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“President Joe Biden cemented the Democratic Party's elevation of Kamala Harris to lead the fight for the White House against Republican Donald Trump with a convention speech on Monday that praised his vice president as the best hope for preserving American democracy… Biden's address in Chicago kicked off a four-day event fueled by enthusiasm for Harris and relief that Biden abandoned his own reelection bid and endorsed her to replace him.” Reuters
“Thousands of mostly peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Chicago on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, in a show of anger against the Biden administration's support for Israel in the Gaza war.” Reuters
The left is supportive of the protests and praises Biden’s speech.
“Like the protests on college campuses earlier this year, this march and call to action are about bringing attention to the ongoing death and destruction we are witnessing in Israel's occupied territory and our country's implication in all of it. More than 40,000 Palestinians have died since fighting began Oct. 7 in the Israel-Hamas war. According to the United Nations, 63% of structures in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged…
“Despite this tragedy, the United States is still arming Israel. Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved the sale of more than $20 billion worth of military equipment to the country… The vast majority of [protestors], and others who support them, want to vote for a Democratic president in the fall. I hope that these protests remain peaceful and are not escalated by the police force or political noise.”
Sara Pequeño, USA Today
“An arms embargo is a relatively moderate demand given the scale of the suffering in Gaza… Something has to give before Israel destroys Gaza and its people in their entirety. There will be pressure on Harris to dismiss the protests; to brand everyone with a sign antisemitic; to move on as if a genocide isn’t happening. I hope she doesn’t listen…
“Not only would it be electorally damaging for her to continue on Biden’s course, it would be a moral failure of the highest degree. If Harris wants to be president, she has to earn the privilege. She can start by pledging an end to U.S. support for mass murder.”
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
Regarding Biden’s speech, it “sought to thread the needle between promoting his own record and framing up the 2024 race. Biden went into extensive detail about his proudest accomplishments, while interspersing attacks on Trump and playing up Harris’s contributions…
“Biden mentioned Harris’s help in capping insulin at $35 a month and passing a significant gun safety bill. He talked about working on reopening schools and businesses with Harris. He noted she cast a key tie-breaking vote in the Senate on prescription drugs…
“And he sought to downplay any hard feelings about being ushered out of the race… ‘I love the job, but I love my country more,’ Biden said, before adding: ‘And all this talk about how I’m angry at all those people who said I should step down, that’s not true. I love my country more. And we need to preserve our democracy in 2024.’ Perhaps the biggest applause line came near the end. ‘America, America, I gave my best to you,’ Biden said.”
Aaron Blake, Washington Post
The right is critical of both the convention’s focus on abortion and Biden’s speech.
The right is critical of both the convention’s focus on abortion and Biden’s speech.
“The unabashed abortion politics of the Democratic Party in 2024 have reached the point where Planned Parenthood is now offering free abortion pills and vasectomies at a mobile clinic parked near the Democratic National Convention…
“The brazen and vulgar public displays of pro-abortion politics taking center stage at the DNC represent the triumph of the ‘Shout Your Abortion’ movement and the death of the side that claimed that abortion legality is only about ensuring that people have a choice and should be ‘safe, legal, and rare.’ In 2024, the message could not be more clear. Abortion and sterility are not only acceptable but are both positive goods that must be embraced and any suspicion of either is gross and ‘weird.’”
Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner
“As gimmicky as Planned Parenthood’s vasectomy van is, it does underscore a key difference between the nation’s two political parties…
“The Republican Party is becoming the party of married families. Both married men and married women overwhelmingly support the Republican Party and its commitment to projecting our culture and way of life into the future. The Democratic Party has become the party of single women, a party obsessed with avoiding family responsibilities and pessimistic about the nation’s future.”
Editorial Board, Washington Examiner
Regarding Biden’s speech, “The Joe Biden show is officially in reruns. Biden even got bumped out of prime time. His speech started at 11:28 p.m., in the hour when old sitcoms run in syndication. That wasn’t an accident… Democrats lined up an endless list of speakers ahead of Biden to push his speech back as far as they could, so as few people as possible would hear it…
“He talked about Charlottesville and how he claims Trump as president ‘emboldened’ and praised anti-Semites. ‘Hate has no safe harbor’ in America, he says. But we saw how anti-Semites have safe harbors – literal encampments on college campuses, immune from the law – in Joe Biden’s America. Biden even said of the pro-Hamas protestors, ‘Those protesters out in the street. They’ve got a point.’ No, they don’t, Joe…
“The speech itself was written as a celebration of Biden’s accomplishments – some real, many imagined – as president. The actual nominee was an afterthought. Biden spoke of Kamala Harris only as someone who helped him – not for anything she ever did on her own.”
Dan McLaughlin, New York Post
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