CNN and Erin Burnett called out the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday night for appearing to play both sides of the conflict in Israel for targeting battleground state voters with conflicting messages.

On OutFront, Burnett was joined by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski to discuss his investigation of the “fine line that the Harris campaign is trying to walk” while trying to court the Arab vote in Michigan and the Jewish vote in Pennsylvania.

Burnett aired an ad that is currently running in Michigan in which Harris declares, “What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent.”

A network chyron read, “HARRIS CAMPAIGN’S MESSAGE ON ISREAL-GAZA DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LIVE.”

Burnett commented, “Well, it’s a very different story for an ad in Pennsylvania targeting Jewish voters.

In the Pennsylvania ad, Harris says, “Let me be clear: I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. Because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7th.”

Burnett welcomed Kaczynski aboard to discuss his investigation while she noted the tones of both ads were “historically different.” Kaczynski commented:

Yeah, that’s right. And look, this really illustrates the sort of fine line that the Harris campaign is trying to walk here in the closing weeks closing days of this campaign on the issue of Israel. Here you have two entirely different constituencies, and they are getting two entirely different messages there. Oftentimes, these constituencies have very opposing views on this.

If you are a Jewish person in Pennsylvania, you saw that ad that you’re getting. You are getting that ad that talks about how strong, strong she is in Israel. If you’re a Muslim voter in Michigan, you are getting that ad on Facebook that’s talking about talking about how she won’t be silent on the issue of Gaza. Now, what’s really interesting here is that ad that we that we just played, the one that’s going to judge Jewish voters in Pennsylvania.

Kaczynski pointed out that the ad Pennsylvanians are seeing was from the Democratic National Committee and was edited to remove comments Harris made in support of the Palestinians.

The CNN investigative reporter concluded, “So this is a really delicate issue for her.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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