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Today, Explained

The protest vote against Biden

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Michigan’s primary today will test President Biden’s viability with Muslim voters amid the war in Gaza. One Arab American leader says the community is abandoning Biden and looking for alternatives — Donald Trump might be one of them. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, Michigan's primary is today, and Michigan's got a lot of Muslims and Arab Americans,

0:07.1

and a lot of them are reconsidering their support of President Joe Biden in light of the Israel Hamas war.

0:14.0

We will not cast a vote for the person who greenlighted the genocide of our people.

0:21.0

We reached out to an Arab American activist to take the temperature and he had something surprising to say.

0:26.2

So they are looking at alternatives and they are hearing alternatives. That's not surprising.

0:30.6

Alternatives, maybe Jill Stein, maybe little RFK, maybe not voting at all.

0:35.0

at all.

0:36.0

And there are those in the community that are seriously listening and engaging with the

0:39.3

Trump team in an effort to win over Arab and Muslim support.

0:43.0

So don't be surprised if those efforts actually do work

0:46.0

while the Biden administration continues to take our votes for granted.

0:50.0

Biden's not going to lose the primary,

0:52.0

but coming up on today explained, we're going to ask what Michigan might tell us about the general.

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