House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is pressing President Joe Biden to visit a growing pro-Palestinian protest on Columbia University’s campus, lamenting there has been a “vacuum of leadership” as the student encampment continues to garner national attention.
Johnson said he contacted the White House shortly after making his own visit to Columbia last week with a plea to the president to visit the campus and see the protests for himself. The speaker said he spoke with a senior policy adviser and “did not connect immediately” with Biden on the issue.
“This is not a gray issue. There is right and wrong here,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “There’s good and evil, in my view, and we need to call it out for what it is.”
The Washington Examiner contacted the White House for comment. Biden was in New York
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