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As the national political environment for Democrats shifts rapidly, Kamala Harris is teasing another run for president. At Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention, when a crowd began chanting “Run again!,” Harris smiled. “I might. I am thinking about it,” she said.

In recent months, apparently as an early step, Harris reportedly reached out to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and others on the Democratic left. She also called someone named James Zogby.

Zogby had been a leading voice warning Democrats in 2024 that their support for funding Israel’s war in Gaza would cost them the election. When Axios reported that Harris had privately called Zogby and others to try to mend the rift, he wouldn’t comment at the time. But in a recent interview, he confirmed the call to me—and said he liked what he heard. “We had a long talk,” he said, describing the call as Harris wanting to “correct the historical record” about what happened in 2024 and where her support lies. “I felt very—I felt very good about it. I think she’s a good person.”

I met Zogby—the head of the Arab American Institute and, at 80, a seasoned Arab activist—two years ago at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was trying to convince a band of activists and around 30 delegates of the Uncommitted National Movement, representing some 700,000 voters opposed to the war, that the Democratic Party might actually be listening to them.

For the first time in the party’s history, he noted then, the DNC had officially sanctioned a panel on Palestinian human rights. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric intensive care physician who had volunteered in Gaza, described the horrific scenes she witnessed. Hala Hijazi, a longtime Democratic organizer, talked about relatives she had lost. Layla Elabed, one of the co-founders of the “uncommitted movement,” sat on the panel alongside Zogby, who had been having versions of this fight inside the Democratic Party for almost four decades. “We’ve come a long way,” he told the crowd, explaining what it meant that the conversation was happening at all. “It is something I do not want to dismiss for a minute as to how significant this is, about what message the Harris campaign is sending by saying, ‘We want to talk about this and........

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