The Uncommitted National Movement announces it will not endorse Vice President Harris but does not want supporters to vote for former President Donald Trump, and discourages third party votes.
In this file photo, Uncommitted delegates hold a press conference outside the United Center before the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22 in Chicago.The leaders of the"uncommitted" movement, which grew out of Democratic opposition to President Biden's policy toward Israel and Gaza, will not endorse Vice President Harris for president, but urged supporters to"vote against" former President Donald Trump and"avoid" third party candidates.
"Harris’s unwillingness to shift on unconditional weapons policy or to even make a clear campaign statement in support of upholding existing U.S.
Organizers’ key demands are for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and an end to U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. When Harris replaced Biden at the top of the ticket, theywas denied. Organizers had also given the Harris campaign a Sept. 15 deadline to respond to requests to meet with Palestinian American families in Michigan who had lost loved ones in Gaza. Abbas Alawieh, a co-founder of the movement, said the campaign's response was"not satisfactory.
"We said to that the way that we would endorse vice president Harris is if she moved her policy, or if she turned the page to a new approach, and she just hasn't done that yet," Alawieh said.A Harris campaign spokesperson said in a statement,"The vice president is committed to work to earn every vote, unite our country, and to be a President for all Americans.
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