Abandon Kamala Harris: Campaign targets presidential candidate over Israel support

The Abandon Biden campaign that for months worked in key swing states to turn voters away from US President Joe Biden over his unwavering support for Israel’s war on Gaza has officially relaunched its movement with a new aim: Abandon Kamala Harris.

Organisers within the campaign had been deliberating over their next steps after Biden dropped out of the presidential race last month, and told Middle East Eye they would be making the official announcement during a press conference on Monday in Chicago, where the Democratic National Convention is taking place.

"On Monday, we're beginning Abandon Harris," Hassan Abdel Salam, a human rights professor at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a founder of Abandon Biden, told Middle East Eye.

The campaign held an all-day conference in Chicago on Sunday, where they worked with Abandon Biden leaders to recalibrate their mission and strategy to inform voters about why they shouldn't vote for Harris.

"In terms of electoral strategy, at the very minimum, we ask the American people to make sure that they never vote for the genocide or Kamala Harris," Abdel Salam said.

At this point, we want people to "receive the information, the message that she is a genocider and that morally, we can never support her, and that strategically, we need to punish her in order for us to buy power, because we've been thoroughly ignored".

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