Why Is Biden Kowtowing To Dearborn’s Terror-Justifying Mayor?
Jonathan S. Tobin
Dearborn, Michigan, is a modest suburb of Detroit with a population of only about 110,000 people. But it may be the key to the 2024 presidential election, and that has made its mayor one of the more influential people in the Democrat Party.
Earlier this month, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud flatly refused to take a meeting with Julia Chavez Rodriguez, President Joe Biden’s national campaign manager. Rodriguez had been dispatched by the White House to Michigan to try to persuade local Democrats to stop talking as if they were abandoning Biden because of his support for Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre. But while Rodriguez was able to meet with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the virulently antisemitic Palestinian-American charter member of the congressional left-wing “squad,” Hammoud snubbed her.
Displaying the kind of chutzpah that would have been more fitting for a stereotypical party boss of a big city political machine of the 19th or early 20th centuries, Hammoud sent the campaign the message that he didn’t have time to meet a mere political operative. Hammoud would only meet with policymakers. And in a clear indication of the White House’s view of the importance of the Arab-American vote in Michigan, the administration duly complied with Hammoud’s demand.
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