On Monday, the president’s reelection campaign dispatched a co-chair, former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, to Michigan to plead its case. It did not go well.
Landrieu was reportedly set upon by embittered activists who presented the Biden White House with an ultimatum: withdraw its support for Israel and its goal of neutralizing Hamas or they walk, possibly taking Michigan’s coveted electoral votes with them. To this, Landrieu confessed that the administration’s hands were tied. “This conflict is going to be a long conflict,” he said. “I don’t expect that it’s going to end anytime soon.” Landrieu’s audience was unimpressed. Along with at least 39 state and local officials, Biden’s Michigan-based critics plan to support an effort to protest the administration endorsed by Representative Rashida Tlaib by voting “uncommitted” in the state’s Democratic primary.
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