Prepared to sit out election over war abroad, a young Minnesota voter finds her way back into the fold

Six months ago, Samia Abdulle had resigned herself to skipping the presidential race, unable to get behind either major candidate despite her Democratic leanings.

“I don’t think I would compromise my values to vote for Joe Biden,” she told MPR News in April.

Abdulle, a Somali-American student at the University of Minnesota, was and is still infuriated with the war centered in Gaza that entered its second year this week and caused substantial civilian casualties. Despite heavy pressure, U.S. ally Israel and the militant group Hamas haven’t agreed to end the fighting......

But the change in the Democratic ticket in July changed her mind.

“I am going to vote for Kamala Harris,” she said in an interview this month. “I’m not going to be skipping down to the polls, really excited as some other people are, but I’ll still be there.”



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