Gretchen Whitmer responds to calls by some Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ in Michigan’s primary on Tuesday

Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor, pushed back on calls to not vote for Joe Biden over his handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict, saying on Sunday that could help Trump get re-elected.

“It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that any vote that’s not cast for Joe Biden supports a second Trump term,” she said on Sunday during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union. “A second Trump term would be devastating. Not just on fundamental rights, not just on our democracy here at home, but also when it comes to foreign policy. This was a man who promoted a Muslim ban.”

Whitmer, who is a co-chair of Biden’s 2024 campaign, also said she wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to the protest vote.

Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat who is the only Palestinian-American serving in Congress, urged Democrats last week to vote “uncommitted” in Michigan’s 27 February primary.

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    9 months ago

    Have you watched him speak?

    I have, yeah. He has a speech impediment. He’s had it his entire life. That’s not confusion.

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      9 months ago

      As someone with an actual speech impediment I’ve just started blocking people who say a childhood stutter can reappear 60 years later and cause you to mix up names and just go blank, but never actually stutter.

      I just can’t believe anyone used logic to get there.

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        9 months ago

        I can’t believe you’ve never mixed up names, gone blank, or had something re-appear in a high-stress moment of your life.

        I cna’t believe that you can watch him from 20 years ago, and not see exactly the same kind of verbal gaffes then that he has now. But I guess if you only see what you want to see, then that’s on you.