Blue and White was furious with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday evening after Yesh Atid allegedly sent out text messages signed Benny Gantz. The messages said that Blue and White was gaining traction and no longer in danger of not passing the minimum electoral threshold of 3.25%, and therefore voters should cast ballots to strengthen Yesh Atid.
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The message read: "Gantz: We are gaining strength and have over six seats, and we are definitely out of danger. When the parties in the bloc are out of danger, now is the times to decide and vote for Yesh Atid. A strong Yesh Atid is the only key to replacing the Netanyahu government."
Lapid also tweeted that "according to the situation rooms of the parties in his bloc, all the parties were growing. "Now we need a large Yesh Atid if we want to replace the government. The discussion of who will pass [the minimum threshold] and who won't is over, the discussion now is about how we replace the government with a big Yesh Atid."
Blue and White said in response: "After he abandoned the bloc and didn't worry about alliances, Lapid has started to send out fake news. It doesn't matter if Lapid has 20 or 22 seats – it does matter if Blue and White doesn't make it past the minimum threshold, and there will be nobody to stop Bibi's one-man rule in a transition government."
Blue and White also said: "The public has to know that if Blue and White or Meretz do not make it over the minimum threshold, there is a real danger that Netanyahu will have 61 seats and a government that will give him immunity. A ballot for Yesh Atid is a ballot for Bibi."
The party's election headquarters sent out instructions to its MKs, candidates, and all activists to keep fighting for every single vote to ensure that the party made it past the minimum threshold and into the Knesset. Blue and White was also making intensive preparations to oversee the vote count. Gantz himself was out on Dizengoff St. in Tel Aviv Tuesday evening, urging the public to vote.
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