
Trump Playing with Fire
Gaetz and Kennedy must go.
Dan Schnur is the U.S. Politics Editor for the Jewish Journal. He teaches courses in politics, communications, and leadership at UC Berkeley, USC and Pepperdine. He hosts the monthly webinar “The Dan Schnur Political Report" for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall. Follow Dan's work at www.danschnurpolitics.com
Even those who may have predicted Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris could not have forecast the size and scope of his triumph.
I hope we will know who our next president is by the time you read this column.
As we enter the final tension-filled days of an excruciatingly close election season, one overriding conclusion stands out above all others: Israel’s strongest opponents will decide our next president.
It will be months and possibly years before we understand the regional and global impact of his contemptible disregard for human life.
When new polls offer daily reminders of the extraordinarily tight margins between the candidates, nervous Democrats can’t help but think that maybe Shapiro would have been a smarter choice.
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the Simchat Torah Massacre, the future is even more uncertain than it was last Oct. 8.
Israel is now engaged in a major military conflict in Lebanon for the first time since 2006.
Although the candidates didn’t spend much time on Israel, their short back-and-forth may have revealed how the two campaigns are thinking about their fight for the support of Jewish Americans.