We should be clear. What happened in Michigan last night with 100,000 uncommitted was seismic. Absolutely nothing I saw or read expected anything close to this. The campaign was only a few weeks. They had very little money (if any, I don’t know). My guess is the Biden people worked very hard getting their vote out because they wanted to keep the percentage down. This large a number empirically suggests what is becoming a truckload of anecdotal information — Biden is in real danger of losing Michigan — and with Michigan probably the election.
The Listen to Michigan movement should be seen as doing a tremendous favor to Biden and the U.S. The canary in the coal mine choked to death on the fumes of Gaza last night. Biden has to change course dramatically on how he is handling the Gaza conflict. These people are not idiots. Nobody will be able to make the argument that well actually he is doing something, playing eleven dimensional chess while looking at dead children in the street. If Biden feels he cannot change course he must step aside. This is not the false narrative started by the press about his age. This is real and even the press has been trying to cover it up before last night.
Stop making excuses for what happened! Stop it now. Stop saying Obama had 10% uncommitted when it was one fifth of the total number. Stop saying that it was just a protest vote. It was, but it was a protest for a reason. Stop saying people should not hand the election to Trump. This protest vote was because many people do not want that to happen. At this point the ball is in the Biden court. As the leader of the Listen to Michigan movement said last night, it will be the establishment democrats who will be handing the election to Trump if they doing nothing.
Stop wishing last night was not a big thing. This is Biden’s great vulnerability and to ignore it after last night is criminal negligence.