Former US vice president Kamala Harris reportedly held a call last week with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and has been holding lengthy meetings with other prominent progressives, including pro-Palestinian activists, as she weighs another presidential run in 2028.

Harris called the mayor on Thursday, two days after the candidates he backed swept three New York congressional primaries earlier this month, holding a long conversation and discussing the future of the Democratic Party, a person familiar with the call told the Axios news outlet on Wednesday.

The two have also been texting over the past few months, the report said.

In all three of last week’s races, Israel was a central issue, and the more hardline Israel critics won. The candidates all won primaries in Democratic House districts, meaning they are nearly certain to win the general election in November and enter Congress.

Harris appears determined to improve her ties with progressives, who were critical of her during the previous race for not doing more to advance the Palestinian cause.

The Harris campaign had rejected a demand from the “Uncommitted Movement,” which had refused to endorse her, to have a Palestinian speaker at the 2024 Democratic Party Convention.

Harris’s recent meetings have included ones with Uncommitted co-founder Abbas Alawieh and Democratic National Committee member James Zogby, who has been a longtime advocate for........

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