President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the Arab-American majority community of Dearborn, Michigan, which he lost by a wide margin to President Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump was declared the winner of Michigan and its 15 electors, completing the sweep of Rust Belt battleground states. One major trend in the Wolverine State shows that Vice President Kamala Harris lost significant support among Arab American voters in 2020 compared to President Joe Biden.
Unofficial results from Dearborn broadcast by BBC memo The majority of the population is Arab, and President Trump landed Harris received 17,796 votes and 15,189, marking a seismic shift compared to 2020. Meanwhile, the Green Party's Jill Stein received 7,697 votes.
Last cycle, Biden doubled Trump received 30,718 votes and 13,239 votes.
This trend appears to be driven by deep dissatisfaction with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Middle East conflict. In Michigan's Democratic primary, the “Listen Michigan” campaign sought to gather 10,000 noncommittal votes to protest the administration's policies.
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The primary vote was intended to serve as a warning to Democrats that these voters would not vote for Democratic candidates in the general election unless a ceasefire was achieved.
The group missed its goal as more than 100,000 Democrats voted irresponsibly in the primary, and the movement expanded to the national level. And since Biden and Harris failed to reach a cease-fire agreement, the Dearborn survey results suggest that many Arab Americans appear to be keeping their pledge not to vote Democratic. .
Mr. Stein received a significant portion of Mr. Dearborn's support, which flowed to Mr. Biden in 2020. She was a prominent pro-Palestinian advocate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which was clouded by protests over the Middle East conflict, and was well supported in opinion polls. Arab Americans in recent months.
Additionally, while Arab-heavy communities such as Dearborn and Hamtramck are located in Wayne County, Oakland County, which also has a large Arab-American population, saw the vote total swing significantly in Trump's favor compared to 2020. , left the Democratic Party.
Trump received 337,592 votes in Oakland County, still less than 5% of the vote, according to New York Times election results as of noon Thursday. This is 11,621 more votes than his 325,971 votes. received In 2020.
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Conversely, Harris' 419,121 votes are 15,027 fewer than Biden's 434,148 votes in Oakland County four years ago. times. Overall, Oakland County has moved a net 3.5 percentage points toward Trump since the last cycle, while Wayne County has moved a staggering 9.9 percentage points toward Trump and away from Democrats.
Hamtramck Mayor Amir Gharib (D), who supported Trump after dissatisfaction with Biden and Harris over a lack of policy change, said in an interview with SiriusXM's Breitbart News on Saturday, He spoke about the impact of changes in power relations within the state's Arab community on state politics. result.
“So the presidential candidate will win Michigan by as little as 10,000 or 20,000 votes, which we've seen in the past that some candidates will.” Said. “Therefore, there is no doubt that this number is an important number that will have a big impact, especially in close and battleground states like this one, and 20,000 to 30,000 votes will be a major deciding factor in the outcome of this election. And especially if you get those votes in an election,” a community that never supported you. So this is a big change. ”
At the time of writing this article, new york times According to election results, Trump received 82,128 more votes than Harris in the state.
