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The Guardian - US
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Malaika Jabali

Almost 50,000 Wisconsin voters just told Biden to stop the Gaza war. Will he listen?

Voting booths in a public building. Each one has white posterboard propped up on three sides, on blue-painted metal rolly carts.
‘As of Wednesday afternoon, Wisconsin’s “uninstructed” vote tally was more than twice Biden’s 2020 win margin.’ Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

This Tuesday, more than 48,000 people defied cold, rainy weather to register protest votes in the Wisconsin Democratic primary against the Biden administration’s unrelenting support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in Wisconsin by an excruciatingly narrow margin of victory of about 21,000 votes. As of Wednesday afternoon, Wisconsin’s “uninstructed” vote tally – the equivalent of the “uncommitted” campaign that Arab Americans launched in Michigan – was 48,093 votes, more than twice Biden’s 2020 win margin.

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