How The DNC Kept "Uncommitted" Out Of The Party's Big Tent
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
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Summary
At last week’s Democratic National Convention, organizers tried to put unity on display by featuring speakers with a range of ideological viewpoints who support Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for president. But one major voice was missing. DNC leaders denied the request of the Uncommitted Movement, the Pro-Palestinian anti-war in Gaza coalition, to have a Palestinian American speak on stage at the convention. One of the people who the group suggested was Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman, the state’s first Palestinian American elected to public office. She joins us on the show to talk about the message the DNC’s decision sends to voters opposed to U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
And in headlines: The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded fire with Israel on Sunday in the biggest flare-up of violence between the two in recent months, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance says Donald Trump would veto a federal abortion ban if elected as president, and RFK Jr. threw his support behind Trump after suspending his independent bid for president.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 26. I'm Travel Anderson. |
| 0:04.5 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day. |
| 0:07.5 | The show that wishes J.D. Vance, but just stop talking. |
| 0:10.5 | He was on Meet the Press this weekend and said he doesn't regret making the |
| 0:13.3 | childless cat lady comment he just wishes y'all had a better sense of humor. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah he said a lot of Democrats have willfully misinterpreted what he was saying |
| 0:20.8 | which is totally how I would suggest to get votes. Tell people |
| 0:24.8 | they're not funny enough to get you. On today's show we talked to |
| 0:32.2 | Palestinian Georgia State Representative Ruah Roman |
| 0:34.6 | who was denied the opportunity to speak at last week's Democratic National |
| 0:38.4 | Convention. But first we're going to shake things up a bit and start the show |
| 0:42.3 | with some headlines. |
| 0:43.7 | Headlines. |
| 0:45.4 | On Sunday evening Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:51.0 | Nett and Yahoo said, quote, |
| 0:52.9 | this is not the end of the story. |
| 0:55.3 | After the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah |
| 0:57.4 | traded fire with Israel over the weekend, |
| 0:59.8 | marking the biggest flare up in violence |
| 1:01.9 | between the two in recent months. |
| 1:04.0 | Hezbollah claims to have hit an Israeli military intelligence site near Tel Aviv with a barrage of rockets. |
| 1:10.0 | Israel refuted that claim saying that it had launched successful |
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