Author: Mike Wagenheim
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Will Kamala Harris’s middling Israel support be a high-water mark for Democratic presidential nominees?
Campaign postmortems show Democrats’ big 2024 election losses were spurred by voter angst over stubbornly high prices, along with lax immigration enforcement from President Joe Biden‘s administration and his late-season replacement as the party’s White House standard-bearer, Vice President Kamala Harris. The economy and immigration policy will soon be the problems of President-elect Donald Trump…
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Hostility to Israel runs high among lawmakers from Vermont
Since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, support for Israel in Congress has been mostly fierce and consistent. But not all lawmakers are so sympathetic to the Jewish state, even after the Hamas attacks that day claimed about 1,200 lives, with hundreds more taken hostage. And while the lion’s share of attention is paid to Israel-hostile…