Nancy Pelosi in an interview on 'Political Capital With Al Hunt' to be broadcast this weekend:
Via Bloomberg
HUNT: One more foreign policy question, though. He’s
going to Israel, and your Republican - the Republican
majority in the House, one of your counterparts, Eric
Cantor, said Republicans have a golden opportunity with the
Jewish vote this year because there’s a, quote, “real cloud
over Obama’s chilliness with Israel.”
PELOSI: Well, you know what? That’s maybe his
characterization, but that, in fact, this president - and
hopefully during this campaign, it will become - this
president has been a staunch supporter of Israel. Many of
the things that he has done, in terms of Israel’s
qualitative edge in terms of how we have - have supported
Israel in that regard, for them to defend themselves, A, B,
is two issues that relate to Iran. No president has done
more -
HUNT: Do you think he’ll do as well with the Jewish
vote this time as he did last time?
PELOSI: The election will tell us that.
HUNT: What do you think?
PELOSI: But I - I think that he will. I think that he
will, because the fact is when the facts get out. You know,
as many of the Republicans are using Israel as an excuse,
what they really want are tax cuts for the wealthy. So
Israel, that can be one reason they put forth.
HUNT: That’s why some of the Republican Jewish
supporters are really active.
PELOSI: Well, that’s how they’re being exploited. And
they’re smart people. They follow these issues. But they
have to know the facts. And the fact is that President Obama
has been the strongest person in terms of sanctions on Iran,
which is important to Israel. He’s been the strongest person
on whether it’s Iron Dome, David’s Sling, any of these
weapons systems and initiatives that relate to Israel. He has been there over and over again.
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