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before Election Day, host John Oliver made a last-minute plea for hesitant pro-Palestinian voters to cast their ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris , arguing that she will be easier to hold accountable than former President Donald Trump when it comes to the U.S. role in Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
“What I have endorsed is that people come out and vote, to not sit on the sideline, regardless of all that has unfolded and happened to you directly or indirectly,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud“And so, I’ve called on people to vote their moral conscience,” Hammoud said. “To go out, to at least begin with the local ballot questions, the local elections, and then work their way up to the ballot as they get to that presidential question.
Some of the Uncommitted leaders have stressed that they are voting for Harris because she can be more easily pressured to change policy positions. Georgia statesaying that she voted for the Democrat in her crucial swing state as a “promise that I and those who stand with me will not stop demanding the end of mass slaughter and violence everywhere.”
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