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Episode 422 Promo - [Un]committed (w/ Hudhayfah Ahmad & Sam Husseini)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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National Spokesperson for the Uncommitted campaign Hudhayfah Ahmad returns to Bad Faith along with independent journalist and founder of votepact.org Sam Husseini to address the recent controversy surrounding Middle East Eye's report that the Uncommitted campaign effectively "committed" itself to a narrow range of political action after it accepted $400,000 from a Democratic Party-aligned PAC with the condition that it could not endorse any candidate outside the Democratic Party. Sam. Housseni makes the case for additional leverage via "vote pacts" -- agreements between Red- and Blue-aligned voters who want to make a principled third party vote to cancel each other out so they can confidently vote their values. Also, what's next for Palestine protests in the Trump era?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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0:00.0

When it comes to what happened to the Muslim American and Arab American community, you have to take into consideration that we were willing to abandon Harris completely and vote third party.

0:12.1

But then all of a sudden, Kamala Harris brings out the Cheney's and starts touting their endorsements, brings up Barack Obama to lecture the Muslim American and Arab American community saying,

0:24.0

why would you vote for someone or why would you endorse someone who was an architect of the Muslim ban?

0:29.5

Just to stop about Obama for a second.

0:32.6

His rhetoric and his speech was not really something that resonated with Muslims because we were aware that the Muslim ban came out of infrastructure that was already there because of Barack Obama.

0:44.7

The list of countries that were on there, where did Donald Trump in his administration get that list?

0:50.6

They got it from the previous administration.

0:52.7

We were aware of that.

0:53.9

So when he's lecturing us, it doesn't really resonate with us.

0:57.1

It was more speech to, I guess, stroke his own ego in front of non-Muslim, non-Arab American liberals.

1:06.0

And then Kamala Harris trots out Bill Clinton to sit there and say, yeah, a lot of children and men and women have been massacred, but we're not keeping score that way.

1:17.9

Something like what Sam is talking about would work or can work in a society where people actually trust each other.

1:26.5

But then you have this anger at the fact that

1:30.9

we're being spat on. And so that's what propelled people to go to the other side as opposed to

1:36.4

third party. I can see that thing working if, you know, mail-in ballots, hey, fill out your mail-in

1:41.6

ballot, I'll fill in my mail-in-ballot. Correct. We'll put it in. I can see that working, Sam. I just don't think people who live in states where

1:49.9

there are no mail-in ballots where you have to go vote in person are necessarily going to trust the

1:54.0

other side as much, particularly because while I do see the supporters of Kamala Harris and the Democrats

1:59.8

have very, very entrenched in their support and nothing was going to move them. And I see the supporters of Kamala Harris and the Democrats very, very entrenched in their support

2:02.0

and nothing was going to move them. And I see the supporters of Donald Trump very, very entrenched in their

2:06.8

support and nothing was going to move them. There's a whole contingent of people who, for lack of a

2:11.7

better term, I would describe, and I'm talking about my own community here, as ping pong balls

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