Democrats Avoid Gaza Debate in Convention Push to Unify Behind Harris
- Mentions of the politically divisive war are kept to a minimum
- Uncommitted delegates demand a Palestinian-American speaker
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Kamala Harris’ campaign strategy for confronting the politically charged issue of the war in Gaza at the Democratic National Convention has been mostly to avoid confronting it at all.
Wary of alienating supporters in key swing states — including progressives and pro-Palestinian voters in Michigan and Minnesota, and Jewish voters in Pennsylvania — Democrats on the convention’s main stage have kept mention of the war to a minimum.