Uncommitted Movement Welcomes Biden Stepping Aside, Hoping Harris Will Change Course on Gaza
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Publicado 2024-07-23
Vice President Kamala Harris has the backing of enough Democratic delegates to secure the party's presidential nomination, with Democrats planning to hold a virtual roll call in the coming days to formalize her place atop the ticket ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August. The Democratic Party has quickly coalesced around Harris following President Joe Biden's stunning decision Sunday to drop his reelection bid, but questions remain about whether she will significantly alter Middle East policy. The "uncommitted" movement of voters seeking to pressure Democrats to stop U.S. support for Israel's war on Gaza "breathed a sigh of relief" when Biden dropped out, says Democratic strategist Waleed Shahid, an adviser to the movement, and activists are hopeful for Harris to take a new approach. Shahid adds that the Democratic Party cannot cast itself as a champion of democracy standing against far-right authoritarianism while continuing to arm the extremist Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it "makes a mockery of our party's claim to be fighting on the right side of history."
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NO MORE $$$$$ FOR Isreal !
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Democratic party needs a transparent democratic process to choose our candidate , If it is not that threatens democracy.
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This is not good for America
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This is not democracy we have to vote for people to get them in power. They can't throw us anybody and we must accept it
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Thank you for talking about this. The Gaza genocide is the number one issue and I am disgusted at all my liberal friends who have ignored it all this time.
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Wish I could vote for Waleed Shahid ☑
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guess who is going to be our new president??
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Great job! Your videos are always so high quality and interesting! 💞✨
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What’s the point of calling for an open convention when most of the leading potential candidates have said they won’t run?
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Thank you for such fascinating ideas! Your videos always inspire me! 👄😻👅
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BRING PEACE make it a TWO STATE NOW AND DON'T VETO WHEN IT COMES TO PEACE IT'S OUR VOTE Thank you 🌹
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Dr. Jill Stein 2024 💚✌🏼🇵🇸
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Does this guy not know that the chaos at the 1968 Democratic Convention and the Democrats not all getting together to back the same candidate resulted in the election of Nixon, someone who was much worse regarding the Vietnam War?
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Harris didn't go after Mnuchin as AG though.
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Why talk about something, everyone know very much better that nothing is going to change
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FALSE HOPE
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All hail the new establishment puppet 🙌
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Republicans invited bibi, they should be speaking up against trump and republicans too, they would be way worse on gaza and would annex west bank, so not only is democracy on the line, but Palestine is on the line, protest is good as long as when its time to vote you remember what is at stake
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$80. MILLION DOLLARS!!! WOOOHOO!
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