He used to campaign for Biden. Then Gaza happened.
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
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Summary
This week President Biden and former president Donald Trump clinched the nominations for their respective parties. Where do dissatisfied voters go from here? Today, we travel to Michigan to follow a former Biden organizer who wants Biden to lose.
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In 2020, Adam Abusalah wanted to knock Donald Trump out of the White House. These days, he’d take pretty much anyone over Biden. Jesús Rodríguez reports from Michigan.
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| 0:00.0 | Last night President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both secured enough delegates |
| 0:08.8 | to formally clinch the nominations for their respective parties. 2024 is officially clinch Now that the candidates are set, I had a question. |
| 0:24.0 | What happens to the people who have been loudly expressing their discontent with these candidates? |
| 0:30.0 | On the Democrats side, of course, that has meant voting uncommitted, as in very pointedly not voting for Biden in the primary, even though he's been the only viable option. |
| 0:41.0 | There's been all these uncommitted campaigns on the Democratic side to get voters to cast |
| 0:46.6 | these protest votes against Biden, most notably in Michigan and Minnesota and Washington |
| 0:51.6 | we saw this week. And in Michigan... in population students in college campuses. That is Jesus Rodriguez. He reports on |
| 1:05.4 | politics for the Post style section. So I went to Michigan to observe the |
| 1:10.7 | Listen to Michigan movement, which is a grassroots movement to convince a lot of Arab American |
| 1:15.4 | voters and voters in general to vote uncommitted in the Democratic primary. |
| 1:21.6 | I wanted to figure out where it goes from here and |
| 1:23.6 | specifically what is this going to look like in November. I want to talk to this |
| 1:27.2 | one guy, this organizer with Listen to Michigan and his name is |
| 1:30.3 | Adam Abusala. |
| 1:31.3 | How are you, myself? How are you, how are you? |
| 1:34.0 | Congratulations to Mr. I know you work five too well there. |
| 1:37.0 | He's a pretty young organizer there that I had been working with Listen to Michigan. |
| 1:41.0 | He is Palestinian American himself himself and he had been pretty |
| 1:44.9 | fired up about getting people in his own community to vote uncommitted in the |
| 1:49.3 | primary. One of the places where I met Adam was at this election watch party that listened to Michigan organized on election night. |
| 1:57.0 | Biden, what is he in November? |
| 2:00.0 | He's, he's, he's, he's. The thing that interested me the most about Adam was that he had been a Biden organizer in 2020 |
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