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Representative Dingell is Right: Not Voting for Biden is the Worst Thing for the Middle East and Arab and Muslim-Americans
No matter what Hamas-supporter Rashida Tlaib claims, her anti-Biden campaign only helps one person: Donald J. Trump, and he’s the worst enemy Muslims and Arabs have ever seen in an American President
Representative Debbie Dingell is right, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib is dangerously wrong.
Tlaib urged Michigan Democrats to vote “uncommitted” in yesterday’s primary, and around 12–13% did just that. (In 2012, 11% voted the same when President Obama ran for renomination, so the campaign was no exactly a huge success, though the message should be heard and addressed.)
I believe that President Biden is handling the Gaza War as well as any President could, and far better than Trump ever could. That’s why the Tlaib campaign to deny votes to Biden makes no sense. The only alternative to a Biden second term is a Trump second term, and it’s beyond comprehension that anyone sympathetic to Arab or Muslim Americans would want that! Trump tried to ban Muslims from America, legitimized Israeli annexations and illegal settlements, and tied the GOP and Likud by their umbilical…