Activist Natalia Latif tapes a Vote Uncommitted sign on a podium during an uncommitted vote election night gathering in Dearborn. REUTERS
A backlash looms for President Biden on Super Tuesday, when at least half of the states participating in presidential contests have an “uncommitted” line on their ballot – potentially allowing this week’s far-left voter revolt in Michigan to snowball, experts told The Post.
Activists who launched the successful Michigan campaign have their sights on a slew of Super Tuesday primaries next week, including Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Maine and Alabama — all of which have “uncommitted” or write-in slots on their Dem primary ballots.
“Biden is not going to duplicate his 2020 coalition,” said veteran Dem strategist James Carville, noting that black voters are also among the party’s disaffected. “It’s across the spectrum,” he said of grassroots frustration with the sitting president.
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President Biden is facing a revolt of uncommitted voters. REUTERS
College kids joined Muslim-Americans voting for “uncommitted” in the Michigan Democratic primary to protest President Biden’s support for Israel. The movement drew 101,102 votes –13.3% of the total Democratic electorate — away from Biden.
In Tuesday’s Michigan primary, 17.2% of voters in Washtenaw County, home of the University of Michigan, marked “uncommitted” to show their disdain for the president, an even higher percentage than the 16.8% racked up in the Muslim stronghold of Wayne County.
“They’re absolutely not some voting bloc to take for granted,” lefty consultant and former AOC aide Corbin Trent said of the uncommitted voters. “Biden is a general election threat to Democrats.”
The Biden campaign has taken the Michigan results in stride — for now. “That message has been received,” campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu told NPR on Thursday.
The none-of-the-above option is being pushed in part by Our Revolution, the political nonprofit that spun off from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
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Former President Trump will bitterly contest states like Michigan where Biden’s coalition is cracking Getty Images
“Biden must realign with his voter base and … change course in Gaza,” Our Revolution executive director Joseph Geevarghese said Wednesday as he cheered Michigan’s results.
The Dem divide is fueling leftists’ long-term agenda, said GOP analyst Ryan Girdusky.
“There is significant motivation right now on the part of the far left. They feel like they can force Biden’s hand to reconsider his support for Israel,” Girdusky said. “And that is their goal, to fundamentally shift Democrats’ view of Israel as a whole” — even at the price of Biden’s re-election.
Meanwhile, fresh polling indicates that former president Donald Trump could be solidifying the GOP base, despite continued sniping from primary rival Nikki Haley and the long-standing distaste of suburban voters.
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Muslim-Americans and younger voters are turning away from Biden over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, according to reports. Getty Images
“Trump unites Republicans more strongly than Biden unites Democrats,” said James Piereson, a political scientist at the Manhattan Institute, citing the results of this week’s Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, which found Trump leading Biden nationally by a 6-point margin.
The survey of 2,022 registered voters found that 90% of Republicans will stick with Trump in the general election, while 82% of Democrats plan to stay in Biden’s camp — with independents splitting 42% to 39% in the GOP’s favor.
“Quite surprisingly, Trump is now the consensus candidate, and Biden the divisive one,” Piereson said.
With most of Tuesday’s Republican contests closed to non-GOP voters, Haley’s campaign, boosted by crossover Democrats and independents, will likely hit the wall this week, he predicted.
“I expect Nikki Haley to drop out after Super Tuesday,” Piereson said. “She has no path forward.”
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