In order to do so, she will not only have to upend a history of American racism and sexism – in 200 years of US democracy, voters have elected only one Black president and never a woman – but get out the vote among a population disaffected with politics, by selling her policies on key issues including the Israel-Hamas war, inflation, abortion, immigration and more.
Though Harris has technically toed Biden's line on Gaza, she is viewed as being more forceful when it comes to criticizing Israel, and expressing empathy for Palestinians. When she delivered a speech in March in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, her comments on Gaza were followed by sustained applause. People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane. And our common humanity compels us to act, she said.
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