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Summary

In Wayne County, Arab American precincts rejected Kamala Harris, with Biden receiving 82% of the vote in 2020 and Harris only 23% in 2024.

Trump’s outreach to Arab American and Muslim communities, including visits to Dearborn and Hamtramck, contributed to his increased support.

Harris’s performance in Dearborn, where she received only 13% of the vote in the south end, reflects the backlash against Biden’s handling of foreign policy in the Middle East.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is crazy because typically Republicans are more supportive of Israel..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To Arabs with families in Gaza the worst is already happening. Entire branches of families have been wiped out. Trump quite literally can not be any worse for them than Biden. And Harris failed to meaningfully distance herself from Biden's policies on Gaza. So they stayed home. This isn't shocking, it's an entirely human response.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You're welcome to hold an opinion. I could have believed you were ill informed and not actively acting in bad faith.

You continued responding after this comment was posted illustrating how you were actively lying and trying to subvert the facts.

https://midwest.social/post/19205574/13516874

It's very clear from those paying attention she did take a different position from the same as Trump.

Stop lying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

First of all I'm not omniscient. I don't see everything that's posted. But please go read what I said again. I did not say I believed her stance to be the same as Biden's. I said she failed to meaningfully separate herself from Biden's policies.

She said the exact same thing Biden was saying while he was sending 2,000 pound bombs to Israel.

And Jordanlund is wrong about the "defensive" weapons. The only defensive thing we send is the iron dome missiles. We also send everything from bullets to tank shells to plane bombs. None of which are purely defensive.

She could have used messaging along the lines of, "I believe our military aid requires more stringent investigations into units receiving it." But for whatever reason she didn't. The pro Palestinian lobby was very clear about what they wanted to hear from her in order to vote for her and she did not meet that bar.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

And yet here we are with Israel announcing that they can start on the West Bank now that Trump won. But no, go ahead with your bOtH SiDEs shit, it's so rational and Principled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The war crimes that Biden decided weren't bad enough to stop weapon shipments were committed in the West Bank. Go learn something before you embarrass yourself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can't even bring yourself to admit that the announcement of extending the kind of carpet bombing we've seen in Gaza to the West Bank is a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

See my other comment for the answer to this utterly bad faith line.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It's bad news, not bad faith. You still can't bring yourself to admit that Trump winning is a disaster for Palestine.