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

Party members in key swing states say they won't re-elect a president who enables the continued Israeli bombardment

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.

Malaika Jabali is a 2024 New America fellow, journalist and author of It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On