{"id":124639,"date":"2024-11-11T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124639"},"modified":"2024-11-11T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:32:26","slug":"trump-breaks-gop-losing-streak-in-nations-largest-majority-arab-city-with-a-pivotal-final-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124639","title":{"rendered":"Trump breaks GOP losing streak in nation&#8217;s largest majority-Arab city with a pivotal final week"},"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>\n<p>DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Faced with <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harris-trump-mideast-gaza-hezbollah-hamas-623945957dac623c238041242e13340a\">two choices<\/a><\/span> she didn\u2019t like, Suehaila Amen chose neither.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the longtime Democrat from the Arab American stronghold of Dearborn, Michigan, backed a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/election-2024-us-muslim-voters-georgia-trump-harris-stein-5c5c207fc9660c07b7c2fcd7e749e827\">third-party candidate<\/a><\/span> for president, adding her voice to a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kamala-harris-gaza-arab-americans-2b698c34863aa1ec5956d9536479d115\">remarkable turnaround<\/a><\/span> that helped Donald Trump reclaim Michigan and the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In Dearborn, where nearly half of the 110,000 residents are of Arab descent, Vice President Kamala Harris received over 2,500 fewer votes than Trump, who became the first Republican presidential candidate since former President George W. Bush in 2000 to win the city. Harris also lost neighboring Dearborn Heights to Trump, who in his previous term as president banned <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3a20abe305bd4c989116f82bf535393b\">travel from several mostly-Muslim countries<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris lost the presidential vote in two Detroit-area cities with large Arab American populations after months of warnings from local Democrats about the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s unwavering support for Israel in the war in Gaza. Some said they backed Trump after he visited a few days before the election, mingling with customers and staff at a Lebanese-owned restaurant and reassuring people that he would find a way to end the violence in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>Others, including Amen, were unable to persuade themselves to back the former president. She said many Arab Americans felt Harris got what she deserved but aren\u2019t \u201cjubilant about Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s Trump himself or the people who are around him, it does pose a great deal of concern for me,\u201d Amen said. \u201cBut at the end of the day when you have two evils running, what are you left with?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As it became clear late Tuesday into early Wednesday that Trump would not only win the presidency but likely prevail in Dearborn, the mood in metro Detroit\u2019s Arab American communities was described by Dearborn City Council member Mustapha Hammoud as \u201csomber.\u201d And yet, he said, the result was \u201cnot surprising at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shift in Dearborn \u2014 where Trump received nearly 18,000 votes compared with Harris\u2019 15,000 \u2014 marks a startling change from just four years ago when Joe Biden won in the city by a nearly 3-to-1 margin. <\/p>\n<h2>No one should be surprised<\/h2>\n<p>The results didn\u2019t come <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harris-arab-muslim-michigan-election-trump-lebanon-israel-palestine-2eb34bd82c8665cae43c6a91196959c0\">out of nowhere<\/a><\/span>. For months, in phone calls and meetings with top Democratic officials, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-michigan-arab-american-reelection-bb86bc0059a6ea33fee8a1ec1b0ac743\">local leaders warned<\/a><\/span>, in blunt terms, that Arab American voters would turn against them if the administration\u2019s handling of the Israel-Hamas war didn\u2019t change.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration has remained a staunch ally of Israel since the brutal Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took over 200 hostages. The war between <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">Israel and Hamas<\/a><\/span> has killed more than 43,000 people in Gaza, Palestinian health officials say. They do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<p>While Harris softened her rhetoric on the war, she didn\u2019t propose concrete policies toward Israel or the war in Gaza that varied from the administration\u2019s position. And even if she had, that might not have made much of a difference in places like Dearborn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll she had to do was stop the war in Lebanon and Gaza and she would receive everyone\u2019s votes here,\u201d said Hammoud.<\/p>\n<p>More voters thought Trump would be better able to handle the situation in the Middle East than Harris, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. About half of voters named Trump as better suited, compared with about a third who said Harris.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 election: Turning promises into policy: Americans frustrated over high prices await the change Trump has promised. 