The easiest way to get back voters for whom this was a deal breaker, is for Kamala to pivot on the issue.

The rhetorical techniques from surrogates have been out there for months. They don’t work when the candidate is out there eroding them by saying things like “nothing comes to mind”. You can be angry at these voters, you can blame them, but what obviously isn’t working is trying to move them by saying “Trump would be worse”.

The only answer here that works is a pivot from Kamala.

You lose way more voters than you gain on the issue by resorting to all out condemnation of one of our biggest allies, unfortunate as it is

Maybe if Harris were running as a Republican.

But its not Republican votes she’s leaving on the table. Its literally registered Democrats. And Democrats put the responsibility for the state of things on the Israeli government.

Center right republicans are up for grabs here, idk if youve heard but Harris and Trump are pretty much neck and neck in every battleground state. It’s not progressive voters she’s courting nor should she

You are literally arguing she make a speculative play to turn Republicans instead of going after registered Democrats that she’s lost.

I’m highlighting this to demonstrate for posterity how patently absurd the apologist rhetoric was on this matter.

Not just to turn Republicans, but to depress the Republican vote. Speculation here, but I think it’s reasonable to bet there’s a large number of Christian Republican voters who will never vote for Harris but aren’t motivated enough to vote for Trump…unless Harris condemns Israel. If Harris gains 2% Dem votes from never-genocide lefties but Trump gets 5% votes from Israel-to-the-max Christians, she loses.

I’m just really happy you responded with this, so thank you.

Posterity, when you are looking back on this, the comment above is the kind of wack-a-doodle, baseless, hopium, purely speculative, completely devoid of evidence kind of thinking people were using to defend Kamalas’ obvious failures as a candidate.