Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.
No Shit
I understand what you mean, but the number of Americans who care about Gaza for it to impact their vote wasn't clear. Everyone (including me, admittedly) thought the economy was the main reason Harris lost and everything else came after, so this is new information.
I dunno, any attempt I ever made to engage in the discourse around her stance on Gaza was tiring and alienating. Even stating that she was the lesser of two evils and that I’d vote for her didn’t stop people from dismissing me as a Russian bot, or a bad faith actor who’s merely trying to hurt the momentum of her campaign.
The ‘swallow the genocide or democracy gets it’ crowd didn’t make the issue go away; they just made it silent.
Gaza is not a small topic right now. In a political landscape where Donald Trump thinks it’s important to make a pretense of being anti-war, the democrats genuinely supporting the worst kind of war was always going to be bad for them.
So a lot of people are angry at them for letting Harris lose because they held on to their anti-genocide moral high ground; they should've sucked it up and voted for her because the alternative was so much worse. Allegedly, if Harris had broken with Biden to denounce genocide, she would have lost too many voters.
So who the fuck were those people?! Let's unpack this. If Harris were to oppose genocide, and they were to get angry, the same argument would apply to them: Suck it up and vote for her, or you're supporting the destruction of democracy. And if they stayed home anyway, then it would mean that they'd rather see Harris lose than ease up on genocide. "Keep sending bombs to kill kids, or we'll let women and LGBTQ people suffer, by God!"
Do such monsters exist in our midst? I dunno, seems to me like they'd already be voting for the guy who allegedly would genocide harder. But if they exist, it makes a lot more sense to be angry at them.
As you correctly point out, and according to the article:
Of course, diverging from Biden on Gaza risked losing voters who supported his policy. But a close look at the survey suggests that risk was low compared to the potential reward. Voters who were with Biden in 2020 and stuck with Harris in 2024 were asked if breaking with him on Gaza would make them more or less enthusiastic about voting for Harris. By a 35 to 5 margin, they said doing so would have made them more enthusiastic to vote for her, with the remainder saying it would have made no difference.
The real issue is Biden shouldn't have been materially supporting genocide in the first place
Then Harris wouldn't have needed to decide to break with his administration or not.
The whole situation was russian propaganda.
Nobody would care about American bombs ripping apart thousands of children if Russia didn't tell them to.
Really this is Russia's fault that genocide is unpopular.
If only they'd have listened to...their entire voter base...instead of the foreign donors
It's weird to blame foreign donors instead of Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, which donated 40 mill, and whose stock half of congress own.
Israel is the client state here.
Most of Congress also gets AIPac donations.
That they're own internal never had them winning and that thry weren't throwing every popular idea at the wall hoping something stuck is gross incompetence
Honestly y'all fucking idiots
"I don't like her stance on gaza so let the neonazi take control". Do you think he's gonna make it better???
Ah the zero sum game enjoyer has logged on, where everything is a zero sum game, if you had to vote between Hitler and Mussolini you would shed a single tear and proudly cast your ballot for Mussolini as he is clearly the less bad option and go to sleep soundly knowing your vote didn't benefit Hitler.
I mean if this is to be believed he kinda did make it better. We can all hate on the orange man but it seems he kept his word here.
In what some Israeli media described as a “tense meeting”, Witkoff delivered his message. The president-elect was emphatic that he wanted a ceasefire-for-hostages deal. Trump wanted the war in Gaza finished. He had other fish to fry.
This seems obvious.
What is less obvious to me is why so many seem to have been comfortable voting for an open fascist as a protest vote for something not happening in their own country.
"This is wrong, so I'm going to make sure the US gets way worse in solidarity. That'll show the dems."
Put that energy behind housing prices.