Jon Favreau

A bunch of potential candidates showed up to speak at Al Sharpton's National Action Network event in New York City this week.

And down in New Orleans, the DNC's spring meeting kicked off on Thursday, where one of the first headlines was about how a non-binding resolution criticizing AIPAC's influence was voted down, while two other relevant resolutions were kicked to something called the Middle East Working Group.

D.N.C.

Chair Ken Martin explained that the APAC resolution was merely shelved in favor of a, quote, blanket repudiation, quote, condemning the corrosive influence of all dark money in Democratic primaries, which so then the idea is that that resolution included APAC among other organizations or other, you know, dark money organizations.

This is all on the heels of new Pew polling this week that shows roughly six in 10 Americans now have unfavorable views of Israel, including an all time high of roughly eight in 10 Democrats, which is up from 69 percent just last year and 53 percent in 2022.

Interesting detail on the DNC thing.

In a Politico story before the vote, an anonymous DNC member said that they received direct calls from two, quote, presidential aspirants who would have to answer for the DNC's positions on Israel and AIPAC if they run.

Now, I read it a couple times.

I'm still curious if those presidential candidates wanted the resolution to pass or not pass.

But they called about it.

What's your guess?

And how do you think this issue of Israel plays out in the 2028 primary?

Oh, maybe.

Who knows?

It seems like it's the same reason for why we need questionnaires from interest groups that presidential candidates fill out.

Let's all cause ourselves some trouble.

Look, I do think that when it comes time for the 2028 Democratic Party platform, we should also get rid of that.

I know.

I know.

But at least there you can say, yeah, that's a different thing.