Katty Kay: Biden Was More Focused on the Swing Voters in His Address on College Campus Violence

EXCERPT:

KAY: “You know, there’s two conflicting bases here that the president has to reach out to. There’s the base who are the kids in universities who are very focused on Gaza, who are upset about the government’s policies, who don’t like the idea that their tax dollars are being used to fund those weapons that are being used against Palestinians, but there is an equally important base for the president, and that is swing voters who may be looking at the kinds of scenes that they saw in Columbia, maybe looking at the kind of scenes they saw at UCLA, and the president had to try to reach out to both of those. But I thought it was really interesting, it sounded to me like he was a much more focused in on the swing voters. This is the kind of speech, I think, that administrations and universities would have been happy to hear because he was saying what the universities themselves have been saying, that there's kind of the violence that's unlawful. Yes, peaceful protest, but this kind of disruption, that does not work."