Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “blasted House Democratic leadership’s effort to rebuke Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for comments she made about the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on American foreign policy,” the HuffPost reports.
“Their decision to break with House Democratic leaders followed a vocal backlash to criticism of Omar from the party’s progressive base, which argued that Democrats were singling Omar out for her status as a black Muslim woman.”
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