The View co-host Sunny Hostin issued a stark warning to President Joe Biden on Wednesday that the protest votes against him in states like Michigan and Wisconsin should not go unnoticed.
Voting blocs including young voters, Black voters, and Muslim voters are expressing their dissatisfaction with the president’s administration by casting votes against Biden in their states’ primary elections. While some have said this doesn’t mean Biden won’t have their vote in the general election, it is a blunt reminder that Biden will need their votes in November or key swing states he won in 2020 could go for former President Donald Trump.
While discussing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments on The Tonight Show telling voters unhappy with their candidate choices to “get over yourself,” co-host Sara Haines pointed out that Trump would do nothing to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But Hostin explained why it just wasn’t that simple:
But, you know, I don’t think that you can tell people whose families have been killed, whole entire lines of their families have been murdered, over 32,000 people, women and children the majority, that, “Well, but if Trump wins, it would be [worse].” The problem here is that they are making themselves known. Michigan has about 200,000 Muslim voters. They are losing their family members, and the United States, the UN has found is complicit in that. And that is because the United States sends $3.8 billion worth of aid to Israel, and that also includes arming them. Social scientists have found that if the United States stopped providing that aid, the war would be over — let me just finish this — the war would be over in three days.
Co-host Joy Behar interrupted to say that the war would be over if Hamas released the hostages before Hostin continued:
But the issue is those votes will matter. And I think Joe Biden is listening, because now at the UN, my understanding is that while they have voted for a ceasefire, the United States, instead of vetoing that vote, they just abstained. And so there is movement. I think that pressure is working. And I think if you have any shred of humanity, you must understand that those people are losing their entire families, lines and lines of families. And it’s a humanitarian crisis.
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