Abandon Harris campaign: 'A Trump presidency didn’t have to be inevitable'
The “Abandon Harris” campaign argued Wednesday that former President Trump's electoral victory "didn't have to be inevitable."
“The truth is, a Trump presidency didn’t have to be inevitable. Democrats had every opportunity to win this election with ease,” the group, which urged voters to protest Vice President Harris due to the war in Gaza, said in a new release.
“But instead, they chose to betray their base, to abandon the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and to align themselves with some of the darkest figures in American history — like Dick Cheney," the statement reads.
Trump secured the White House for a second time Wednesday, rattling Democrats nationwide. Harris had faced criticism from the left for the Biden administration’s backing for Israel amid its war with Palestinian militant group Hamas during her campaign for the presidency.
“Abandon Harris” said that more than a year prior, “the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris launched and actively oversaw one of the most horrific, catastrophic genocides of modern times—perpetrated by the Israeli government, with full support from this administration.”
“We started as a few voices from a grieving, shattered community, bound by a single, uncompromising demand: stop the genocide,” the group continued. “Our message to them was plain—stop the genocide, and we will vote for you.”
“We set deadlines. We offered to meet," it added. "We asked them to listen. Instead, we were ignored.”
“Abandon Harris” had previously endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein in this year’s presidential race and pushed for Muslim Americans as well as those upset over the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war to vote for her.
The Hill has reached out to the Democratic National Committee, the Harris campaign, the White House, the vice president’s office and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
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