Mike Memoli is an NBC News correspondent.
WASHINGTON — Activists at odds with President Joe Biden over his handling of Israel’s war with Hamas are planning to shift the focus of their pressure campaign from the ballot box to the Democratic Party platform at this summer’s nominating convention in Chicago. The Biden campaign is anticipating the effort, which could extend a bruising, and divisive, political battle over several months to the Democratic National Convention, according to multiple activists and party insiders.
Positions on DNC standing committees like the one that writes the platform are appointed and the process will be entirely controlled by Biden’s team. “The fix is in,” said Jim Zogby, a former longtime DNC member, leader of the Arab-American community and former Sanders strategist. 'All the Platform Committee people are going to be picked by the campaign and the White House.
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