Harris’s national security adviser pushed back on claims the vice president was open to cutting the flow of weapons.
Vice President Kamala Harris stands on stage during a campaign event at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on August 7, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.
“It’s exactly because the current White House policy allows bombs to flow to Netanyahu unconditionally that he has been emboldened to kill tens of thousands of civilians,” movement leaders wrote on social media. “We pray that Vice President Harris can unite our party by correcting course because our democracy cannot afford to pay the bill for disregarding Palestinian lives should it come due in November. Not another bomb.
In interviews, the leaders of the movement in Michigan also emphasized that Harris is risking her own candidacy and, ironically, making it easier for Trump to win by not supporting an arms embargo. They said they are heartened by Harris’s pledge to meet with them, but are concerned that their message isn’t breaking through.
Layla Elabed, one of the founders of the movement, said that Harris will lose Michigan if she doesn’t commit to breaking with Biden on Gaza policy. Michigan is a key swing state with a large population of Muslim and Arab voters, and analyses have shown that the“Biden, in 2020, could not win his race to the White House without Michigan, and that win came largely from Muslim and Arabic voters,”by roughly 155,000 votes, while roughly 145,000 Muslim and Arab voters participated in the election.
“There are folks here in Dearborn, Michigan, who know, firsthand, the impact of American-funded bombs. Right now we are pretty much faced with an impossible choice,” said Elabed. “We are asked to choose between a candidate that supports a far right-wing government carr out war crimes against Palestinians; or a far right-wing government here at home that, right now, threatens to reenact policies like the Muslim ban and also to give the greenlight to Netanyahu.
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