The Biden-Harris campaign is taking a bit of a victory lap after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pulled off a symbolic win in the New Hampshire primary election.
Despite not being on the ballot due to a Democratic primary dispute over the president’s plan to prioritize Black voters in South Carolina this election cycle, Biden and Harris bested Democratic challengers U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and Marianne Williamson in the primary thanks to a grassroots write-in campaign.
The bright spot for team Biden-Harris also comes as the outcry against the White House’s support of Israel in its war in Gaza grows louder on the campaign trail.
While New Hampshire voters cast their ballots on Tuesday, Biden and Harris held their first joint campaign rally in Virginia to condemn the wave of Republican-led abortion bans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
But as the president began his remarks, he was interrupted at least 10 times by pro-Palestine protesters who chanted, “Stop funding genocide” and “Genocide Joe has got to go.”
Criticisms of the Biden-Harris administration’s support of Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza are particularly coming from Arab Americans, Black Americans, and young Americans – all key voting blocs of Biden’s 2020 victory coalition. A New York Times/Siena College poll in December found that a majority of Black, young, and Democratic voters sympathize more with Palestinians than Israel in the months-long conflict that has led to the deaths of more than 25,000 Palestinians.
“It’s clearly an issue for the president. It’s going to be an issue for the White House because of the unique nature of this conflict,” said Markus Batchelor, national political director at People For the American Way.
Batchelor told theGrio that while he doesn’t believe foreign affairs will significantly impact the 2024 presidential election, it could chip away…
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