President Joe Biden is losing Arab American voters in Michigan — a pivotal swing state that will play an indispensable role in shaping the outcome of the 2024 election.
In the first national poll of Arab Americans since the start of the Israel-Hamas war nearly one month ago, only 17% plan to vote for Biden next year — a drastic drop from 59% in 2020, per the Arab American Institute.
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The survey indicated the first time in 26 years that a majority of Arab American voters did not prefer the Democratic Party.
Michigan is home to around 300,000 Arab Americans of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry who helped Biden secure the state over former President Donald Trump in 2020 after Hillary Clinton’s narrow loss in 2016.
The state was considered a reliable blue wall of the industrial upper Midwest for Democrats, flipping back to Biden in an even wider margin than Trump’s defeat of Clinton.
The pressure for Biden is particularly on in Dearborn …
Biden at risk of losing vital voting bloc in swing state that helped him beat Trump
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