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Could Arab American and Muslim voters cost Biden the 2024 election?
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Feb 28, 2024 05:08pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | They're a small voting bloc but could make the difference in Michigan.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden won the Democratic primary in Michigan with 81 percent of the vote — and yet it was his opponents who claimed victory.
At least 100,000 Democrats in the Great Lakes State voted for “uncommitted,” a protest vote driven in large part by dissatisfaction with Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Multiple groups had urged voters to reject Biden due to his support for Israel in the conflict, and the “uncommitted” vote was particularly high in heavily Arab American and Muslim cities such as Dearborn (where “uncommitted” actually defeated Biden 56 percent to 40 percent).
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...many Arab Americans and Muslims were persuadable voters even before the Israel-Hamas war broke out on Oct. 7, 2023. And Biden’s response to the conflict has greatly alienated them from the Democratic Party. According to a John Zogby Strategies/Arab American Institute poll conducted Oct. 23-27, Trump led Biden 40 percent to 17 percent among Arab American voters. And Arab Americans also disapproved of Biden’s response to the violence in Palestine and Israel 67 percent to 24 percent.
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For the first time since at least 1996, more Arab Americans also identified as Republicans than as Democrats... |
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