Most of Michigan's “neutral” communities that protested the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war during the Democratic primary are reportedly not going to support Vice President Kamala Harris in the general election.
Ryan Grimm, Counterargument points Editor Drop Site News, Written In a Friday newsletter on Substack, the group wrote that the mood towards Harris was chilly at a meeting of the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in the heavily Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan.
Much of the talk at the meeting was about whether the community would support Kamala Harris in the general election, and the consensus seemed to be that the majority would. Don't do that. Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who is ahead of Harris in several polls of local Muslim voters, spoke on opening night and received an extremely warm welcome.
Michigan in particular is where the independent movement began: The “Listen to Michigan Voices” campaign aimed to garner 10,000 independent votes in the Democratic primary to protest against the Biden-Harris administration's calls for a ceasefire in the war.
“Listen to Michigan” far surpassed its goal, garnering 100,000 votes for undecided choices and closing in on the 154,188 vote margin that Biden won in Michigan over former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The movement includes Muslims, Arab Americans, younger voters and far-left progressives.
In Dearborn, Biden actually lost by a large margin to an independent candidate, who received 6,432 votes (57%) to Biden's 4,526 (40%).
The Biden-Harris administration's failure to secure a ceasefire led to the movement spreading to other states, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Furthermore, even after the non-binding movement made waves in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, President Biden signed a bill in April to send $26.3 billion in defense aid to Israel.
Divisions on the left remain, if not worsened, even though Harris replaced Biden as the top candidate in July. In her first interview with CNN in more than a month since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, Harris highlighted her and Biden's policies on Israel.
She initially dodged a question from CNN's Dana Bash about the possibility of “blocking some U.S. arms shipments to Israel,” before Bash asked, “But is there no change in policy on weapons and so on?”
“No, we have to get a deal done,” Harris said.
“Since taking office on October 8, I have remained committed to what we must do to ensure Israel is safe and to work towards a two-state solution in which Palestinians have equal security, self-determination and dignity,” she added.
Grimm analyzed the interview the following day while hosting the show. Breaking Point Joined by regular show host Crystal Ball, he dug deeper into Bash's use of “some” in his question.
“The Biden administration has even said it will restrict some weapons, such as 2,000-pound bombs that can be used for offensive purposes,” he said.
“People keep saying Harris has better rhetoric and she has more empathy. Where is the empathy when you haven't actually supported even the smallest of concessions that the Biden administration, her administration, has made,” he added.
Grimm's report on Friday comes as polling by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) shows Harris losing among Michigan's Muslim voters to Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Trump.
The survey found that 40 percent of Muslim respondents supported Stein, 18 percent supported Trump and 12 percent supported Harris, with a further 21 percent undecided.
The United Arab Emirates classifies CAIR as a terrorist organization, and, as Breitbart News points out, a US federal judge ruled in 2009 that evidence existed that “proved” CAIR had ties to Hamas.
From 2007 to 2008, CAIR name Unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Relief and Development Foundation terrorism financing trial. The case was brought by the F.B.I. Cancel In 2009, a federal judge The verdict was given The UAE argues that the government has “presented sufficient evidence to establish” CAIR's ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. With labels In 2014, CAIR was designated a terrorist organization (a decision made by the Obama administration). Opposed).
The CAIR/Molitical Consulting LLC survey, conducted Aug. 25-27, included 1,478 responses, “of which 1,076 were verified and checked against national voter files,” with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.95 percentage points.
