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The leaders of progressive groups focused on mobilizing young voters are warning President Joe Biden that his handling of the war in Gaza could depress turnout in a demographic that’s already notoriously difficult to energize on Election Day.

"We write to you to issue a very stark and unmistakable warning: you and your Administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.

“We mobilized the record youth turnout in 2020 that pushed your ticket over the finish line... Many of us worked to provide the critical source of support for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections that prevented the Red Wave.

"Young people are a cornerstone of a winning Democratic coalition, and the vast majority of young people in this country are rightfully horrified by the atrocities committed with our tax dollars, with your support, and our nation’s military backing.

“We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”

Signers include the heads of groups like March for Our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change, and the Sunrise Movement.

A New York Times-Siena College poll of five swing states found that among voters under 30, who lean heavily Democratic, just 5% “strongly approve” of how Biden is doing his job and 25% “somewhat approve.”

Literally has a lower approval rating with the most Democratic generation than the most Republican generation. Zero chance his ass is getting reelected

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    11 months ago

    “We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”

    Yeah no fuck off, the slaughter has already taken place, his "legacy" isn't hanging in the balance, it's already dripping with blood, he's not going to become a genocider, he already IS fuck this temporally nonsensical hedging bullshit

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Yeah, there is literally nothing he could do to redeem himself

      He do a complete 180 on policy, apologize to the world on live television then call in a drone strike on himself and his whole family killing them all and that still wouldn't bring back any of the kids he murdered

      • Trustmeitsnotabailou [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        Your don't under stand! His the best president ever. Doing a bang up job.

        Please no followup questions in what he has actually done

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Yeah lol libs grasping at straws. Enough of us are not going to vote for him and he will lose. There is nothing he can do to save face. Reminds me of this absolute redditor take I saw on his radically dropping approval rating among dems:

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      If genocide Joe somehow wins 2024 I will eat crow