Can Kamala Harris Wipe the Blood Off Her Hands?

By Jeremy Scahill

Within hours of Joe Biden announcing he would not seek reelection, the Democratic Party’s power elite began consolidating their support for Vice President Kamala Harris to head the ticket to defeat Donald Trump. Among Harris’s challenges if she secures the Democratic nomination will be to win back support from voters outraged at the Biden administration’s facilitation of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians of Gaza. In the critical state of Michigan alone—where a devastating poll from the Detroit Free Press on Sunday morning showed Biden down 7 percentage points to Trump across the state—there were over 100,000 “uncommitted” primary voters.

Notably, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, did not immediately come out in favor of Harris. Instead, he posted, “Dems have an opportunity to be bold this convention. To nominate a candidate who can usher historic policy domestically AND abandon the genocidal course charted in Gaza and beyond. America needs a candidate who can inspire voters to come out to the ballot box this November.”

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