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movements in the
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were initiated to target President
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's and Vice President
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's reelection campaigns. After a notable "
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" vote in Michigan, activists sought to replicate the protest in other states. While some activists under Abandon Biden/Abandon Harris argued against supporting the Democratic
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entirely during the
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, others in uncommitted movements led by the
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urged to use uncommitted votes during the presidential primary to pressure the Biden administration to change policies before the presidential election. Both groups overlap and supported each other's goals, to the point of being considered "twin" movements. On July 21, 2024,
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from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Harris as his replacement. The movements were the main opposition to the Biden 2024 presidential campaign and received higher vote totals than many contenders in the
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, including Harris,
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, and
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. Uncommitted votes also achieved a higher percentage of the vote than the 2020 campaign of
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, with only a fraction of the spending. The Uncommitted campaign won 36 delegates in the primaries. The Uncommitted movement received its best results in the Hawaii caucus and the Minnesota primary. Following the Minnesota primary, Minnesota governor
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was sympathetic to the Uncommitted movement. After Biden's withdrawal from the race, the movement demanded Harris, the 2024 presumptive Democratic nominee, to oppose U.S. military aid to Israel, the
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of
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. Harris selected Walz as her running mate on August 6, 2024. By October 2024, Uncommited tend encouraged its supporters to vote for Harris while Abandon Harris endorsed
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.


Ceasefire movement

On January 18, 2024, voters promoting a ceasefire in the
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launched a write-in campaign for "Ceasefire" in the
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. Since incumbent president
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had declined to appear on the ballot due to
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sanctions, with allies instead mounting a write-in campaign, advocates of the ceasefire campaign hoped that the increased focus on the write-in section of election results would send a message. New Hampshire secretary of state
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indicated that these "Ceasefire" votes were tallied. Ultimately, "Ceasefire" received 1,497 votes, or 1.28%.


Uncommitted movements

The uncommitted movements are protest vote movements built around urging voters to write-in or check an uncommitted voting option to protest Biden's support for the Gaza war, and to push for a permanent ceasefire and ending military aide to Israel. The movements aims to "make these changes ahead of the general election or risk losing Democratic voter support".


2024 Michigan Democratic primary

A movement for an uncommitted vote called Listen to Michigan was started by community organizers in Dearborn, including the younger sister to representative
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with a budget of $250,000. The group aimed to use the uncommitted vote during the presidential primary to send a message to the Biden campaign to support a ceasefire, or else lose the presidential election. Both Rashida Tlaib and Dearborn mayor
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endorsed the campaign. Democratic Majority for Israel ran opposition ads against the uncommitted movement, arguing that a vote for uncommitted would represent support for Trump.
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endorsed the uncommitted movement and also helped support outreach for it. The movement was primarily led by a vocal minority of Muslim Americans, Arab Americans, and progressives. Although the campaign aimed originally for 10,000 votes, which was the margin by which Hillary Clinton lost in the 2016 election, which was considered a low vote total historically, the final vote count exceeded it and reach 101,000 votes, or approximately 13.2% of the vote. As a result, the campaign won 2 delegates to send to the
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. While some progressive commentators, such as
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, stated that Biden's actions in Gaza could ultimately lose him the general election, others, including Biden campaign officials, argued that the result matches similar uncommitted movements in
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. In March 2024, Listen to Michigan announced it was expanding into a national operation.


Abandon Biden movement

Abandon Biden was originally started in Minnesota but has since spread to other swing states, with the goal of preventing a second-term Biden presidency. Many in the Abandon Biden movement have argued that Biden cannot undo damages, even if he called for a ceasefire and some within the movement have argued even for voting for Republicans in order to deny Biden a victory and to force both parties to pay attention to their cause, although others said they would never vote for Trump and would instead write a third-party candidate or abstain. The Abandon Biden and Uncommitted campaigns were described as “twin movements” which were overlapping. Khalid Turaani, one of the leaders of the Abandon Biden movement, stated that "If you want to bet on brushing off this movement, good luck in
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... We want to make sure that Joe Biden is going to be a one-term president, and we’ll make sure that his loss will be coupled with a disgrace of the genocide in Gaza." During his campaign, Trump notably suggested
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in Gaza, deporting refugees from Gaza, revoking visas of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, and reinstituting a " Muslim ban", which many Democrats have argued would allow them to win Muslim votes. In addition, although Biden won many swing states by small margins, the Muslim American and Arab American proportion in most of those states constitutes a very small proportion of the electorate. Some commentators argued that small margins of victory in swing states may suggest that the groups could have outsized effects. Michigan is noted as among the swing states with more than 200,000 Muslim voters, and 300,000 Arab Americans, well exceeding Biden's vote margin in 2020, and some have pointed out that disapproval with the conflict could be spreading to other groups such as youth and progressives. An opinion video piece argued in the aftermath of Biden's first debate and subsequent calls to withdraw from the race that Biden's biggest issue was still engagement from Arab and Muslim voters in swing states such as Michigan.


