Biden Faces Challenges After 60K Write-Ins in PA Primaries; Protest Voters Disillusioned by Conflict Management Strategies

President Joe Biden could face difficulties ahead of Pennsylvania’s election after over 60,000 write-in votes were cast during Tuesday’s primary, with an organized protest movement against his handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict claiming credit. The Uncommitted PA campaign called for voters upset about Biden’s actions to vote against him and set a goal of securing 40,000 “uncommitted” votes in Pennsylvania during the Democratic primary ballot. With nearly all the results tallied by Thursday afternoon, Associated Press revealed that more than twice as many write-ins were registered compared with the previous election cycle’s total. The coalition mobilized its campaign within a month and was made up mainly of Muslim, Arab, and young Democrat voters disillusioned by Biden’s conflict management strategies. More than 560,00 protest votes have already been counted nationally after last Tuesday’s poll results in swing states were included, with the coalition expecting to garner around half a million total protest ballots during primaries alone. As Pennsylvania is an important battleground state that Biden won by only 80,000 votes in 2020 and Clinton lost it by roughly 44,000 voters, abandoning Democrat votes might harm the President’s re-election bid against former president Donald Trump. However, convincing protest voters to back him may prove difficult given Biden’s reluctance to break with Israel over the ongoing Gaza crisis since protest group demands such moves could conflict with recent national security legislation that he has already signed into law as a National Security supplemental bill aimed at boosting Taiwan, Israel and other allies in Indo-Pacific regions.