Political analyst weighs in on how country-wide college protests of Israel-Hamas war impacts upcoming elections [Video]

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The encampments and protests on college campuses across the country regarding the Israel-Hamas war are happening as several states are gearing up for their primaries.

As the general election nears, associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, Alex Keena, said the protests are a major conflict that President Joe Biden must deal with.

“You can’t discount the fact that this is an election year and Biden won in 2020, thanks in part to a lopsided margin of victory with young people,” Keena said. “In political science, there’s often been this rule that young people don’t vote as much. But this generation of young people actually seems to defy that rule. So, their votes are more important than ever to a candidate like Joe Biden.”

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He said young people making their voices heard are very …