Kamala Harris’s VP Selection Highlights Major Fissures in the Democratic Party

Washington, DC – The Republican Jewish Coalition released the following statement in response to VP Kamala Harris’s rejection of PA Governor Josh Shapiro as the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate. RJC CEO Matt Brooks said: 

The chaos swirling around Kamala Harris’s selection of her running mate has laid bare the serious fissures in the Democratic Party. 

The loud and ascendant voices on the hard Left of today’s Democratic Party should terrify every Jewish American. 

For weeks, various Democrats have attempted to derail PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s nomination to the national ticket - some going so far as to invoke vile antisemitic tropes. They succeeded: Josh Shapiro was too Jewish and too pro-Israel for today’s Democratic Party. 

By selecting MN Governor Tim Walz instead, Kamala Harris has confirmed what many of us already knew: the Democratic Party is being held hostage by the progressive, anti-Israel Left. What a shanda.