Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Israeli elections and movement in Democratic primaries
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Haaretz: Israel Election 2019: Netanyahu Fails to Secure Majority, Gantz Leads, Arabs Surge, Exit Polls Show Two exit polls show Kahol Lavan overtaking Likud, one poll has them tied ■ Labor Party, Democratic Union make it in ■ Kahanist party wiped offAbbreviated Pundit Round-up: Israeli elections and movement in Democratic primaries
Haaretz: Israel Election 2019: Netanyahu Fails to Secure Majority, Gantz Leads, Arabs Surge, Exit Polls Show Two exit polls show Kahol Lavan overtaking Likud, one poll has them tied ■ Labor Party, Democratic Union make it in ■ Kahanist party wiped off political map xEarly signs suggest @Netanyahu miscalculated - targeting #Arab voters only produced huge #Arab turnout while he seems to have failed to swallow enough right-wing voters to make #Likud largest party. Fact that #Putin helped him more than #Trump had to be major disappointment.— Robert Satloff (@robsatloff) September 17, 2019 Here is the Putin reference: His ties to Putin, in particular, are seen by him as important in pulling in votes from Israel’s large community of Russian speakers. xBREAKING: In first post elections speech Netanyahu refuses to concede. blames the media for biased coverage— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) September 18, 2019 Since establishing a coalition is who “wins”, it will be a while before we know who that is. There are lots of moving parts. Netanyahu opponents intensely dislike each other, and unity moves may lose them voting members. Of course, they intensely dislike him as well, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯. We won’t know who won for a while (think in days, maybe weeks). But it’s clear that Netanyahu lost his bid for a majority. Read more