There’s a gathering sense that President Biden’s response to the war in Gaza may cost him the 2024 election. A recent Gallup poll showed that his support among Democrats has slipped 11 points in the past month to 75 percent, the lowest of his presidency. On Friday my colleagues in the newsroom reported on a growing backlash against Biden coming from young and left-leaning voters.

Does this mean that standing with Israel could be politically fatal for Biden? I don’t think so, and to understand why, it’s important to understand the core responsibilities of an American president.

In 2012, when I was a partisan supporter of Mitt Romney, there was one message from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign that I thought made the most succinct and persuasive case for his second term. It was delivered most memorably by then-Vice President Biden, of all people, at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. He said that Obama had “courage in his soul, compassion in his heart and a spine of steel,” and then Biden delivered the key line: “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”

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    So how many Republican voters are out for blood? (Which I can’t believe the about face done twice in rapid succession. That Iraq was a mistake, so/and can’t afford the war in Ukraine, but now it’s go time.)

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      Ukraine being slaughtered by Russia? Gotta hang in.

      Israel committing genocide? LETS GOOOOO, oh… and I guess Ukraine can get a slice now.

      Neo-progressive fascists are just as delusional as MAGA fascists.