Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, fired back at pro-Palestinian protesters of Israel’s war in Gaza as they interrupted her speech during a Wednesday night campaign rally in Detroit.

“You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking,” Harris said with a long stare, drawing loud cheers from supporters in the crowd before chants of, “Not going back!”

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      4 months ago

      No go ahead and protest the Dems and see what happens. I’m sure Trump and the GOP will listen to your pleas /s

      If neither side is on yours, then it’s not an election issue. Stop trying to make it one.

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        You’re basically arguing that lobbying doesn’t work. Lobbying by citizens can, in fact, work, and lobbying a Democrat on a human rights issue is more likely to work than lobbying a Republican. Of course, Kamala can ignore you (or tell you to shut up, like here), but she’s at risk of losing votes.

        Telling protesters that they’re helping Trump win is incredibly tone-deaf, and the influence of Biden is showing. This is something that Biden would say to protesters.

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      There is a time and place for everything. When you are on the cusp of electing a president that will give Israel all the lea way and weapons to remove gaza from existence, maybe you should take it easy on the other candidate that will not do that.

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        How do you know Kamala won’t do that? What signal has she given that her policy will be different from Biden’s?

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          Her national security advisor tweeted this today:

          Translation: “We’re going to continue Biden’s ineffectual policy of begging Israel to please be nice as they’re dropping the bombs we keep sending them.”

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            Harris, presumably, wants to win. That gives us leverage.

            Unless, of course, elections don’t matter and this is all just theater.

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            It was this leverage and pressure that pushed biden to not run

            This pressure should be kept up as long as genocide is occurring. You cannot have freedom and peace for you but not someone else, especially if you are in a country that forments and causes most wars in the world