US elections 2024: After decades of driving around DC's political elite, these cabbies are voting Stein

Shakeel Ahmed has been driving a cab in Washington DC for the last two decades. Throughout his time taking passengers all over the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia area, he has come to know the city and its politics intimately.

He has driven around more politicians than he can remember, and is all too familiar with the halls of power in the city, like Washington DC's K Street, where the bulk of the city's lobbyists have offices.

The people who've sat in his cab have ranged from all over the political spectrum, from progressive Senator Bernie Sanders to Louisiana's former Republican governor, Bobby Jindal.

For Ahmed, a Pakistani-Muslim immigrant, when the decision of who to vote for happens every four years, he traditionally votes Democrat. But times have changed. 

"Since I became a US citizen, I've been voting for the Democrats. I voted Democrat for Clinton, for Obama, and I even voted for the Democrats against George W Bush," said Ahmed.

But when it comes to foreign policy in today's world, for him there is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans.

As a result of the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza which is supported by the US, he and other cab drivers like him have decided to vote for the Green Party for the first time.

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