Reporter to Kamala Harris: ‘Do You Think You Could Lose the Election Because of Gaza?’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
Reporter: “The elected officials that faced tremendous backlash since you mentioned his name at the rally. Obviously there’s a lot of turmoil within the American Muslim communities here in Michigan. Do you think you could lose the election because of Gaza and what, you know, overnight there were more strikes and 32 more people killed in Gaza. Some in hospitals. How risky is it that you could lose the election?”

Harris: “Is something happening there and I speak publicly all the time about the fact. There are so many tragic stories coming from Gaza and of course the first in the phase of everything that’s happened, the first most tragic story is October and what happen that had day and what’s happened since. I think what’s critically important as we look at this moment is one, acknowledging the tragedy of what has happened in Gaza in terms of the extraordinary number of innocent Palestinians that were killed and taking that seriously and speaking truth about that and in addition to what I said about what happened on October 7 in terms of 1200 innocent Israelis being slaughtered, women being horribly raped and fast forwarding to today with the killing with sinwar, this creates an opening that I believe we must take full advantage of to dedicate ourselves to ending this war and bringing hostages home. As it relates to issues in the Middle East and in particular in that region, it’s never been easy. That doesn’t mean we give up. It is always going to be difficult.”