Shop
Your Account Sign In
Support Us
Subscribe
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Workers' Rights Labour Party Morning Star Video
Latest editorial
People power can shatter Israel’s sense of impunity
Advertise Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us Daily Alert
Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Workers' Rights Labour Party Morning Star Video
Gifts from The Morning Star
World / 6 November 2024
Activists pin Harris defeat on her support for genocide in Gaza
Students protest Vice President Kamala Harris in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on Election Day, November 5, 2024, in Berkeley, Calif.
Roger McKenzie
Recent
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev (right) and Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff, meet after attending the signing of a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and Exxon, August 7, 2025 in Washington
United States / 8 August 2025
Armenia and Azerbaijan to sign peace deal and agree US-controlled transit corridor at White House summit
8 August 2025
Venezuela / 8 August 2025
Venezuela slams US for 'pathetic' stunt as it offers $50 million for arrest of Maduro
8 August 2025
Haiti / 8 August 2025
Businessman vows to restore order in Haiti as gang leader pledges to overthrow him
8 August 2025
World / 8 August 2025
World in brief: August 8, 2025
8 August 2025
Japan / 6 August 2025
Hiroshima marks 80th anniversary of US atomic bombing of the city
6 August 2025
Russia / 6 August 2025
Putin meets with US envoy in the Kremlin
6 August 2025
Donate to the Morning Star Fighting Fund
Morning Star Shop

ACTIVISTS today pinned the blame for the defeat of US Vice-President Kamala Harris in the presidential election on her support for the continuing genocide in Gaza.

Republican candidate, former president Donald Trump, will take over at the White House for the second time after surpassing the 270 electoral college votes needed to win. 

Republicans also reclaimed control of the Senate. 

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Become a subscriber
More from this author
FLAGGING POWER OF THE WEST: Nigerian and US soldiers raise their respective flags at a US military base in the country in 2018; last year, at the demand of the new transitional government of General Abdurahmane Tchiani, all US troops left. Photo: Africom
Features / 7 August 2025
Niger’s pursuit of justice from its former French coloniser shows an African awakening
7 August 2025

ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres

Relatives of Palestinian child Salem Hussein, 12, killed in an Israeli army bombardment of Gaza, mourn beside his body at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 22, 2025
North Africa / 24 July 2025
What is behind Egypt’s inaction over the Gaza slaughter?
24 July 2025

For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE

Palestinians search for survivors amid the debris of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, July 15, 2025
Gaza / 15 July 2025
Israeli forces kill at least five in an attack on a Gaza refugee camp
15 July 2025
Sudanese displaced families take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman, Sudan, March 23, 2025
Northeast Africa / 11 July 2025
International court calls out crimes against humanity in Sudan
11 July 2025
Similar stories
DEFEATED: Kamala Harris holds up a phone as she phone banks
Features / 7 November 2024
Democracy was not on the ballot: the Democrats made sure of that
7 November 2024
In sordid tactics that ended up backfiring, Kamala Harris’s ‘nomination’ was the least democratic in history, while the party actively suppressed dissident voices online and its lawyers suppressed third-party candidates from the ballot box, says DENNIS BROE
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trum
Editorial: / 6 November 2024
Trump's back. How should the British left respond?
6 November 2024
STILL RESISTING: Thousands of government supporters attend a
Features / 2 November 2024
Cuba and the US presidential elections
2 November 2024
Canadian author and journalist KEITH BOLENDER is due to speak on the outcome of the US elections at meetings in November. Here, he anticipates what a new face in the Oval Office might mean for Cuba
Democratic US presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Har
Features / 8 October 2024
As the election approaches, can the US left endorse Kamala Harris?
8 October 2024
Donald Trump calls her ‘comrade Kamala’ and portrays her as a left-wing radical — but as a presidential candidate, Kamala Harris is endorsing more centrist positions than she did as a progressive senator, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER