” she said on Sunday during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “A second Trump term would be devastating. Not just on fundamental rights, not just on our democracy here at home, but also when it comes to foreign policy. This was a man who promoted a Muslim ban.”
Whitmer, who is a co-chair of Biden’s 2024 campaign, also said she wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to the protest vote.
Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat who is the only Palestinian-American serving in Congress, urged Democrats last week to vote “uncommitted” in Michigan’s 27 February primary.
Well yes, in a conflict where he gets orders from Putin to not help, he of course doesn’t go to war. But his general attitude to war really isn’t a secret. That dude nearly started a war with Iran in his first term for example.
No! One candidate has already tried to overthrow an election he lost, the other didn’t and has been very outspoken for his support of democracy. If that’s really your take away from that then I really have no idea what you did in the last decade. You certainly didn’t payed attention to what’s going on.
it’s not because he gets orders from putin. it’s because he sees the writing on the wall that the war is over and he’s trying to get on the right side of history. the war will inevitably end with russia seizing territory. once that happens he can say “i told you so” and seem like he’s a peacemaker.
and he can say “why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ukraine when they are going to lose anyway?” or “why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars while americans are struggling to make ends meet”? or “why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a war that is actively raising inflation across the globe, hurting americans?”
he doesn’t actually give a shit one way or the other - trump has no ideals or principles. but he’s betting that the public opinion against the war will sour soon. and if you look at the polls, that’s what is happening. americans are slowly losing their appetite for the ukraine war (republicans at a faster rate, but we’re seeing democrats too get war fatigue)
his anti-war stance is one of political opportunism. other politicians would do the same if they weren’t beholden to lockheed martin and friends. trump doesn’t give a shit about anyone and is willing to throw anyone under the bus and that works to his advantage
the assassination of Soleimani was honestly criminal and stupid and basically ruined any chances for rapprochement with Iran and to top it off Trump killed the Iran nuclear deal. so yeah, i understand and agree with you here
but compare and contrast that situation with what’s going on right now. we’re 100x closer to war with Iran than we were under Trump. we’ve intercepted hundreds of missiles and missiles from iranian backed regimes. americans have already died from these attacks. we had to send two aircraft carriers to the middle east - something we didn’t even do during the invasion of Iraq
i’m not denying that he tried to overthrow the election.
but what is the difference to me if I can’t vote versus I can only vote for one guy? there’s no functional difference. either way, i have no voice. in that case, maybe it’s better it be trump because it’s more honest. we’re becoming an oligarchic dictatorship regardless of who we elect