{"id":520634,"date":"2026-07-01T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/520634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:43:14","slug":"kamala-harris-speaks-with-mamdani-anti-israel-progressives-as-polls-show-her-ahead-in-2028-dem-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/520634\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris speaks with Mamdani, anti-Israel progressives as polls show her ahead in 2028 Dem primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Former Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> has made contact with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an anti-Israel activist who tried to block former President Joe Biden<\/a> from the 2024 Democratic nomination, and other progressives as she tries to cement her front-runner status in the 2028 primary.<\/p>\n

The Harris-Mamdani phone call \u2014 which took place after Democratic socialist and other left-wing candidates trounced incumbents in last week\u2019s New York primaries \u2014 and the other conversations were focused on the Democratic Party\u2019s future, Axios first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A source familiar with the brief conversation told The Post Harris reached out to Mamdani as she tries to rebrand herself to be more appealing to young Democrats following her 2024 defeat \u2014 and congratulated the socialist mayor for his winning endorsement slate in New York City.<\/p>\n

The Council on American-Islamic Relations in a November exit survey found Harris won just 20.3% of the Muslim-American vote. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vice president reached out to have a conversation, and we\u2019ve had a brief conversation,\u201d Mamdani told SiriusXM\u2019s \u201cThe Clay Cane Show\u201d Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019ve been in touch over the last few months, and I really do appreciate her outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abbas Alawieh, the co-founder of the Uncommitted Movement that opposed Biden\u2019s re-election over US support for Israel, posted Wednesday on X<\/a> that he met with Harris in Detroit after receiving \u201cmultiple phone calls\u201d from the ex-vice president.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my first call with VP Harris, I shared with her that several community members in the Michigan State Senate district I\u2019m running to represent have had family recently killed in Israeli airstrikes with support from our American government, and that my 91-year-old grandmother\u2019s home was destroyed as well,\u201d Alawieh said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I met with her last week, I reiterated what has long been my position: American tax dollars must never be used to target civilians and destroy entire communities,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Democrat knows how important Michigan is to defeating Trumpism,\u201d Alawieh added. \u201cAs a Michigan Democratic candidate for State Senate District 2, I urge VP Harris and all of our party\u2019s leaders to side with peace-loving Americans against endless wars, in opposition to the Israeli military\u2019s genocide in Gaza, and against the ethnic cleansing campaign in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district Alawieh is running in comprises Dearborn, the mayor of which refused to endorse Harris<\/a> in 2024. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a Palestinian-American whose district covers Dearborn as well, also withheld her endorsement.<\/p>\n

Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of the Uncommitted Movement that opposed Biden\u2019s re-election over US support for Israel, met with the VP in Detroit. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Harris also spoke with Democratic National Committee member James Zogby, a longtime Palestinian activist<\/a>, per Axios.<\/p>\n

Four days after Biden abandoned his re-election effort in July 2024, Harris accused Israel of killing \u201cfar too many\u201d civilians in its war against Hamas and declared \u201cI will not be silent\u201d \u2014 directly after the 46th president held a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo everyone who has been calling for a ceasefire, and to everyone who yearns for peace, I see you and I hear you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani phone call occurred after Democratic socialist and other left-wing candidates trounced incumbents in the New York primaries, Axios first reported. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Harris later sought a meeting with Uncommitted Movement leaders, reportedly to discuss an arms embargo against Israel if she was elected<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time, she tried to appeal to Jewish Democratic voters by emphasizing<\/a> \u2014 including in her speech accepting the party\u2019s nomination<\/a> in Chicago \u2014 that she would \u201cstand up for Israel\u2019s right to defend itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polls show that while Harris largely retained Biden\u2019s share of the Jewish vote from 2020 to 2024, Trump performed far better with Muslim American voters<\/a> than Harris in the presidential election.<\/p>\n

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, in a November exit survey, found Harris won just 20.3% of that demographic.<\/p>\n

Harris tried to appeal to Jewish Democratic voters by emphasizing \u2014 including in her speech accepting the party\u2019s nomination in Chicago \u2014 that she would \u201cstand up for Israel\u2019s right to defend itself.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s primary elections also revealed last week that the party\u2019s voters heavily supported anti-Israel challengers like\u00a0Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed<\/a> Darializa Avila Chevalier who triumphed over five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat\u2019s (D-NY) Manhattan- and Bronx-based district.<\/p>\n

Jewish Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) was also defeated by former Big Apple comptroller Brad Lander, a former DSA member<\/a> who has accused Israel of committing a \u201cgenocide\u201d against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Harris is currently leading the national Democratic primary race with 27.3% support, according to the latest RealClearPolitics polling<\/a> average, but has not said whether she is running in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might. I\u2019m thinking about it,\u201d she told Rev. Al Sharpton in April<\/a> during the National Action Network Conference in New York. \u201cI\u2019ll keep you posted.\u201d<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) follow Harris in the average with 17%, 12.6% and 11% support, respectively.<\/p>\n

Reps for Harris and Mamdani did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Former Vice President Kamala Harris has made contact with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[209049,42,46,61,11862,47,43,238,238321,40,38,41,39,226,14325],"class_list":["post-520634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-kamala-harris","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election-2028","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}