Muslim and Arab Americans say their support was critical to Biden’s winning Michigan in 2020. Some warn they won’t back him again over his blanket support for Israel.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnik
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    1 year ago

    You forget that the US isn’t a Democracy. In 2016, Trump won Michigan by less than 12,000 votes. Dearborn, MI has 100,000 people, roughly half of which are Arab-American.

    Does that mean Biden has to listen to them? Biden did win Michigan by 150,000 votes in 2020, and people never vote 100% by their ethnicity, so they probably won’t swing the election all on their own. And there could be worse consequences even just in MI for even a small budge in the direction of Palestine. But, if I were Biden, I’d be thinking about it.

    Horse-race bullshit aside, he should support Palestine because it’s the right thing to do. So ultimately I support these people; the outcome at the very least is the Biden admin is going to think harder about maintaining their level of support for Israel, and that’s a good thing.