Biden Told He Could ‘Lose Michigan’ for Picture Posted from Air Force One

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The state of Michigan will be crucial to President Joe Biden’s chances if he hopes to spend a second term doddering around the White House. However, from photographic evidence of what was being served aboard Air Force One, it’s almost as if he wants to lose the Midwest state.

Biden’s visit to Michigan on Thursday was a bit of a mixed bag to begin with. The good part: He gave a speech to the United Auto Workers after receiving the union’s endorsement in the 2024 campaign, according to Axios.

“When labor does well, everybody does well,” Biden said, according to a White House transcript. “I asked the Treasury Department to do a study on the impact of unions on wealth and society. The single biggest reason why we have — unions are growing, the single biggest reason why the economy is growing, because you are the best workers in the world. That’s not hyperbole. No, you really are.”

Never mind that whenever the president says something is “not hyperbole,” it absolutely is, or that UAW president Shawn Fain acknowledged in a Fox TV interview that, while the union brass supports him, “A great majority of our members will not vote for President Biden.” He had a bigger problem on his hands in terms of protests from Arab-Americans, who are a significant voting bloc in Michigan and remain unhappy that he’s decided to back Israel in its war against Hamas.

“Some Palestinian American community leaders declined an invitation to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken today, saying they ‘cannot imagine’ what he could have to say after ‘nearly four unbearable months,” Axios reported. “Last week, some Arab American elected officials refused to meet with Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez in Michigan — calling it ‘dehumanizing’ to discuss electoral politics while the war is ongoing.”

The outlet also noted that the state is ground zero for an “Abandon Biden” plan to divert votes from the president to a third-party candidate to express their displeasure over how he’s handled the situation in Gaza.

And, according to ABC News, pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police outside the event Thursday in a tense standoff that lasted over a half- hour.

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