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RJC places five-figure ad buy against Vice President Kamala Harris

“If you thought Joe Biden was bad, Kamala Harris is far worse on issues of top concern for pro-Israel voters,” said Matt Brooks, the group’s CEO.

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U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Vice President Kamala Harris along the West Colonnade of the White House to the Oval Office on May 26, 2023. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

In response to her decision not to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday afternoon, the Republican Jewish Coalition announced its first digital advertising buy against Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential candidate.

“As Israel fights an existential war for its very survival and as hostages languish in Gaza at the hands of Hamas terrorists, including eight Americans, Kamala Harris is choosing to snub Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s critical address to Congress,” Brooks said in a statement on Wednesday. “Instead, she is going to a sorority luncheon. Yes, you read that right. What a shanda.”

He said Harris “should be in attendance to preside over the chamber. Harris has totally failed her first test as a candidate for president of the United States—and the RJC will hold her accountable.”

Announcing that the RJC had spent five figures to place campaign advertisements in battleground states aimed at Jewish voters, Brooks said the vice president’s priorities “are not the Jewish community’s priorities. If you thought Joe Biden was bad, Kamala Harris is far worse on issues of top concern for pro-Israel voters.”

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