It's notes from America. I'm Kai Wright and you are listening to our pop-up election series on the call each week I'm just calling up somebody who I think can help me process this now lightning speed campaign

and on the call this week, Aeman Ismail from Slate. He writes about a lot of different stuff there, but he's been following the conversation within the Democratic Party about Gaza and the administration support for Israel.

We're going to talk about that and some of what he saw when he went to the

Republican National Convention, which seems like 8 million years ago at this point,

Avin. Hello and thanks for coming on. 8 million years ago at this point, even.

Hello, and thanks for coming on.

Hey, thanks for having me on, Kyle.

Thanks for the introduction.

So let's lead with the lead.

Last week, Kamala Harris was in Michigan.

Obviously a battleground state, also a place with a particularly important and influential Arab American community.

First, let's talk about the rally for people who missed the news of what went down at the rally.

Can you just break down what happened at that Harris campaign rally?

Sure, yeah.

So one of the headlines that drew my attention was that Kamala had shouted down or outwardly dismissed the pro-Palestine protesters who many

thought represented the large uncommitted movement there. For people who don't know, over a hundred thousand

voters voted uncommitted in the Michigan primary that was ended up being 13% of

the vote, but since then that movement sort of snowballed and became like a nationwide phenomenon and now to date it's

Over 650,000 uncommitted voters

Oh, wow, I didn't know that number. Yeah, and as places like Massachusetts,

it's like 9%, but in places like Minnesota,

that number could be like 19% of the primary voters

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