Some Arab- and Muslin-American leaders endorsed Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign rally Saturday in Novi, Michigan.
The endorsements are notable in the important thing swing state that’s residence to greater than 200,000 Muslim-American voters. In line with RealClearPolitics’ polling common, Trump holds the narrowest of leads over Harris in Michigan, 47.9% to 47.7%.
“We’re winning overwhelming support from the Muslim and Arab voters right here in Michigan,” Trump instructed the gang.
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That help from Muslim leaders contains Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib and Dearborn Heights Mayor Invoice Bazzi, in addition to Imam Belal Alzuhairi.
Saturday’s rally occurred lower than 24 hours after Israel struck Iran with strategically focused missiles the evening earlier than. The continuing turmoil within the Center East was among the many causes the Muslim and Arab leaders cited of their endorsement of the previous president.
“We are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine,” Alzuhairi mentioned. “The bloodshed has to stop all over the world, and I think this man can make that happen.”
Alzuhairi added, “I personally believe that God saved his life twice for a reason,” referring to the 2 unsuccessful assassination makes an attempt towards Trump’s life.
Two latest polls point out that many Arab- and Muslim-Individuals, historically voting blocs for Democrats. are drifting away from Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris because the Biden-Harris administration struggles to stability U.S. help for Israel with appeasing a major anti-Israel faction inside the Democratic Get together.
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In a single ballot of 500 Arab American registered voters performed by The Arab American Institute, Trump and Harris had been almost break up, 42-41%, a drop in help from the extent Democrats obtained in 2020, as The Middle Sq. beforehand reported.
Within the different performed in late August, The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) launched a ballot exhibiting American Muslim voters supporting Inexperienced Get together presidential candidate Jill Stein and Harris equally, at 29% every, with Trump at 12%. In Michigan, the ballot discovered that 40% of Muslim voters help Stein, 18% help Trump, and simply 12% help Harris.
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