2024 presidential primaries


Primary elections

After the Michigan result, organizers in several states launched similar campaigns, even though most states do not have a dedicated "uncommitted" option, which can make organizing a protest vote more difficult. Minnesota organizers launched a protest vote movement for "uncommitted" with only four days before the primary. The movement was able to improve on Michigan's vote share, winning over 18% of the vote and 11 delegates. After the 2024 Minnesota Democratic presidential primary, Minnesota governor
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took a sympathetic view toward those doing so to protest President Biden's handling of the war in Gaza, calling them "civically engaged". Walz said: "This issue is a humanitarian crisis. They have every right to be heard. These folks are asking for a change in course, they're asking for more pressure to be put on. ... You can hold competing things: that Israel has the right to defend itself, and the atrocities of October 7 are unacceptable, but Palestinian civilians being caught in this... has got to end." Walz also said he supports a ceasefire in Gaza. In
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, where no actual candidates made the ballot other than Biden, 12% voted for "no preference", which some sources attributed to groups protesting Biden's support for Israel. Several observes noted that although the movement had "spread to other base Democratic voters" besides Muslim Americans, results from Super Tuesday suggested the Democratic Party "continues to coalesce around Biden". A Black Muslim group called the Black Muslim Leadership Council worked towards supporting the uncommitted movement but argued they would not necessarily abandon Biden during the presidential election. In
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, the uncommitted vote achieved 455 votes, or nearly 29% of the vote total, which net the movement 6 delegates. This occurred despite that Hawaii did not appear to have any specific organized uncommitted movement organization. In
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, a coalition of multi-ethnic, multi-faith progressives launched a Listen to Georgia Coalition to replicate a similar protest movement. Because Georgia does not release write-in candidate results, a local news organization looked at blank ballots instead, finding 3% of Democratic primary voters had submitted blank ballots within 5 counties. An effort was organized in
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, where uncommitted achieved slightly over 9% of the vote. In Kentucky, some of the 17.9% uncommitted vote was attributed to the protest vote movement. Rhode Island sent at least 1 uncommitted delegate. A "Vote No Preference" coalition in Massachusetts focused on pushing a No Preference vote. A similar effort had been replicated in
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, and other states; however, few races after Super Tuesday have dedicated uncommitted options, and those which did not had few progressive, Muslim, or Arab American votes.


Delegate votes

After Biden released delegates, following his decision to withdraw from the race, some uncommitted delegates held endorsements for Harris unless demands for a ceasefire were met. On August 4, 2024, twenty-nine
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delegates from eight states took part in a virtual roll call where they voted for Palestinian victims over Harris. On the second day of the
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, during the in-person ceremonial roll call of delegates, dozens of delegates voted "Present" as a protest vote. Some of these delegates publicly expressed they voted this way to express frustration with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the war in Gaza. The delegates who voted "Present" had their votes read out loud by their state delegations during the roll call, notably except for the Kentucky Democratic Party.


