The former president’s rhetoric shows voters punishing Joe Biden for backing Israel may face trouble in the upcoming election.
Donald Trump has expressed clear support for Israel’s war on Gaza, suggesting he supports the stated goal of the hardline government in Tel Aviv to continue the offensive until “total victory”.
Asked if he was “on board” with the way Israel was “taking the fight to Gaza”, the Republican front-runner for the US presidential nomination replied: “You have to end the problem”. With Trump competing with current Joe Biden, his words suggest voters will face a dilemma in the November presidential election over America’s support for Israel’s war.
Interview with Fox News where Trump commented as his path to the presidential nomination was all but cleared on Super Tuesday. After losing soundly in most primaries across the country, his only serious challenger, Nikki Haley, was expected to drop out.
Trump’s statement also comes as Biden’s support appears to be faltering. While the president won nearly all of the Democratic nomination contests on Super Tuesday, a large protest vote in Minnesota and six other states exposed weaknesses in his re-election campaign against his “rock-solid” backing of Israel.
In Minnesota, a key swing state in the Midwest, early results showed nearly 20 percent of Democrats targeted their votes to express their anger at Washington’s continued support for the government of “non-committal” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Insists that attacks on Gaza will continue until Hamas is destroyed.
But while some left-leaning and pro-Palestinian voters feel pressure to punish Biden at the polls, they may find they have little choice but to vote for the Democrat in the November polls if they want to. Don’t let Trump come back. The White House.
Biden has long expressed his strong support for Israel, even as its military operations in the Palestinian enclave have raised concerns about the threat of genocide and famine. More than 30,600 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military campaign so far, drawing international condemnation from governments around the world.
Some believe Vice President Kamala Harris’ call for a temporary ceasefire on Sunday, in which she spoke of a “humanitarian catastrophe” and called for more to be done to allow aid into Gaza, exposed the administration, and particularly Vice The president was listening. Messages sent by “unbound” voters.
“I don’t think the vice president would have made such a clear statement if Super Tuesday wasn’t happening, and we’re seeing the same thing with President Biden,” said Asma Nizami, a “Vote Unbound” organizer in Minnesota.
“Because it’s going national and because there are other states that are part of this,” the administration can’t clean it up, he said.
