Q. What do you call Hamas murdering six hostages, including an American?
A. A political “headache” for Biden-Harris.
That’s according to CNN regular Toluse Olorunnipa, also the Washington Post‘s chief White House correspondent. Olorunnipa won a Pulitzer Prize as co-author of His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
To be realistic: politics play a role in virtually every decision that presidents of all parties make. But it struck an unseemly note for Olorunnipa to twice describe the recent murder of the six hostages as a “political headache” for Biden-Harris, endangering Kamala’s ability to claim the mantle of Commander-in-Chief.
OLORUNNIPA: They are going to try to push both sides towards inching towards this ceasefire in a more significant way. In part because they don’t want any more hostages to die, and in part…
