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How would THAT have impacted the election?

Her campaign could have lost support from Jewish voters and donors.

The highly influential RW media landscape would have gone into overdrive with narratives that Harris was abandoning a close American ally, was antisemitic, and supporting terrorists.

The mainstream media would have run with those stories, and she'd be put on the defensive answering those questions.

Democratic strategists who advised the Harris campaign no doubt weighed the consequences on this issue, and determined that breaking with Biden on these arms sales would hurt more than help her chances in the election.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It was a political calculation in what they knew would be a very tight race.

My personal views:

When civilian casualties in Gaza escalated past 100, 200, 300 times the death toll of Oct 7 -- and Netanyahu ignored all pleas from his greatest enabler, the USA -- the correct and moral course of action was to withold the offensive weapons of mass slaughter that were turning Gaza into rubble.

However, Biden's greatest responsibility was to save American democracy. He did that in 2020, but failed in 2024.

We will never know how things might have turned out if Joe had witheld bombs from Israel, or if he had decided not to run for a 2nd term. I think the latter was the bigger factor.

Of one thing I am certain:
Gaza was going to Hurt the Harris campaign either way.

Could it made the crucial difference?

Perhaps, if Gaza was the main reason for the low turnout on Nov 5, but we will never know.