It probably cost some votes, but those polls didn’t have the actual reasons people didn’t vote for Harris. That is: she is a woman and she isn’t white. It’s the hard truth but no poll is going to include “are you racist?” or “are you sexist?”
Also, anyone with even part of a brain knew that trump is going to make things a lot worse in Gaza than Harris.
she is a woman and she isn’t white
trump is going to make things a lot worse in Gaza than Harris
trump being worse doesn’t mean Harris and the Democrats aren’t complicit in genocide, people just stayed home or voted third party
Anyone who did that is an idiot for not at the very least being pragmatic in realizing that unlike most democrats, republicans have no qualms about Israelis settling the rest of Palestine, hence Trump listing the sanctions placed on Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Most republicans either don’t know or don’t care about the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, and would classify anyone as an extremist just for being Muslim.
Until a system such as ranked choice voting is implemented nationally, voting third party is in practical terms just as effective as not voting at all. The pro-Israeli lobby in the US means that there was no realistic scenario in which support to Israel would be halted outright, so in practice it’s better to at least pick the lesser of two evils.
Biden allowed Israel to destroy the Gaza Strip, Trump will allow them to destroy the West Bank.
Even if Biden had vetoed aid to Israel, there’s enough bipartisan support for it for such a veto to have been overrided in Congress. Like it or not, even though I’m all for the cessation of aid to Israel and the implementation of a permanent two-state solution, all that would have done is shift even more lobbyist resources into Trump’s coffers with the end outcome being identical.
He could have at least won some voters, instead he vetoed ceasefire four times at the UN, and bypassed Congress to aid Israel.
He would have lost more moderates than he would have regained disillusioned, single-issue voters on the left. Pro-Israel lobbyists egged on by Netanyahu would have falsely tied such efforts to antisemitism, something that most media outlets latch onto far more often than reports of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank.
Due to bipartisan support for Israel in the US, and the country’s geopolitical interests, both countries vote in a highly-correlated manner at the UN. In a political landscape where supporting Israel is popular, there was no scenario in which a president from either party would diplomatically oppose Israel, particularity in an election year.
Netanyahu took advantage of this to delay the ceasefire for long enough to help Trump get elected. In an election where there was much more at stake than the issue of Gaza alone, anyone who opted not to vote—or worse, vote for Trump—due to support for Israel that would only be entrenched further under a republican administration, is complicit in the harm that has come to pass from the hundreds of other political issues at stake.
He would have lost more moderates than he would have regained disillusioned, single-issue voters on the left
And that’s why we now have president Harris. Clearly a winning strategy.
Netanyahu would have falsely tied such efforts to antisemitism
Many Democratic politicians were already doing that.
there was no scenario in which a president from either party would diplomatically oppose Israel
A strong argument for voting third party.
Netanyahu took advantage of this to delay the ceasefire for long enough to help Trump get elected
So the ceasefire would have been in the Democrats’ best interest yet they sacrificed their chances to win at the altar of Zionism.
much more at stake than the issue of Gaza alone
“Genocide is a minor issue if it is happening to people we see as inferior.”
be entrenched further under a republican administration
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complicit in the harm that has come to pass
Would you say those who voted for Biden in 2020 or stayed home are complicit in the genocide?
You answered your own argument with that link. How many female, Muslim heads of state are from the United States on that list? If you honestly think that 6 million Americans stayed home over Gaza you don’t have your finger on the pulse of America. Again, I’m sure votes were lost due to Gaza, but it isn’t the main reason why she lost.
- The list is in response to the “Arabs and Muslims didn’t vote for Harris due to misogyny” allegations. Some Arab and Muslim countries have already had female heads of state. Arab Americans are mostly Christian anyways and Muslim Americans tend to be more progressive. Yet it keeps getting mentioned as a reason.
- No one expects the US to elect a female Muslim president when it can’t even elect a female white Christian president. Not sure what you were trying to say here.
- I don’t know why each and every one of the 6 million stayed home, or voted third party, but I know why certain minorities did. I also know that the Democrats haven’t won an election without minorities’ votes since they have had below 50% support from the white European majority, at least since 2008.