Keep an eye on the Wisconsin protest vote

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Most Americans have moved on from the presidential primaries now that they are effectively over. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have amassed enough delegates to win the Democratic and Republican nomination, respectively.

But there was still an important message for Biden in particular from the results in Wisconsin’s primary on Tuesday, where progressives and pro-Palestinian Democrats did not support the Democratic president. As of early Wednesday morning, nearly 48,000 votes, or 8.3% of those cast, were for “uninstructed” in the Democratic primary.

Biden was actively shifting course Tuesday as he addresses increasingly loud concerns from the Muslim American community about the situation in Gaza.

He had been scheduled to attend a scaled-back iftar dinner commemorating Ramadan at the White House. But pushback from potential attendees led the White House to shift those plans and instead conduct a meeting with Muslim community leaders.

Trump, meanwhile, is holding general election rallies in Michigan and Wisconsin to focus on the issues of immigration and crime.

Wisconsin’s ‘uninstructed delegation’ vote

The primaries technically continue into June, and some progressive voters in particular are intent to use the process to send a message to Biden about his support for Israel during the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

That’s why there will be a fair amount of scrutiny of the fraction of people who don’t vote for Biden in the Democratic primary in Wisconsin but instead support an “uninstructed delegation.”

This is basically the same as voting for the