Key Demographic that Helped Biden in 2020 Not Likely to Vote, And It May ‘Cost Him the Election’

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A chunk of American voters who were behind President Joe Biden in 2020 could abandon him this fall.

One symptom of the disaffection from Arab-American and Muslim voters came when Dearborn, Michigan, leaders refused to meet with campaign staff, according to the Guardian, which wrote that flagging support from Arab-Americans and Muslims “may cost him the election.”

“They’re approaching the community now to speak about the issues unfolding as if they’re electoral problems or political ones. And for us, that’s not what these are,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said. More than half the people of this city of almost 110,000 have their roots in the Middle East or North Africa.

“This is an issue of humanity. Palestinians are not important because of polling numbers,” he said.

Ghada Elnajjar, a Palestinian-American organizer, said in 2020, the Biden campaign was actively seeking meetings with Muslim and Arab-American voters. And now?

“The current outreach strategy to Arab American and American Muslim voters has been inept and awkward,” she said.

In rejecting a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Institute for Middle East Understanding sniped that “A meeting of this nature at this moment in time is insulting and performative,” according to CNN.

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