{"id":118866,"date":"2024-10-27T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118866"},"modified":"2024-10-27T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:11:45","slug":"trump-in-michigan-makes-play-for-arab-american-and-muslim-voters-angry-over-war-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118866","title":{"rendered":"Trump in Michigan makes play for Arab American and Muslim voters angry over war in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">Novi, Michigan<\/span><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qna7ev004a25qo545t1cbj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">President Donald Trump<\/a> on Saturday invited several Muslim leaders onstage with him at a campaign rally in Michigan as he courts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/19\/politics\/president-election-michigan-harris-trump\/index.html\">Arab American and Muslim voters<\/a> disillusioned or angry over US policy on Israel and Gaza in the critical battleground state.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y900093b6mwiqcvl80@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey could turn the election one way or the other,\u201d Trump said in the Detroit suburb of Novi, located about a half hour from Dearborn, which last year became the first Arab-majority city in the US.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000a3b6mfzw0lsjf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump said in his speech that he had held a meeting earlier in the day with Muslim leaders. He was joined onstage by what his campaign described as \u201cprominent leaders of Michigan\u2019s Muslim community,\u201d including Imam Belal Alzuhairi, who described Trump as the \u201cpeace\u201d candidate.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000b3b6m003bxy8h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe, as Muslims, stand with President Trump because he promises peace \u2013 he promises peace, not war,\u201d Alzuhairi said. \u201cWe are supporting Donald Trump because he promised to end war in the Middle East and Ukraine.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000c3b6m52ths09i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump has criticized Israel\u2019s war in Gaza on public relations grounds, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military need to \u201cget it over with fast.\u201d He has also slammed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/joe-biden\">President Joe Biden<\/a> and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/25\/politics\/harris-reproductive-rights-texas-beyonce\/index.html\">Kamala Harris<\/a> for not adequately supporting Israel, though the current administration \u2013 and Harris\u2019 campaign \u2013 has largely refused to criticize Israel or consider halting weapons shipments to the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000d3b6m2btp70tw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on the first anniversary of Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023, attacks inside Israel, Trump mused about real estate prospects in beleaguered Gaza, home to roughly 2 million Palestinians.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000e3b6mveogb1a4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou know, as a developer, it could be the most beautiful place \u2013 the weather, the water, the whole thing, the climate,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt could be so beautiful.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000f3b6mqjet0pji@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During his first month as president, in 2017, Trump issued\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/28\/politics\/text-of-trump-executive-order-nation-ban-refugees\/index.html\">an executive order<\/a>\u00a0banning entry for 90 days by citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The order indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and blocked all refugees from entering the US for four months. (After a lengthy court battle, the \u201ctravel ban\u201d survived in part. Biden revoked the orders in 2021 immediately after being sworn in.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000g3b6mfgyx26cv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Trump campaign and its allies, though, have sought to seize on Arab American and Muslim anger over continued US support for Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza and, more recently, Lebanon, by criticizing Harris and Biden from both sides \u2013 telling anti-war voters that Trump would secure peace and claiming to pro-Israel voters that the Democrats don\u2019t have their back.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000h3b6m6l2cr4di@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/08\/politics\/trump-jewish-american-comments\/index.html\">has frequently questioned<\/a>\u00a0why Jewish Americans would consider voting for Harris, repeatedly saying that Jewish Democrats \u201cshould have their head examined.\u201d At an event in September billed as opposing antisemitism, he even warned that \u201cthe Jewish people would have a lot to do\u201d with his potential loss in November.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000i3b6me8uohx05@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris, who has called for a ceasefire in Gaza and has said she supports a two-state solution in the region, has taken more heat from pro-Palestinian and anti-war activists, who have pleaded with her to break from Biden and say she supports conditioning military aid to Israel.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000j3b6mkqnedgnj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/04\/politics\/arab-muslim-americans-michigan-harris\/index.html\">a brief meeting three weeks ago<\/a> in Flint, Michigan, a group of Arab American advocates and leaders pressed Harris \u201cto show distance between how she would govern on this matter with the current administration policies, which we don\u2019t agree with,\u201d as\u00a0Wa\u2019el Alzayat, the CEO of Muslim American advocacy group\u00a0Emgage Action, told CNN afterward.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000k3b6mfuwvqe9l@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump at his rally on Saturday claimed that \u201cJews, Catholics, evangelicals, Mormons, Muslims are joining our cause in larger numbers than ever before and now the most wonderful thing is happening.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000l3b6mjdr46vle@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe Muslim and Arab voters in Michigan and across the country want a stop to the endless wars and a return to peace in the Middle East. That\u2019s all they want,\u201d Trump said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qnb8y9000m3b6m88d7xzek@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Trump also, again, used Harris\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/21\/politics\/kamala-harris-liz-cheney-blue-wall-tour\/index.html\">recent round of campaigning alongside<\/a> former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, whose father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, was one of the leading architects of the US invasion of Iraq and the yearslong war that followed. Both Cheneys have endorsed Harris.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qqjnjt00023b6mddjg9vso@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hours later, Harris, while campaigning in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was interrupted early in her speech by a protester, who shouted, \u201cNo more Gaza war.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qqjv9400063b6m140ngdmn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cOn the topic of Gaza, we must end that war. And we must end the war and bring the hostages home,\u201d Harris said, as the audience tried to drown out the demonstrator.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qqph7h00093b6mcjtix64i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>This story has been updated with additional information.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm2qqq87g000c3b6mdavjoidq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s Alison Main contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/26\/politics\/muslim-leaders-michigan-trump-endorse\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novi, Michigan CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Former President Donald Trump on Saturday invited several Muslim leaders onstage with him at a campaign rally in Michigan as he courts Arab American and Muslim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118866\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}