Opinion: Will Biden have a Gaza problem in November’s poll?
Opinion: Will Biden have a Gaza problem in November’s poll?
- May 1, 2024
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, MSN (The Atlantic), May 1, 2024 (Opinion)
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“I think Gaza could matter for a number of reasons,” Michael Tesler, a political scientist at UC Irvine, told me. The war, he explained, had produced a powerful brew of political forces—all of which bode ill for Democrats. … The president’s party is still starkly divided over the war in a way that the Republican Party isn’t. The issue may not have reached the level of divisiveness that Vietnam had for the Democratic Party in 1968, but as the momentum of controversial campus protests picks up, the parallel grows stronger. “It’s a great wedge issue for Republicans,” Tesler told me.
For the full story, please visit https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/opinion/when-voters-care-about-foreign-affairs/ar-AA1nYH4f?ocid=Peregrine.
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