© Reuters/Lucy NicholsonSenator Bernie Sanders
The lobby group Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) sent out an email this morning,
celebrating the fact that Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race and gearing its supporters up for a fight to keep the Democratic platform pro-Israel.
The email, which was written by DMFI President Mark Mellman,
takes partial credit for Sanders's departure. "Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for president," Mellman, "That's a big victory — one you helped bring about."
Before Iowa's January caucus,
DMFI did run a series of anti-Sanders ads in Iowa, but the Vermont Sanders won the state's popular vote anyway.
The group spent more than $800,000 on the ads and the effort helped Sanders raise $1.3 million in just one day.Mellman declares that the lobbying organization's next battle will be over the Democratic platform:
"Extreme groups aligned with Sanders, as well as some of his top surrogates — including Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar — have publicly declared an effort to make the platform anti-Israel.
"As a career political professional, I will tell you that if Democrats adopt an anti-Israel platform this year, the vocabulary, views, and votes of politicians will shift against us dramatically. We simply can't afford to lose this battle."
Mellman points out that, while some people dismiss the importance of party platforms, the GOP effectively became an anti-abortion party after modifying its platform in 1976.
Comment: So now Pelosi using identity politics to break the backbone of the American economy. We'll see how that works out.