A group of Biden's reelection campaign staff said in a letter that volunteers are upset with his handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

In a letter published Wednesday on Medium, an anonymous group of Biden’s campaign staffers demanded the president call for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing concerns that not shifting his policy on the issue could hurt his 2024 chances.

“Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict,” the Medium letter read.

“It is not enough to merely be the alternative to Donald Trump,” the campaigners continued. “The campaign has to shift the feeling in the pits of voters’ stomachs, the same feeling that weighs on us every day as we fight for your reelection. The only way to do that is to call for a ceasefire.”

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    176·
    11 months ago

    But, again, what are they going to do? Campaign for “no President has done more for Israel” Trump?

    Not campaign at all. Which I’m sure someone here will interpret as being identical to campaigning for Trump.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      44·
      11 months ago

      Yeah who needs political activism anyway! Oh wait… that’s how we got into this fucked mess in the first place.

      • CommanderCloon
        32·
        11 months ago

        You can absolutely be an activist who doesn’t work under a particular party or politician

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          21·
          11 months ago

          Yes exactly. Like the displaced mentally ill guy who yells at the commuters downtown. Completely free of corporate entanglements.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      611·
      11 months ago

      It pretty much is, or if they push to a 3rd party who will end up taking away 5-10% of the vote, that’s just as good as campaigning for Trump.

      Stein, Kennedy, West have absolutely no hope of winning even a single state, much less the election, but they will make it certain that Biden doesn’t win.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        143·
        11 months ago

        Really? Everyone who isn’t actively campaigning for Biden is campaigning for Trump? Is there anything else to which Biden is entitled by virtue of being the second worst candidate?

        If I don’t sell everything I own and donate every dime to Biden, have I actually sold everything I owned and donated it to Trump?

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          11 months ago

          Is there anything else to which Biden is entitled by virtue of being the second worst candidate?

          Well now that you ask, you also need to talk about how amazing the economy is, and how young and vigorous he is, and like how much safer we are with a secure Israel and stuff.

          Any conversation that isn’t talking about how amazing Biden is, is propaganda for Trump.

          (Excuse me while I go wash my mouth out.)

      • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
        31·
        11 months ago

        So if I’m not out bothering my neighbors by knocking on doors and littering the highway with signs I’m campaigning for Trump?