Despite her efforts to please both sides, Harris, 60, won just 20.3% of Muslim voters, down from the 69% Biden garnered in 2020, shocking exit poll data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations found.
I'm not surprised; we already knew that Harris supported Israel's genocide; and ethnically cleansing Gaza was already suggested by Blinken to Arab leaders in October 2023. It was also the past administration that set into motion sanctions against the ICC and vetoed ceasefire multiple times and also vetoed Palestinian right to self-determination at the UN.
When asked to identify their political party, 34% of Muslim respondents said Democrat, 34% said independent and 33% said Republican, according to a survey conducted by J.L. Partners last month in partnership with the Muslim American Leadership Alliance.
I don't understand why a third still identify as either. While Muslim Americans are a diverse group, with diverse priorities, it is still ignorant to trust either party at this point, and the Republicans are worse. The majority of Arabs in the US aren't Muslim, and are culturally conservative and Christian from the Levant, but they weren't included in this poll.
Meanwhile, a plurality (49%) opposed President Trump’s plan to transform the Gaza Strip into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” with 26% saying they supported the idea and 16% not giving an opinion one way or another.
Did those 26% misunderstand the question or are they clinging to false hope? What about the other 9%?