Harris embraces Gaza balancing act despite anger
With her party torn between pro-Israel Democrats and younger progressives, she’s looking for a way to quiet one major issue until after the election.
Chicago | When Vice President Kamala Harris finally addressed the most divisive issue of the Democratic convention – the war in Gaza – she signalled she would pick up almost exactly where President Joe Biden left off.
At the end of her acceptance speech on Thursday (Friday AEST), a hall of supporters who had cheered her calls for reproductive rights and her denunciations of Donald Trump suddenly quietened as she uttered the words: “With respect to the war in Gaza.”
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