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[AloeVera]

146. This whole thread incorrectly conflates Uncommitted with Abandon Biden/Harris.

The Uncommitted Movement tried to force a change in policy but did not tell voters to turn away from Democrats and vote for Trump or Stein as the Abandon movement did.

Here is the link and excerpts.

"Harris’s unwillingness to shift on unconditional weapons policy or to even make a clear campaign statement in support of upholding existing U.S. and international human rights law has made it impossible for us to endorse her," organizers of the Uncommitted National Movement said in a statement.

"At this time, our movement 1) cannot endorse Vice President Harris; 2) opposes a Donald Trump presidency, whose agenda includes plans to accelerate the killing in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizing; and 3) is not recommending a third-party vote in the Presidential election, especially as third party votes in key swing states could help inadvertently deliver a Trump presidency given our country’s broken electoral college system," the statement continued.

On Trump:

In a press conference after the announcement, leaders stressed that they are urging voters to "block" a second Trump term. But telling voters who have lost loved ones in Gaza to support Harris, Alawieh said, would be "inappropriate."

Alawieh called the non-endorsement "something we have to do."

"We know how dangerous Donald Trump is," he said. "There was no way, ever, that our movement ... would recommend a vote that would specifically help Donald Trump."

"We said to [disenchanted voters] that the way that we would endorse vice president Harris is if she moved her policy, or if she turned the page to a new approach, and she just hasn't done that yet," Alawieh said.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23736/uncommitted-movement-no-endorsement-harris-trump-2024

Mamdani is pro-Palestinian, pro human rights. Of course he would want a change in a policy that resulted in the slaughter of thousands as if their rights to protection were non-existent. It is not surprising to me that he advocated for this political strategy of trying to force a change of direction. Did he ever at some point say don't vote for Biden/Harris? I doubt it and no evidence has surfaced.

The bad framing, conflation and lack of context is an attack on him. It's unfair, untrue and no good will come of it.