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"Uncommitted" co-founder Abbas Alawieh, visibly upset that Mike Huckabee is about to be in charge, says "You've got to do something about this, President Biden!" (x.com)
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If anyone has the rest of the interview, I'd love to see it.

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I’m sure she would have gained some number of “uncommitted” voters by verbally coming out against Israel’s actions. I’m saying there are other voters she would have lost

That is taken into account, it's still a significant net gain

I keep acknowledging that Biden deserves blame for his horrible Israel policy. You keep insisting that that represents “division” and “blaming,” because I’m not willing to also assign the exact same blame to Kamala Harris, exclusively, and hold the voters completely blameless on their side.

Harris' Campaign was strongly influenced by people from the Biden and the Clinton administrations, possibly Obama admin too but I haven't heard much of that. I couldn't care less about blaming her as an individual. The campaigning and policies are still done at a party level for the most part. My point is that it's useless to blame voters, vote shaming has never accomplished anything. If the Democratic Party is genuinely democratic, then holding them accountable is a meanful avenue for change. If the Democratic Party is not genuinely democratic, and instead only beholden to donor interests, then we all have a much larger problem on our hands which is exactly why solidarity and organizing with our communities, domestic and otherwise, is so important.