{"id":838846,"date":"2021-10-02T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=838846"},"modified":"2021-10-02T14:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T18:13:35","slug":"cnn-devotes-entire-segment-to-vp-harris-and-her-need-for-frantic-damage-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-devotes-entire-segment-to-vp-harris-and-her-need-for-frantic-damage-control\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Devotes Entire Segment to VP Harris And Her Need For \u2018Frantic Damage Control\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-devotes-entire-segment-to-vp-harris-and-her-need-for-frantic-damage-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=838846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris faced criticism on multiple fronts this week after failing to push back against ant-Israeli comments made by a student at George Mason University on Wednesday, spurring CNN to devote an entire segment on her office\u2019s attempt at damage control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rn sw me sx sy sz\">While visiting GMU\u2019s campus in Virginia, a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/29\/kamala-harris-receptive-student-claims-israel-committing-ethnic-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">student told Harris<\/a> that Israel was committing \u201cethnic genocide\u201d as part of a broader complaint by the student about U.S. foreign and domestic policies. The vice president appeared to offer her approval to the student, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/29\/kamala-harris-praises-george-mason-student-who-accused-israel-of-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a>, stating,&nbsp;\u201cThis is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed. And it must be heard, right?\u201d <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/kamala-harris-political-career-border-voting-2024-polls\/\">(RELATED: Eight Months Into Being VP, And Kamala Harris Is Already Trying To Save Her Political Career)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans lawmakers immediately took to social media to call out <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/29\/white-house-kamala-harris-border-czar-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris\u2019<\/a> lack of understanding on the issue. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1443203720771248134?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> of the exchange, \u201cKamala Harris doesn\u2019t have time to go the border, but she apparently has plenty of time to encourage anti-Israel, anti-Semitic falsehoods.\u201d This sentiment was echoed by Republican Pennsylvania State Rep. Dan Meuser who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMeuser\/status\/1443208692770426880?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>, \u201cKamala Harris owes all who support Israel an apology and explanation. Her foolish woke view is wrong, per usual. Go to Israel and learn something, Madame VP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Friedman, the former US ambassador to Israel, also denounced Harris\u2019 statements&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidM_Friedman\/status\/1443154586714492933?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeting<\/a>, \u201cShameful. There is truth and there are lies. No one is entitled to their personal truth. This attack on Israel is simply a lie and VPOTUS should have called that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By failing to correct the student who falsely accused Israel of genocide, groups such as the Anti-Defamation league also voiced their concerns, stating that by \u201callowing smears of this kind to stand is dangerous and can incite violence against Jewish people all over the world,\u201d CNN reported in a segment devoted to the issue on Friday, as seen here:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrantic damage control by Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 office that points to possibly deeper and more troubling problems for the Democratic Party,\u201d CNN anchor Jake Tapper said, noting that Harris\u2019 comments might only be part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper went on to suggest that the incident at GMU could indicate a lack of \u201cpolitical acumen\u201d that could cause more problems if Harris decided to, as expected, run for president again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President\u2019s office has been working behind the scenes with pro-Israel Democrats following the backlash against her, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/30\/harris-office-does-damage-control-over-students-israel-comment-514837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>. On Thursday, Harris\u2019 office reached out to the Democratic Majority for Israel as well as Democratic Florida Rep. Ted Deutch the co-chair of the Bipartisan Anti\u2010Semitism Taskforce in an attempt to mend relationships affected by the Vice President\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris faced criticism on multiple fronts this week after failing to push back against ant-Israeli comments made by a student at George Mason University on Wednesday, spurring &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}