Speaking from the Oval Office starting at 8 p.m. ET, Biden made the case to Americans that it’s vital to both global and U.S. national security to assist Israel as it responds to terror attacks by Hamas as well as to continue help for Ukraine as it fends off Russian invaders.
“Hamas and Putin represent different threads but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy,” Biden said, referring to the extremists and Russia’s president.
Biden said he knows the conflicts can seem distant and Americans might be asking why it’s vital to U.S. security interests that Israel and Ukraine succeed.
“History has taught us that when terrorists don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and debt and more destruction,” Biden said. “They keep going – and the cost and the threats to America and the world keep rising.”
Biden siding with Israel is going to cost him the presidency. There’s no way that this situation will be resolved by next November and Israel support is massively unpopular in the left.
I don’t think it’s as unpopular as you think it is. The internet skews perceptions.
Democrat voters favor Palestine over Israel at a rate of 49% to 38% . Going against your voters’ polling results is never a good thing when going into an election year
That’s from March. Polls now are very different.
Polls show Americans agree with Biden on US foreign policy on Israel
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They’ll vote blue, no matter who
If the GOP could pull out of their southern strategy death spiral a lot of Biden voters would go red. Against all evidence many people still consider R to be better on their wallet.
You think anyone at all who was planning to vote Biden will change their mind (and choose Trump over him) due to this?
Really?
Who?
The fact that trump is even a possible option still blows my fucking mind.
They don’t need to. They just need to not vote. Low turnout is what swings elections to the right.
You think this will compel people who were planning to vote Biden to not vote?
I personally find that idea laughable. Anyone who is so easy to swing doesn’t give a shit about Israel.
A significant percentage of people don’t even make up their mind on who to vote for until the election day. It’s absurd. With a margin that can determine the winner by 2% of the population changing their mind, our nation’s future is decided by people the day of that felt more strongly about what they wanted for breakfast than who they wanted for president.
The margins are close enough in battleground states that they can easily be swung by people thinking “ah, fuck it. They both suck” and not going to the polls.
The idea is laughable. It’s true though.
I don’t know. I get the feeling that it’s massively unpopular in the circles people like you and I run in, but the average left-leaning voter is still pretty well conditioned to think Israel=good Palestine=bad. It’s definitely not great and the Biden camp is surely not thrilled to have to deal with it but I don’t think it’ll hurt them too much.
I hope so anyway, because if Biden does lose the presidency we’ll end up with someone who would be fine with just nuking Gaza.
Fuck Biden for backing this war and apologizing for their war crimes. He is scum.
Actual leftists in the US don’t vote so their support doesn’t really matter.
Support for Israel is extremely popular with liberals, moderates, and conservatives. It’ll solidify support among the liberals that do vote, take away a swing issue for moderates, and probably help swing some anti Trump conservatives to him.
Nope.
In Quinnipiac’s latest poll, 48% of Democratic voters say their sympathies are more with Israelis compared to 22% who said Palestinians. That’s a massive change from the 46% for Palestinians and 23% for Israelis in May 2021. Fox’s poll, likewise, has shown support for Israel up by 17 points among Democrats compared to 2021.
Yeah, because siding with Hamas would surely win hearts.
Time for a newer (younger) President.
Works for me. Take it out of the defense budget.
He knows he’s got us by the balls. The world absolutely cannot afford another MAGA Republican presidency and we all know it. To clinch an easier win he needs to sway more moderates and a few Republicans both of whom support Israel over Palestinians. He knows the Left won’t vote Republican under any circumstances so he gets their vote plus the moderates and a few Republicans for extra cushion by supporting Israel. It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see how this one plays out.
Talk about a false equivalency: supporting Ukraine fighting a genocidal invader is precisely the opposite of supporting a country about to commit genocide.
No.
Fucking idiot is going to cost himself the election
By holding the most popular position on the matter?
