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🗓️ 10 October 2024
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Introducing Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election? from The New Yorker Radio Hour.
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In Michigan, many voters—particularly Arab American and Muslim voters—remain deeply upset by the Biden Administration’s support for the Israeli military, in the face of the enormous death toll in Gaza. In her Presidential campaign, Kamala Harris has not articulated any major shift in policy. Earlier in the year, during the primary elections, activists urged Democrats to check the box for “Uncommitted,” as a rebuke to Biden. But now, just weeks away from the general election, these disaffected Democrats could cost Harris the election. Andrew Marantz, who has reported on the Uncommitted Movement, talks with one of the its founders, Abbas Alawieh, about the difficult moral calculus facing Muslim Democrats, and why the Party spurned overtures from pro-Palestinian groups. The antiwar candidate Jill Stein, of the Green Party, is now polling very well with Muslim voters, and Donald Trump’s campaign is claiming that he can stop the war; however, Uncommitted leaders feel they cannot endorse Harris. In conversation with David Remnick, Marantz recalls that Hillary Clinton lost Michigan by around ten thousand votes; more than one hundred thousand people checked “Uncommitted.”
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| 0:00.0 | Listen to support it, WNYC Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:28.0 | No matter what your politics, it's been striking to see how the Democratic Party has coalesced around |
| 0:35.0 | Kamala Harris and this of course was right after Joe Biden stepped out of the |
| 0:39.2 | race but there's been one big split and that's over the war in Gaza. |
| 0:44.0 | Advocates for the Palestinians want the US to limit weapon shipments and support of Israel's |
| 0:50.1 | military or to end them entirely even. But Harris's support for Israel appears to be |
| 0:55.8 | not much different than Joe Biden's and at the Democratic Convention in August |
| 1:00.1 | no Palestinian American speakers were allowed to appear. |
| 1:05.2 | That split in the party is now coming back to haunt the Harris campaign in Michigan. |
| 1:09.9 | The anti-war candidate Jill Stein of the Green Party is polling pretty well with |
| 1:14.5 | Muslim voters. In at least one recent survey, she's well ahead of Harrison Trump |
| 1:19.4 | with Muslims in Michigan. Staff writer Andrew Morance has been reporting on the Uncommitted Movement. |
| 1:25.0 | Now you may recall, Uncommitted began early in the year before the primaries. |
| 1:30.8 | To protest U.S. policy on Israel, the movement encouraged Democrats not to cast their vote for |
| 1:36.5 | Biden, but to check the box that said, uncommitted. |
| 1:41.0 | Now though, the primaries are long in the past and the general election is just weeks away. |
| 1:46.0 | Michigan is considered a must win for Kamala Harris. |
| 1:50.0 | Andrew Moran spoke the other day with one of the founders of the |
| 1:54.0 | uncommitted movement, Abbas Alawiah. |
| 1:58.0 | The intention was never for this movement to continue to exist right now. |
| 2:03.2 | Our hope was that the bombs would stop long before, |
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