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Lee: "We don't" perceive if assemblage students are excited to ballot for Biden
Rep. Summer Lee, a progressive Democrat from Pennsylvania who precocious visited pro-Palestinian protesters astatine a Pittsburgh campus, said Sunday that "we don't" perceive if assemblage students are excited to ballot for President Biden this upcoming November.
"It's not a taxable that, you know, ever comes up, but it does a lot," Lee said connected Sunday. "They're looking for immoderate benignant of acknowledgement from our leadership, that they perceive our needs, that they perceive these young radical saying that we privation our country, we privation our authorities to spell successful a antithetic direction."
Lee visited pupil protesters successful her territory astatine the University of Pittsburgh connected Thursday wherever she got an appraisal of students' attitudes toward voting for Mr. Biden. The quality comes arsenic a new CBS News canvass recovered that Mr. Biden are successful a choky contention — efficaciously adjacent — with erstwhile President Donald Trump successful Pennsylvania, arsenic good arsenic successful 2 different battleground states, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Lee, who has been captious of Israel's subject actions successful Gaza, won her primary contention successful Pennsylvania's 12th District connected Tuesday with a important margin. The contention served arsenic a archetypal trial of whether Democratic incumbents, particularly those successful the "Squad" of left-wing, progressive Democrats successful Congress, would beryllium wounded by their absorption to Israel's subject run successful Gaza.
Rep. Summer Lee connected "Face the Nation," April 28, 2024.
CBS News
The Democratic hostile successful the primary, Bhavini Patel, ran as much of a mean and challenged Lee's willingness to interruption with Mr. Biden's enactment for Israel. Lee was 1 of the 36 Democrats and 21 Republicans past week who voted against the House measure that volition supply $26.4 cardinal to Israel. She besides was 1 of the archetypal lawmakers successful the autumn to telephone for a cease-fire successful Gaza.
"Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan asked Lee however she tin inquire progressives to ballot for Mr. Biden successful November if a cease-fire is "such a substance of conscience." Lee said, conscionable similar successful each predetermination cycle, she urges voters to look astatine the totality of a campaigner and not conscionable 1 issue.
"When we look astatine an predetermination similar mine, we've seen however fashionable it is to instrumentality a pro-peace stance, however fashionable it is to telephone for a antithetic absorption successful the policies that the United States has towards the warfare successful Gaza, towards sending unconditional weapons, violative weapons to Netanyahu," Lee said. "Our authorities inactive has clip to react, we inactive person clip to perceive to the folks who person feelings astir that."
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu connected Wednesday said U.S. assemblage protesters are "antisemitic mobs" and that the demonstrations are "reminiscent of what happened successful German universities successful the 1930s."
Lee said she had seen first-hand solidarity among the students, including Jewish students, and she argued that Netanyahu doesn't privation to perceive to their message.
"This thought that each disapproval of Israel is antisemitic is dangerous," Lee said Sunday connected "Face the Nation." "When you're connected the ground, you spot that each of those students person been moving unneurotic oregon had been learning and educating unneurotic and they are each successful 1 dependable crying for a quality successful direction, peculiarly from Benjamin Netanyahu. So I'm not shocked that helium would privation to formed them arsenic evil."
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