{"id":2212445,"date":"2024-04-03T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-protesters-celebrate-significant-votes-against-biden-in-tuesday-primaries\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:23","slug":"progressive-protesters-celebrate-significant-votes-against-biden-in-tuesday-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-protesters-celebrate-significant-votes-against-biden-in-tuesday-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive activists applaud key wins over Biden in recent primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-protesters-celebrate-significant-votes-against-biden-in-tuesday-primaries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2212445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Progressive groups celebrated protest votes against President \u2064Joe Biden\u200b in Tuesday&#8217;s primaries. Democratic voters chose &#8220;uninstructed&#8221; options in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island,\u200d with Wisconsin having the highest protest count at 48,000 voters. Dissatisfaction with \u2063Biden&#8217;s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict seemed \u200dto drive this protest \u2063movement. The actions signal a call \u200cfor significant policy changes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Several <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>progressive groups <\/a>celebrated the successes of protest votes against President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-primaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>several primaries <\/a>on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Democratic voters cast their ballots for the \u201cuninstructed\u201d or \u201cuncommitted\u201d choices in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/connecticut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Connecticut<\/a>, Wisconsin, and <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rhode-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rhode Island.<\/a> Wisconsin saw the highest protest count, with 48,000 voters participating. The voters were likely rejecting Biden over his response to the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Wisconsin alone, nearly 48,000 voters cast an unrestricted ballot in the Democratic presidential primary, far surpassing campaign goals and significantly exceeding President Biden\u2019s margin of victory over Trump in the 2020 general election,\u201d the progressive group Our Revolution said in a news release. \u201cSimilarly, in Rhode Island and Connecticut, 15% and 12% of Democratic primary voters marked their ballots as \u2018uncommitted,\u2019 further amplifying the call for a bold redirection in policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Connecticut, just under 8,000 votes, or 11.5% of the total, went to \u201cuncommitted,\u201d and in Rhode Island, another 4,000 votes, or 14.9%, went toward \u201cuncommitted.\u201d The protest movement also saw notable support last month on Super Tuesday. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Yesterday, over 47,000 voters in Wisconsin went to the polls and voted Uninstructed.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by a little over 20,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>This president must decide if loyalty to Netanyahu is worth delivering Trump the election in November.<\/p>\n<p>He must decide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Nina Turner (@ninaturner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1775506692911882537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis president must decide if loyalty to Netanyahu is worth delivering Trump the election in November,\u201d progressive activist Nina Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ninaturner\/status\/1775506692911882537?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>posted to X<\/a>. \u201cHe must decide.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>President Donald Trump <\/a>also saw a weaker showing in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Wisconsin<\/a> after former South Carolina Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nikki-haley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Nikki Haley <\/a>received slightly more than 76,000 votes even though she is no longer in the race. The 76,000 votes amounted to 12.8% of the Republican votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>A Biden campaign official weighed in, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ammarmufasa\/status\/1775535736059502912?s=20\">claiming<\/a> Trump was Tuesday\u2019s \u201cbiggest loser\u201d because of Haley\u2019s support in Wisconsin.<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ron-desantis\"> Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R-FL), who long ago dropped out of the presidential race, garnered 3.3% of the vote in the swing state.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to the Biden campaign for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>The votes come after Israel accidentally killed seven aid workers in an airstrike on Monday, including one U.S.-Canadian dual citizen. Israel has accepted responsibility for the airstrike and said it is reviewing the situation to make sure it does not occur again. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the respective votes against them, Trump and Biden still won their respective primaries in all states.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump and Biden are their respective parties\u2019 presumptive nominees for the White House. It remains to be seen whether the protest votes will carry over to the general election.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates will formally secure the nominations at their party\u2019s conferences this summer in Chicago and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive groups cheered protest votes against President Biden in Tuesday primaries. Democratic voters chose &#8220;uninstructed&#8221; or &#8220;uncommitted&#8221; in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island. Wisconsin had 48,000 protest votes. Voters likely expressed dissatisfaction with Biden&#8217;s policies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":2212446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24094592876039.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24094592876039.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}