The Biden administration and Kamala Harris campaign are reportedly worried that the ongoing Middle East conflict hasn’t calmed down ahead of the U.S. presidential elections in November, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The conflict in the Middle East began between Israel and Hamas last October but has since expanded into the broader region and drawn other actors in, including Iran and Hezbollah. The Biden-Harris administration has been pushing for regional de-escalation and a ceasefire in the hopes the conflict would end around election time, but that hasn’t come to fruition — and now the Harris campaign has grown nervous that it will affect Democratic voter turnout on election day, U.S. and campaign officials told the Post.
“It’s a huge concern. It comes down to people saying, ‘I can’t support anyone who supports a genocide,’” a Harris campaign official told the Post, using a disputed term to describe Israel’s actions against Hamas in Gaza.
Biden-Harris officials have worked tirelessly for months to try to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but that effort has failed as neither side has seemed interested in a deal. Israeli forces have also recently expanded their military operations against Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based terrorist group that has been attacking Israel since last year.
Israel has similarly traded blows with Iran, which launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles into Israeli territory on Oct. 1. Israel is expected to launch retaliatory strikes sometime in the coming weeks, according to CNN. […]
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