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The whole thing is so weird. I can’t even think of a noun or a well-known term to describe what she’s doing. It’s a liberal performative gesture. She provides zero context and she doesn’t explain a thing. She merely says “vote undecided”. MSNBC adds the clip to their Youtube upload and the video description is similarly vague. The anchor mentions Israel but he too provides no context. Then the interviewee talking head appears. He’s my favorite. He starts talking and even though he’s an actual fucking reporter - he knows that he too is not supposed to provide any context. So he doesn’t.
It’s an ethical and moral failure by Biden but the video makes it more like politics as normal with a disagreement on some policy issue. It’s a fucking SNL sketch titled “Talking about Israel but not talking about Israel”. Americans coming across this video who haven’t been paying attention to this stuff (which is most Americans) would be saying… What? How? Huh? Why?
She merely says “vote undecided”.
If Michigan is anything like Texas, pollsters won’t normally count write in candidates or blanks, so marking the official undecided box is the only way to show group objection to a race. Still performative, but there’s a logic to the spinelessness.
