Van Jones: Harris Appeases ‘Anti-Jewish’ Democrats by Picking Walz
“How much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party?”
Van Jones is once again the voice of reason. He said the quiet part loud.
Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz because Josh Shapiro is Jewish (emphasis mine):
JONES: JONES: Look, Josh Shapiro is a class act from beginning to end. He’s a rising star in this party. He’s done an extraordinary job. He gets Republican votes, independent voters, moderate votes, smurfs vote for him, muppets vote for him, I mean, the guy is a vote magnet and there’s a reason for that. He is a class act. He’s a — he’s a true American, and he’s going to show up and he’s gonna –
ACOSTA: Do you think it was a little risky though, Van, that she didn’t go with Shapiro to kind of lock down Pennsylvania? I mean yes, David Chalian you were saying earlier just because you pick him as your running mate, doesn’t mean you automatically win Pennsylvania. But I got to think it would have helped just a little bit.
JONES: Hey listen that – the — the Conservatives, the right-wing Republicans, they were chewing their fingernails down to the knuckle because they were afraid of a Josh Shapiro, they were afraid of a mark Kelly, they’re not as afraid of this new governor because they think they can define him but so here’s the challenge you’ve got in this party, and you know, people don’t want to talk about it — we got to talk about it.
On the one hand, you have a lot of young people who are concerned about Gaza. You have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others, they have not felt seen by the Biden administration. You started hearing that genocide joke, that was building that was building and so those folks needed to have a candidate that they could feel comfortable with. This helps him in that regard. But you also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party. You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot. But there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there and there’s some disquiet now and there has to be. How much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party? So that’s going to have to get worked out. It’s going to have to get talked through.
But I tell you what, if you have a Josh Shapiro who says, you know what I give this my stamp. I give this my support. I believe in this ticket that’s going to help a great deal. And Josh Shapiro has a magnificent future in this party regardless. But this is — it’s mostly positive. You’re seeing mostly enthusiasm, but there is some disquiet and conversation we got to have inside this party.
ACOSTA: Interesting. All right Van Jones I know that conversation will continue I’m sure there are a lot of folks in the Harris campaign who will push back on some of those notions there. But we’ll keep that conversation going, Van Jones.
But overall, Jones supports the ticket and will vote for them. He’s not wrong, though. Antisemitism has polluted the Democrat Party even more since October 7th.
Van Jones admits that Kamala picking Walz was her "caving in to some of these darker parts in the party" in terms of appeasing "anti-Jewish bigots" that have "gotten marbled into this party." pic.twitter.com/UTspmYkFfF
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Goes to show the Democratic Party don’t mind racism so long as they’re the ones doing it.
Josh Shapiro was #TooJew for Kamala, the Squad, and Michigan Muslims.
Kamala’s (er, . . . Obama’s) team has made a political calculation that the Jewish community will overwhelmingly vote for her regardless of her apparent antisemitic position, so little is lost by her openly embracing the “Death to America” voters.
There has to be a breaking point somewhere. While this might not be it, at some point Jews in the U.S. have to realize what the Democratic party is thinking…and doing. Think it can’t happen here?
You would be wrong.
These secular Jews, these good German citizens, walked calmly to the cattle cars, convinced that in a civilized country, nothing too terrible would happen to them.
Ultimately, it really comes down to where the ‘Jewish vote’ is of any significant size. Nationally, the Jewish vote is so small (roughly 2%), it’s rarely, if ever, included in any pre or post national election polling. There are only a handful of states where Jewish voters make up 3.0% or more of the electorate; NY, CA, CT, MA, DC, PA & FL. Obviously, the only competitive states on that list are PA & FL..and FL clearly isn’t competitive this cycle. PA could be interesting. While it does have a Muslim population, it’s easily less than half of the Jewish population in the state. So, an appreciable swing with the Jewish block in PA could be impactful in a razor-thin election.
Could the slighting of Shapiro as well as the baggage that comes with it move Jewish PA’s to vote for Trump…or at least against Harris? Maybe. Unfortunately, there are almost no pollsters who measure (or at least publish) the Jewish vote in state polling. We likely won’t know what’s happening until Election Day.
In this election it could come down to disenchanted Jews in Pennsylvania. That may be enough. Dayenu.
Van Jones is crazy if he thinks republicans were afraid of Shapiro. He would have been a great pick because he’d put left wing antisemitism under a huge spotlight.
Shapiro is a far smarter and (as a result) more dangerous politican than Walz. Walz also has said insane things again and again which will come back to haunt Kamala and Him (to be fair Kamala has done the same
I LOVE!!! the Walz pick!! That’s awesome!!!
Now, we can relitigate the 2020 BLM/Antifa Insurrection attempts – the TRUE Insurrection attempts. This nation has let that completely treasonous insanity disappear into the memory hole, basically, without a peep, when it was actual, violent, EXPLICIT insurrection.
“Appease Anti-Jewish Democrats”
Hopefully Jewish voters will wake up and smell the coffee. Time to move from the Anti-Jewish party to the Pro-Jewish party.
LOL. Does Van Jones not know what this means? “Smurfs” are a HUGE part of the democrat fundraising! That is what James O’Keefe has been exposing with Act Blue. Hundreds of millions of dollars (perhaps billions) of illegal contributions, fraudulently placed in others’ names to obscure the size and origin of the money.
SMURFS always vote for dems. SMURFS are one of the base pillars of Democrat politics. SMURFS, MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and ANONYMOUS DROP-OFF BOXES. This is what the Democrat party is all about.
By not getting selected, Josh Shapiro is the big winner. He got talked about as presidential timber, missed getting defined by Harris’ policies and pronouncement, now can act as a gracious statesman with all likelihood of being vindicated as necessary to the Harris ticket to carry Pennsylvania,, and even in the remote chance Harris is elected Waltz will be too old to be a successful rival after 8 years. If I were him, I would be ecstatic.
When Van Jones is your voice of reason you are in real trouble.
“lock down pa”
lol
they proved that they know how to “lock down” the people the votes the constitution in 2020
its not going to get any better