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Support us. <\/i><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Donate to the AP<\/i><\/a><\/span><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Among those who opposed more aid for Israel, 58% backed Harris in the presidential election; 39% supported Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Even some Harris voters had their doubts. About three-quarters of Harris voters in Michigan said she was the better candidate to handle the situation. Few preferred Trump, but about 2 in 10 Harris voters said they were equivalent or neither would be better.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of support for Harris in the Arab American community, Trump and his allies stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>A key part of Michigan\u2019s electorate \u2014 a state Trump won by nearly 11,000 votes in 2016 before he lost it by nearly 154,000 to Biden in 2020 \u2014 Arab Americans spent months meeting with Trump allies, who encouraged community leaders to endorse him.<\/p>\n<p>Things began to move in September, when Amer Ghalib, the Democratic Muslim mayor of the city of Hamtramck, endorsed Trump. Shortly after, Trump visited a campaign office there.<\/p>\n<p>That was a turning point, said Massad Boulos, the father of Trump\u2019s son-in-law who led his outreach with Arab Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey very, very much appreciated the president\u2019s visit and the respect that they felt,\u201d said Boulos. \u201cThat was the first big achievement, so to speak. After that, I started getting endorsements from imams and Muslim leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>An apparent shift toward Trump in final week<\/h2>\n<p>While support for Harris had been <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arab-americans-reject-biden-election-michigan-palestinians-3c176d111286e767a48d51eef53d50e1\">declining for months<\/a><\/span> \u2014 especially after her campaign <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uncommitted-palestinian-convention-harris-918812eb0e19b9669f8b9b9cd88c6360\">did not allow<\/a><\/span> a pro-Palestinian speaker to take the stage at August\u2019s Democratic National Convention \u2014 some voters say the last week of the campaign was pivotal.<\/p>\n<p>At an Oct. 30 rally in Michigan, former President Bill Clinton said Hamas uses civilians as shields and will \u201cforce you to kill civilians if you want to defend yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians, they wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, I got news for them, they were there first, before their faith existed, they were there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign wanted Clinton to visit Dearborn to speak in the days following the rally, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions who were not authorized to speak on them. The potential visit never materialized after backlash over Clinton\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat comment was the talk of the town. It hurt many like me, who loved him,\u201d said Amin Hashmi, who was born in Pakistan and lives in suburban Detroit. A self-proclaimed \u201cdie-hard Dem,\u201d Hashmi said casting a ballot for Trump \u201cwas a seismic move\u201d that came after he stood in the voting booth for 25 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>On the Friday before the election, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-dearborn-michigan-arab-americans-e5209f39724d17c500d5ae3d5e4fc830\">Trump visited<\/a><\/span> The Great Commoner in Dearborn, the Lebanese-owned restaurant. That stood in sharp contrast with Harris, who met with Dearborn\u2019s Democratic mayor, Abdullah Hammoud \u2014 who didn\u2019t endorse in the race \u2014 but never came to Dearborn herself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came up to Dearborn. He spoke with residents. Whether some people say it wasn\u2019t genuine, he still made the effort. He did reach out and try to work with them, at least listen to them,\u201d said Samia Hamid, a Dearborn resident.<\/p>\n<p>Amen said that at polling places in Dearborn on Tuesday, \u201cpeople were coming out and saying they were either voting third party or they were voting for Trump.\u201d When she asked what led them to support Trump, \u201cthey said, at least he came out here and he talked to us, he acknowledged our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Arab American support didn\u2019t propel him to the White House, Trump has made several promises that stuck in voters\u2019 minds. Mainly, they\u2019ll be watching to see if he\u2019ll follow through on his vow to end the war. <\/p>\n<p>They also hope his next term will differ from his first, when he enacted the travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries. His rhetoric on that score has been mixed \u2014 he even pledged to expand the ban to refugees from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Osama Siblani, publisher of Arab American News based in Dearborn, said people will \u201chold him accountable.\u201d Regardless, Siblani added, the community \u201csurvived the first four years\u201d of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will survive the next four,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Cappelletti reported from Detroit. 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