Dem Rep. Ritchie Torres: ‘When You Play Both Sides, You Please No One and Alienate Everyone’

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TORRES: "I feel that the party should follow the John Fetterman/Richie Torres model of moral clarity. That would be my proposition. I feel like there was a misperception of Vice President Harris in my view, and people might disagree. I felt that Vice President Harris is a mainstream, pro-Israel, establishment Democrats who falls squarely within what I call the pro-Israel consensus that has historically governed American politics. But because of the virulent anti-Zionism of the far left, you know, she was perceived differently among elements of the Jewish community, and there was an attempt to navigate or finesse the issue of Israel in order to placate the anti-Israel vote. I suspect you took note that Donald Trump won Dearborn, Michigan, he defeated Kamala Harris even though his pro-Israel and has no sympathy for Palestinians at all. And so the lesson learned is that when you play both sides, you please no one and alienate everyone."