I mean…I don’t want Harris to pick Shapiro either but if he actually nets her a 1 point swing in PA, that could be decisive.
The issue is we haven’t had many swing state VP picks in recent decades from which to extrapolate. (There are good reasons to think safe state effects are greater.)
In fairness to the chorus, early reporting indeed suggested the campaign would shy away from the issue. Maybe the public response shifted the approach at the margins.
I mean on the one hand "why you trollin' like a bitch, ain't you tired?/tryna strike a chord and it's probably A-MINOR" is an all-time great line but man, this article kind of reads them both to filth and it's hard to disagree...
Your description is not accurate. Biden was quite specifically saying he did not believe that Palestinians are telling the truth about the overall fatality count.
Highly recommend this article which breaks this precise issue down very well, if you haven't had a chance to read it yet: www.bostonreview.net/articles/fal... Pull quote screenshotted here.
Katz didn't even make the claim that Singal says he does. He's not seizing on "some pedantic technical error," he's seizing on an overreading of a technically accurate (if not 100% clear) excerpt.
