Former MSNBC host Joy Reid said during an interview on Thursday that she wouldn't vote for a Democrat going forward that did not pledge to end the U.S.relationship with Israel."The Democratic Party is as married to this Israel over everything.
Israel, no matter what, Israel, no matter what they do, no matter how many people they kill, the Democrats were as married to that as the Republicans.And so it would take a really strong Democrat.
It would take a Mamdani-style event to get a Democrat to say that they weren't getting down with that," she began during an interview on her podcast with author Ta-Nehisi Coates.Coates and Reid discussed former Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy, as Coates said a lot of Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans voted for President Donald Trump in anger against the Biden-Harris administration in 2024."But to me, I, going forward, cannot vote for a Democrat who does not pledge to end this relationship.This relationship needs to end.
This is a nuclear armed expansionist power.They don't need our money, and they definitely won't get my vote," she added in the clip flagged by Mediaite.Joy Reid speaks onstage during "Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment" on June 14, 2026, in New York City.
(Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Committee for the First Amendment)JOY REID WARNS THAT TRUMP COULD TRANSFORM US MEDIA TO ‘NORTH KOREA’-STYLE PROPAGANDA MACHINEReid recently raged at the president at a "Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment" event, where she delivered a speech condemning "orange a--hole" Trump's impact on the media landscape, warning, "The threat is not coming, friends – it is here.""Don Lemon arrested, Georgia Fort arrested, Terry Moran fired from ABC, Scott Pelley fired from CBS by the clack [sic] of far-right ideologues who bought it and handed it over to a zealot named Bari Weiss who may soon — she earned those boos — she may soon also control CNN," Reid warned in her speech, as the...