“After their meeting on Sunday, Shapiro called Harris’ team and made clear that he was ‘struggling with the decision to leave his current job as governor of Pennsylvania, in order to seek the vice presidency,’ according to a person familiar”
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- New: In late spring 2022, Rep. Jamaal Bowman reached out a local Jewish leader with an unusual request as he faced mounting scrutiny over his record on Israel. “Do you have pics of us?” he texted. “So I can show the world I’m friends with Jewish People.”
- News: Former Rep. Peter Deutsch, a Democrat from Florida, is officially endorsing Trump on an RNC-Trump campaign press call happening now, says Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.
- New: Zohran Mamdani refused to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada” during a podcast interview with The Bulwark released on Tuesday, arguing the phrase is an expression of Palestinian rights
- Scoop: Candace Owens is no longer attending a Trump campaign fundraiser in Nashville on Friday, a source familiar with the event confirms to me — after her participation drew fierce backlash from conservative critics and Jewish allies of the former president.BREAKING @jewishinsider / @matthewkassel: "Candace Owens scheduled to headline Trump campaign fundraiser" "The far-right commentator has downplayed the Holocaust, advanced blood libel, and defended antisemitic voices like Nick Fuentes in recent months" jewishinsider.com/2024/07/candac…
- “Her interviews have not been going well,” one GOP senator said of Gabbard, speaking on condition of anonymity. “One told me she was the worst-prepared candidate and was kind of trying to get by on her BS personality.”
- Zohran Mamdani tells the NYT that Bill de Blasio was the best New York City mayor in his lifetime.
- Rep. Dan Goldman, a Jewish Democrat who’s endorsed Zellnor Myrie for mayor of New York City, responds to the controversy over Zohran Mandani’s comments. “Put simply, one cannot credibly assert opposition to antisemitism while defending the phrase ‘globalize the intifada.’”
- Statement from Sen. Dianne Feinstein in response to Rep. Katie Porter’s newly announced Senate bid.
- “My Jewish colleagues appear drunk with the Israeli power and will live to see their payment.” Newly appointed Chicago Board of Education president has a lengthy history of posting inflammatory and antisemitic social media commentary, @GSDeutch reports
- News: Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last night that he is launching an organization called Progressives for Israel. “I am going to call the question for Democrats,” he said. “Do you stand with Israel or do you stand against Israel, because silence is not an option.”
00:00 - Intel from Somos: Andrew Cuomo is now exploring a campaign for retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler’s Manhattan House seat, according to two people familiar with the matter.
- Before his untimely death, my mom (@doreenkassel) memorialized Flaco on one of her hand-painted ceramic pinch pots.
- New: Andy Eichar, Jeffries’ NY comms director, responds to the DSA’s “watermelon” flier, saying “the use of racially inflammatory imagery should come as no surprise given the role NYC-DSA and other gentrifiers have played in aggressively attacking Black elected officials.”
Why was @RepJeffries sharing the stage with far-right pastor John Hagee at yesterday’s “March for Israel”? Ask him yourself on Friday! Join Brooklyn families for Palestine & @DesisRisingUp to demand Jeffries stop supporting genocide! #CeasefireInGazaNOW bit.ly/jeffries_cease…