Impact


Impact during primary process

Some argued that as a result of the uncommitted movement,
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began calling for a 6-week ceasefire in the region. Because the uncommitted option received varied votes in each state during the primary, analysts found it "hard to compare apples-to-apples" the impact of the movement, especially with regards to past historical uncommitted vote results. Although Biden supporters and some analysts generally suggested that the uncommitted vote was similar to historical patterns, some progressives including
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argued that the pattern of the vote suggested "particular groups of our coalition that are upset". Some uncommitted results in states with historic Blue Dog Democrat populations (for example, North Carolina and Kentucky) were attributed to conservative
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s (i.e. Democrats in Name Only) who vote uncommitted during the primary but had become Republican (reflecting the Southern strategy of the 1960s) and would never have voted Democrat during a general election. Some analysts argued that as the groups who voted uncommitted were in Biden's base, they would eventually vote for him in the general election, although the possibility of his base fracturing before the election remained. Much of the uncommitted base seemed to be made up of young college students and Arab Americans. Young people, the group most likely to support Palestinians, did not appear to have the Gaza war as their main concern in many opinion polls. By May 2024, several progressive groups critical of Biden's Gaza policy began anti-Trump campaigns that were noted to indirectly help Biden. ''The New York Times'' said it was "one of the clearest signs yet that at least some of Mr. Biden's critics on the left will still work to stop Mr. Trump — even if they are lukewarm on the incumbent president." On October 8, Uncommitted encouraged its supporters to vote for Harris, arguing a second Trump presidency would be much worse for Palestinians. The uncommitted vote revealed a vulnerability amongst young voters caused by Biden's policy on Israel and Palestine. The movement received higher vote totals than many contenders in the
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, including Harris (the eventual presumptive Democratic nominee in 2024),
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, and
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. Uncommitted votes also achieved a higher percentage of the vote than the 2020 campaign of
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, with only a fraction of the spending. The Uncommitted campaign won 36 delegates in the primaries. On July 21, 2024, Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. Former New Jersey state representative Sadaf Jeffer said the vote "shows what many have been saying, that
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is significant dissatisfaction with President Biden's approach to Gaza. This is a constituency Democratic Party leadership and the Biden administration must engage."


Withdrawal of Joe Biden

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as her running mate. By October 2024, Uncommited encouraged its supporters to vote for Harris, arguing a second Trump presidency would be worse for Palestinians. Lexi Zeidan, a
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and co-founder of Uncommited, said how another Trump presidency would dismantle "any pathway to Palestinian self-determination", and concluded: "It's clear
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will be doing everything in his power to get Trump elected. And we have to do everything in our power to stop him." On the other hand, Abandon Harris endorsed
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candidate
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, who said she would end all military support to Israel if elected, and the group said that it was "confronting two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it".


Loss of Kamala Harris

Following the loss of Harris, many in the movement felt vindication. Significant portions of the electorate in
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, an Arab American majority city, did not vote for Harris.
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who voted for Trump, and were thus pivotal in helping him win the three key states of the
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(Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin being Harris's clearer path for a narrow win in the Electoral College), were subsequently upset that Trump nominated pro-Israel cabinet picks, including
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(a staunch supporter of Israel who said he would not call for a ceasefire in Gaza and believed Israel should destroy "every element of Hamas", calling them "vicious animals") as Secretary of State,
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(a former Arkansas governor and staunch pro-Israel conservative who expressed his support for the
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and called a
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"unworkable") as the next
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, and Republican Representative
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(who called the
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a " cesspool of antisemitism" for its condemnation of deaths in Gaza) to serve as the
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. Rabiul Chowdhury, who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania, said that "Trump won because of us and we're not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others."


2024 presidential election

During the
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, an August 2024 survey published by the
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(CAIR) found that 29% of Muslim voters planned to vote for the Greens candidate
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because of the Gaza war. In Michigan, 40% of Muslim voters supported Stein, 18% supported Trump, and 12% supported Harris. CAIR's final election poll, published on November 1, showed that nationwide among Muslims, 42.3% planned to vote for Stein, 41% for Harris, and 9.8% for Trump. As of November 15, 2024, the Stein ticket garnered 751,170 votes, the second highest of her three campaigns, beating her 2012 run but falling short of her 2016 bid. This was the first time since the
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that the Green Party placed third place in the popular vote. Nationally, exit polling from CAIR found that 53% of Muslim-American voters supported Stein. In Michigan, 59% of Muslim-American voters supported Stein. In Maryland, 81% of Muslim-American voters supported her. Notably, Stein won 18.4% of the vote in
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, 15.1% of the vote in
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, 15% of the vote in
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, New Jersey, and 9% of the vote in
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.


Uncommitted results by state


See also

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,
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of anti-Gaza war independent MPs elected in the
2024 United Kingdom general election The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. The opposition Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, won a lan ...
* The Muslim Vote, British pressure group established in December 2023


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