President Biden refused to admit in a recent interview that it was a “widely shared sentiment” that he was allowing a “genocide” in Gaza in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks.
MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart confronted Biden with a quote from a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Arab-American Fury at Biden.”
“As bad as Mr. Trump's rhetoric was, and for imposing a travel ban on five Muslim countries, he was not actively overseeing or weaponizing a genocide,” Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on Islamic Relations. Americans. , he said in an interview with New York Times opinion columnist Charles Blow.
'UNCOMMITTED' PROTEST VOTE AGAINST BID ATTRACTS TENS OF THOUSANDS ON SUPER TUESDAY
President Biden refused to admit in a recent interview that it was a “widely shared sentiment” that he was allowing a “genocide” in Gaza following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. (Getty Images)
“What is your response to that widely shared sentiment?” Capehart said, quoting Blow's column.
“It's not something that's widely shared,” Biden told Capehart. “You make judgments that you are not capable of making. That's not what all those people said. What they said was that they are very upset, and I don't blame them for being upset. There are families there, there are people who are dying and they want them something is done about it. And they say, 'Joe, do something, do something.'”
“But the idea that everyone thinks it's genocide is a different situation,” he added.
“I can completely understand it, can't you?” Biden asked Capehart.
“It's understandable [why] “They feel that way,” Biden said of voters who may have family members who have been affected by the war in Gaza. “And that's why I'm trying to do everything I can to try to stop it.”
'UNCOMMITTED' DEMOCRATIC VOTERS CREATE NEGATIVE PRESS FOR BID AS PROGRESSIVES PROTEST SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
About 100,000 Democrats voted “uncommitted” in last month's primary due to anger at Biden over his Middle East policies, with strong support in Detroit, Michigan, especially as a city with a large Arab-American population. (Joe Biden in MSNBC screenshot)
Capehart also questioned Biden in that exchange about his plans to visit Michigan as another stop in a swing state before the 2024 presidential election. The host raised the issue of tens of thousands of voters who marked “uncommitted” in protest against the president.
About 100,000 Democrats voted “not committed” in the primary last month due to anger against Biden for his Middle East policies, with strong support in Detroit, Michigan, especially as a city with a large Arab-American population.
Far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., also supported uncommitted voting in her state last month. On Election Day, the anti-Israel politician said she was “proud” to oppose Biden.
“I was proud today go in and take out a Democratic ballot and vote without committing. We must protect our democracy, we must ensure that our government is focused on us, on the people,” Tlaib said. “When 74% of Democrats in Michigan support a ceasefire, but President Biden won't listen to us, this is the way we can use our democracy to say listen.
“Let's listen right now to the families who have been directly affected, but let's also listen to the majority of Americans who say enough is enough. No more wars, no more use of our dollars to finance genocide,” he said.
Biden won Michigan by about 155,000 votes in 2020, retaking the state after Trump narrowly won it in 2016. Trump's victory there was the first by a Republican since George HW Bush in 1988.
Fox News' Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
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