When New Hampshire voters greet Michelle Wu at their door this weekend, here are five questions to throw at her:
If the New Hampshire primary is meaningless, what are you doing here?
Do you support military funding for Israel?
Do you think Hamas is a terrorist organization?
Do you believe it’s appropriate to exclude people for events based on race?
Do you believe Boston public schools are safe?
The Boston mayor is traveling to the Granite State as an emissary of President Biden a few days before a primary contest that even the Biden campaign has called “meaningless.” No doubt she’ll be doing some bashing of former President Donald Trump, who just destroyed his rivals in Iowa and is looking for the knockout blow in New Hampshire.
Is that really a good idea?
Wu has become the face of the woke wing of the Democratic Party that Trump loves to bash, thanks to her policies and statements in the last two years. She’s Exhibit A of the tone-deaf extremist left.
She’s not exactly in her element in moderate, independent-minded New Hampshire, the place where Massachusetts voters fed up with high taxes flee.
If anything, she might turn off voters to Biden.
So how much does she really relate to the Granite State? And why is the Biden campaign bothering to send a delegation from Massachusetts led by Wu there?
Biden refused to even put his name on the ballot in New Hampshire because he chose South Carolina as the first in the nation primary. Now he wants voters to write in his name to give him a phony victory.
Wu’s campaign office says she’ll be traveling to New Hampshire on Saturday to participate in “small regional write-in Biden events led by volunteers in their communities.
“At some events, volunteers will be joined by New Hampshire and national leaders including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu,” the campaign said,
“These are locally-managed, grassroots events – mostly small gatherings of friends and neighbors,” the campaign said.
In other words, Wu will be with New Hampshire activists giving her cover to avoid being seen as an out-of-state interloper.
No word on whether Wu’s small legion of protesters will be making it up to the Granite State with her. The mayor has been dogged by demonstrators, including some who made it into her State of the City speech last week protesting the city’s support of Israel.
Wu in fact has tried to avoid inflaming either side in the war against Hamas and hasn’t been very vocal in support of Israel or the U.S. policy of supplying military aid to Israel.
During her regular softball “Ask the Mayor” radio segment this week, Wu dodged questions about whether she supports an effort by Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren to place conditions on aid to Israel.
“I like to weigh in on things where I feel competent in my knowledge and expertise,” Wu said. “My knowledge and expertise is in the city of Boston. I support our federal delegation in the work they’re doing to try to make sure they’re advocating for what’s best.”
Interesting that Wu feels she has the “knowledge and expertise” to tell New Hampshire residents how to vote.
