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Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

Will Michigan’s “Uncommitted” Movement Spread on Super Tuesday

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

WNYC Studios

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4.4675 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The latest national political news, including whether the "uncommitted" voters will become a bigger problem for President Biden, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, March 4th.

0:14.0

Good morning, everyone, on this Monday before Super Tuesday. Why do they call it Super Tuesday?

0:19.8

Because the following states will hold their

0:21.8

primaries tomorrow. Are you ready? Here we go. Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine,

0:27.8

Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.

0:34.7

I memorized that. No, I didn't. And which one does not belong? American Samoa,

0:40.7

the only place that's not a state, will also vote 15 out of the 50 states plus the one territory

0:47.1

all tomorrow, Super Tuesday. And you would think there would be more at stake for the challenger,

0:53.3

Donald Trump, right, who's losing 30 to 40 percent to Nikki Haley in state after state, not for President Joe Biden, who's got no competitive opponent, but there may actually be more at stake for the president tomorrow. Why? Well, back in December, Biden said this about the Israeli assault on Gaza.

1:13.6

It has most of the world supporting it, but they're starting to lose that support by the

1:20.5

indiscriminate bombing that takes place, Biden said in December.

1:25.3

Now the same thing may be true of him. As things in Gaza get worse and worse,

1:30.4

especially for Biden not threatening to cut off the military aid that enables the war is the way

1:36.7

the war is being fought. So this isn't just Netanyahu's war. It's Biden's war too, as far as more

1:43.6

and more people are concerned with the tens of

1:46.4

thousands of deaths plus starvation and desperation afflicting nearly all two million gossans

1:52.1

and getting worse. So you know that 100,000 people in the Michigan primary voted uncommitted

1:58.2

rather than vote for Biden last week. Tomorrow could be an important test of how much power the uncommitted rather than vote for Biden last week, tomorrow could be an important

2:02.0

test of how much power the uncommitted movement has. So while Biden is seen by many is doing

2:09.4

nothing to stop the way the war is being fought, even how justified it may have been from the start because of the horrible October

2:19.4

7th attack by Hamas. Maybe this is why Vice President Harris spoke in the strongest terms yet

2:26.4

about the situation in a speech he gave yesterday. And the Israeli government must do more to

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