During Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN correspondent and podcast host Audie Cornish suggested that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) may have angered “the activist wing of his party” by condemning anti-Semitic campus protests.
Discussing why Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (Democrat) was chosen as the vice presidential nominee over Shapiro, CNN host Abby Phillips suggested that the Harris campaign didn’t want to risk angering voters who are apathetic about the war between Israel and Hamas.
Host Jake Tapper responded that Shapiro and Waltz share the same position on the war, and that Shapiro has in fact been more critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than Waltz, but that Shapiro is Jewish.
“He’s also the face of the crackdown on protests, right? He has vehemently argued that campus protests are anti-Semitic,” Cornish responded.
Tapper interjected, saying: “Not everyone. He called the things that were anti-Semitic anti-Semitic.”
Cornish later replied: “Of course, but he was a leader on this issue, so I think it was the kind of thing that the activist wing of the party still found offensive.”
(h/t Steve Krakauer)
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