Voters of Arab descent could hurt Vice President Kamala Harris' chances of winning a combined 31 electoral votes in key battleground states of Michigan and Georgia.
Arab-American voters, who typically vote Democratic by a 2-to-1 ratio, favored Harris less following the administration's handling of the Hamas-Israel war that spread to Lebanon this month and involved the Iranian proxy terrorist group Hezbollah. not present. .
Recent Arab American Institute public opinion poll The results showed that former President Trump has a four-point lead over Harris among Arab voters nationwide. In 2020, President Joe Biden won 60% of the vote.
The Peach State has one of the fastest growing Arab-American populations in the country, with approximately 43,000 people of Arab descent, according to the Census Bureau. According to the Arab American Institute Foundation, there are approximately 80,000 Arab Americans. live Approximately 50,000 people live in Georgia, and approximately 50,000 people live in Atlanta.
There are also many Arabs living in Michigan. According to the Associated Press, Dearborn, Michigan, has the nation's largest Arab-American population (110,000). represent Approximately 3 percent of the Wolverine State's population. In 2020, Biden held a roughly 3-1 edge in Dearborn.
“Even small shifts in community support can have an incredibly large impact on the final outcome,” said David Dulio, a political science professor at Oakland University in Michigan. hill. “This is just one part of the coalition, but it plays an important role.”
“We have a dual problem that we have to deal with, both the ongoing situation in Gaza and the emerging situation in Lebanon,” said Jim Zogby, founding director of the Arab American Association. said of hill. “If you’re losing some of your non-white voters, you’re losing some of your younger voters, you’re losing a significant portion of your Arab-American voters, I don’t know where Harris’s majority came from. I don’t know if it is.”
Georgia Rep. Ruwa Lonman (Democratic), who supports Harris, believes the Harris campaign's public relations efforts are inadequate.
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“The liaison officers are doing their best, but they are not the decision makers. But the concern right now is that the decision makers are not engaging directly with the community,” he said. hill. “Her team is doing outreach and they're working day and night compared to the Biden campaign. …But if you're someone who wants the bombs to stop, and the candidate is Yes, I'm going to stop the bomb,' and if that doesn't happen, you lose hope.”
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump took steps to appeal to Arab voters. Trump's campaign has targeted ads to the Arab community, including former director of national intelligence Richard Grenell and Tiffany Trump's father-in-law, Lebanese-American businessman Massad Boulos. We are working to spread this awareness.
“His level of outreach has been consistent and repeated, and the fact that this outreach is saying that we value and value our community and that we deserve a seat at the table. It’s not something that happened from the other side,” Samler said. said Lukman, a Michigan Democratic activist and current supporter of Trump. hill.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. he is the author of politics of slave morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
