A growing number of Democrats are worried that the expected anti-Israel protests at the party’s nominating convention in August could negatively impact President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, according to several who spoke to The Daily Caller.

Biden has faced criticism from his left flank over his support for Israel following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, which resulted in approximately 1,200 deaths. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is reportedly considering options to mitigate the impact of such protests at the convention. Dozens of organizations are set to join the “March on the DNC” when the event begins on August 19.

Several Democratic operatives are concerned that such protests could resemble the 1968 convention in Chicago, where Republican Richard Nixon went on to defeat Democrat Hubert Humphrey months later, the outlet reports.

“The anti-war protests in Chicago, fairly or unfairly, reinforced the reputation of the Democrats as the party of chaos, and reinforced Nixon’s pitch to the American people as the law and order candidate. And so I think those who ignore history are at risk of repeating it,” Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, told the DC.

“To the extent that people look at the images on their TV screens, or on their electronic digital devices, and see these rather unsympathetic protesters and associate them with the Democratic Party, it’s hard to see how it could have anything other than a deleterious effect on the campaign,” Foxwell noted further.

A Democratic pollster and redistricting consultant, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, is skeptical that former President Donald Trump could capitalize on the protests as Nixon did historically. However, the pollster acknowledged that Democrats are concerned, describing the historical context of the convention as “eerily reverberant.”

“It’s not that these people stopped the war in Vietnam, they elected Richard Nixon, who ran very specifically against them,” the pollster said. “This is exactly the context that everybody is worried about with the optics for the convention.”

Steve Shurtleff, a Democratic New Hampshire lawmaker and former speaker of the state House, told the DCNF that while pro-Palestinian activists have a right to protest, he hopes it “won’t turn into Chicago of 1968.”

“A bump that the president might get from the convention could be impacted by what’s happening on the streets, and I think of the ‘68 election, how close it was between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey … and I’ve often wondered if it had been a more peaceful convention, if [Humphry] could’ve gotten his message out to more people across America,” he said.