The Intersection of Conflict and Electoral Strategy

With the U.S. Presidential election less than a month away, and the war in Gaza now ongoing for a full year, the group of voters who are “uncommitted” to a candidate remains a wild card. Thousands of Democratic voters say that they will not vote for Kamala Harris because of her support for Israel’s war effort. The New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the potential impact of such protest voters. “If you’re antiwar . . . it can actually be really hard to figure out who represents your interests, if anyone,” Marantz says. “That’s the kind of information vacuum, the kind of ambiguity, that Trump thrives in.”

This week’s reading:

• “Reporting on Democratic Rifts in Michigan,” by Andrew Marantz
• “Among The Gaza Protest Voters,” by Andrew Marantz 
• “The Gaza We Leave Behind,” by Mosab Abu Toha 
• “A Year After October 7th, a Kibbutz Survives,” by Ruth Margalit 
• “Why Netanyahu Won’t Cease Fire,” by Bernard Avishai

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