Democ­rats urged to leave bal­lot blank in rebuke of Biden by Work­ing Fam­i­lies Par­ty

Democrats urged to leave ballot blank in rebuke of Biden by Working Families Party

A third-par­ty group is urg­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic vot­ers to leave the bal­lot blank dur­ing the Empire State’s pri­ma­ry in protest of Pres­i­dent Joe Biden.
The New York Work­ing Fam­i­lies Par­ty announced Fri­day after­noon that it is “encour­ag­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic vot­ers to #LeaveIt­Blank to pres­sure Pres­i­dent Biden to use his full lever­age to end the war on Gaza” ahead of the Mon­day pri­ma­ry in New York.
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This lat­est move is part of a cam­paign against the pres­i­dent, whom left-lean­ing mem­bers of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty have lam­bast­ed over his han­dling of the Israel-Hamas war in the Mid­dle East.
The “Aban­don Biden” move­ment gained trac­tion dur­ing Michigan’s pri­ma­ry last month, where more than 101,000 peo­ple cast an “uncom­mit­ted” bal­lot. The move­ment then spread to some Super Tues­day states and be …