Former President Donald Trump’s allies reportedly say polls show President Joe Biden winning overwhelmingly with Arab American and Muslim voters in key battleground states. It is reported that the organization is working to engage Arab American activists and donors.
The Washington Post Columnist Josh Rogin report On Monday, “Arab American donors and activists from across the country will gather in Oakland Hills, Michigan for a private dinner hosted by President Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence Rick Grenell.” Those in attendance included Michael Boulos, who is married to Tiffany Trump, and his father, Dr. Massad Boulos.
insider Note Mr Boulos is the CEO of SCOA Nigeria PLC. of new york times Before report He also heads a vehicle assembly and distribution company called Boulos Enterprises in Nigeria. Michael was born in Lebanon and raised in Nigeria.
Logan pointed out that the dinner would come shortly after the event. times poll Displaying Muslim and Arab Americans reportedly fled from Biden to Trump in key battleground states.
An average of polls in six battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – showed Trump winning a whopping 57% of the vote among Muslim and Arab-American voters, compared to Biden. received less than half of that vote, at 25%.
“A New York Times/Siena College poll released last week showed Donald Trump leading Biden 57-25 among Arab and Muslim voters in five key battleground states. Ta.
Those who said they voted in 2020 reported backing Biden 56-35 at the time. ” https://t.co/zPM7HdFWnA
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“Those who say they voted in the 2020 election report supporting Biden by a similar but opposite margin of 56-35.” times Chief political analyst Nate Cohn reported on May 13th. carried out From April 28 to May 9, we sampled 4,097 registered voters.
As Rogan reported, some of the dinner attendees already supported Trump, while others expressed the possibility of supporting him.
Sam Assad Hanna, a Syrian American activist scheduled to attend, is running a grassroots campaign to get Trump to vote in several battleground states.
“What we’re seeing right now in Gaza and throughout the region has set things back decades. Everybody’s wondering, how can we change this? What can we do?” he told Logan. “That’s why people, including me, are now more enthusiastic about supporting Trump’s return to power.”
by postDr. Yahya Basha, a Michigan resident (not yet decided), helped organize the dinner.
“It’s too early to say that Mr. Trump is that person. That’s why we host events for his representatives, how he views the community, and how he views the community. To see what he would do,” Basha told Logan. “and [the Biden] I expected better policies from the government, but unfortunately they did not materialize. ”
The meeting and Trump’s apparent reach with Muslim and Arab American voters comes as Biden’s reelection chances are being seriously threatened by discontent within those communities and other voting blocs on the left, such as young voters and progressives, over his handling of Israel’s war with Hamas and its impact in Gaza. Those discontents have not gone away despite Biden’s apparent efforts to appeal to those voters, having come out in support of Israel following Hamas terror attacks in October.
There is no clearer evidence than the persistence of the non-commitment movement, with more than 500,000 Democratic primary voters calling themselves “uncommitted” or “uninstructed” in key battlegrounds and deep-blue Democratic primaries. They are voting to protest Biden’s handling of the war. state.
The drive began late Tuesday at a reported meeting for the “Listen to Michigan Voices” campaign, which aimed to garner 10,000 independent votes to call for a ceasefire and protest Biden’s handling of the war in the Feb. 27 primary. The goal was a huge success, with more than 100,000 Michiganders choosing the “independent” option.
For comparison, the margin between Trump and Biden in Michigan in 2020 was 154,188 votes, and the campaign’s website points out that the threat to Biden is that these voters will sit out the general election.
“These primaries are an early litmus test of how badly Biden’s stance on Gaza will hurt his reelection. It’s not about them voting, it’s about them not voting at all,” hear on Michigan’s website state.
Losing 100,000 votes in a state Trump won in 2016 would be a huge risk for Biden, especially since polls currently show Biden narrowly trailing Trump in Michigan in a three-way race with Robert F. Kennedy. The polling average as of Tuesday was 538. Indicated Trump had 41.4%, Biden 40.3% and Kennedy Jr. 8.7%.
The movement spread to other Rust Belt states, including Minnesota and Wisconsin, in the weeks that followed. On Super Tuesday, 45,914 Minnesotans, or nearly one in five Democratic primary voters, rejected Biden with an unqualified ballot; The state’s residents followed suit with a “no-instruction” vote. Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by just 20,682 votes, less than half of the unindicated votes, and Trump came within 1.5 percentage points of winning Minnesota in 2016.
Days after the Wisconsin primary, Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for a ceasefire, but the move failed to quell the protest vote. The anti-Biden campaign continued in the Pennsylvania primary on April 23, with a coalition called Uncommitted PA aiming to garner 40,000 protest votes in a write-in campaign. Although the breakdown of write-in votes is unknown, more than 60,000 voters cast their votes. cast write vote, and uncommitted PA Claim We exceeded our goal. Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 by just 81,660 votes.
The next day, April 24, Biden signed a bill that would send “$26 billion in aid to Israel and about $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza,” as reported by the Associated Press. I got it.. He has since threatened to suspend the weapons in the package if Israeli forces enter Rafah.
But on May 14, following a threat to withhold aid, another round of unwarranted embarrassment occurred in deep-blue Maryland. As of Tuesday, new york times Election results showed that the uncommitted option received 57,901 votes, but received only 87 percent of the vote. report.
For Mr. Biden, the election remains difficult, given the grim numbers in polls among Arab Americans and Muslims, especially as Mr. Trump’s surrogates have met with Arab American activists in key battleground states. It’s been 6 months and time is running out to resolve the issue.
