CNN Devotes Entire Segment VP Harris’s Desperate Need For Damage Control

Vice President Kamala Harris under scrutiny this week after failing to confront anti-Israeli comments made by a student at George Mason University on Wednesday, driving CNN to dedicate an entire segment on her office’s effort to do damage control.

While visiting GMU’s campus in Virginia, a student told Harris that Israel was committing “ethnic genocide” as part of a larger complaint by the student about U.S. foreign and domestic policies. The vice president seemed to give the student confirmation, saying “This is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth, should not be suppressed. And it must be heard, right?”

Republican lawmakers immediately turned to social media to shine a light on Harris’ lack of awareness on the issue. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted of the exchange, “Kamala Harris doesn’t have time to go the border, but she apparently has plenty of time to encourage anti-Israel, anti-Semitic falsehoods.” Republican Pennsylvania State Rep. Dan Meuser agreed, adding “Kamala 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.”

David Friedman, the former US ambassador to Israel, also rebuked Harris’ statements tweeting, “Shameful. 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.”

Harris’ failure to correct the student who falsely accused Israel of genocide, prompted groups such as the Anti-Defamation League to voice their concerns, saying that “allowing smears of this kind to stand is dangerous and can incite violence against Jewish people all over the world,” CNN reported in a segment devoted to the issue on Friday.

“Frantic damage control by Vice President Kamala Harris’ office that points to possibly deeper and more troubling problems for the Democratic Party,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper said, adding that Harris’ comments might only be a portion of the problem.

Tapper went on to say that the incident at GMU could illustrate a lack of “political acumen” that could lead to more problems.

The Vice President’s office has been working behind the scenes with pro-Israel Democrats in response to the negative reaction. On Thursday, Harris’ office reached out to the Democratic Majority for Israel as well as Democratic Florida Rep. Ted Deutch, the co-chair of the Bipartisan Anti‐Semitism Task Force in an effort to repair relationships negatively impacted by the Vice President’s statements.