I think fight. Hope that helps!!!!!!
I think that there is a number missing here:

in the sense that

of the 24 members alreaday support the idea.

of 24 is
which means that 8 members already support the idea.
So if they need the support of 13 members, this means that they need 13-8=5, that is 5 more members.
North American and Eurasian.
Answer:
they try and make friends with in a sense and see to it that they have the politician thinking to to what they want most of the time this is accomplished through the interest group funding the candidates election in part
It’s earliest civilization did