Biden's Support of Israel Could Cost Him Votes in 2024
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
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One of those states is Michigan, which is home to a large Arab American community — with some two hundred thousand registered voters. Many of those voters say that the White House has disproportionately supported Israel, while doing little to protect the lives of Palestinians. And that position could cost President Biden their votes.
Meanwhile, the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows how the Israel-Hamas War has divided Americans along racial and generational lines.
NPR National Political Correspondent Don Gonyea reports from Detroit on the concerns of Arab American voters. And Host Scott Detrow speaks with NPR Senior Political Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro about what the latest polling tells us about Americans' changing views on Biden's support of Israel.
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| 0:00.0 | Politicians disagree obviously, even with members of their own party. Not that unusual. But the words that Democrats are throwing back and forth at each other right now are striking |
| 0:16.0 | What is wrong with you? |
| 0:18.6 | How is this possible? |
| 0:20.3 | That's Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's message to President Biden at a press conference last month calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. |
| 0:28.0 | Where is your humanity? Where is your outrage? |
| 0:32.0 | Where is your care? And listen to White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre |
| 0:36.4 | at a presser a few days after the October 7th Hamas attacks that killed some |
| 0:40.6 | 1200 Israelis. |
| 0:42.8 | She'd been asked about Democrats who had condemned |
| 0:45.1 | Israel's treatment of Palestinians |
| 0:47.2 | and had called for the US to cut funding to the country. |
| 0:49.8 | What is the precedent's message |
| 0:51.4 | to members of Congress who seem to be equating the Hamas |
| 0:55.3 | terror attack with actions that were previously taken by Israel? |
| 1:00.3 | Look here's the thing, and which, which, which, |
| 1:03.0 | congressional members. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, there are some members of Congress who have called for a ceasefire |
| 1:08.0 | and they have not gone as far as backing the administration's |
| 1:12.0 | call for support for Israel. |
| 1:14.3 | So look, I've seen some of those statements this weekend and we're going to continue to be very |
| 1:19.2 | clear. |
| 1:20.2 | We believe they're wrong. |
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