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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Gaza protests hurting Biden's reelection bid

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including protests of the war in Gaza spread to more college campuses and the impact on the 2024 presidential race could be growing and Republicans previously critical of Donald Trump express support for his 2024 campaign. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

As protests of the war in Gaza spread to more college campuses across the country,

0:05.0

the impact on the 2024 presidential race could be growing too.

0:09.0

Just one of the stories to discuss with our Politics Monday team. That is Amy Walter of the

0:15.0

political report with Amy Walter of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

0:19.0

Great to see you both.

0:20.0

And let's begin with those protests.

0:21.0

Obviously we've been seeing them spread across college

0:23.4

campuses. We saw them outside the White House Correspondence Dinner this weekend. We're seeing

0:27.8

them in countries around the world too, in Egypt and Jordan and France and Australia. It's not necessarily just young voters. and recent New York Times piece by Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan that some of his older and mostly

0:45.8

white constituents there in Wisconsin have been increasingly asking about Biden's approach

0:51.2

to the war in Gaza.

0:53.0

So Amy, walk us through this.

0:54.8

I mean, can President Biden meet their concerns?

0:57.5

And should he be more concerned about this growing campus

1:00.4

and other protests?

1:01.5

So I do think that the more attention that is being paid to first was on college campuses

1:07.0

and as you pointed out is now going everywhere is also a little bit of a Rorschock test.

1:12.2

If you are a progressive person,

1:15.1

if you're a more liberal-leaning person,

1:17.2

you see those protests and you think,

1:19.6

oh, OK, these are people standing up

1:21.4

for the rights of the oppressed and this is you know a

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