Gaza comes back to bite Harris as Dearborn helps tip Michigan in Trump’s favor
By
Emily Hallas
November 6, 2024 6:34 pm
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Anger over Vice President Kamala Harris’s stance on the war in Gaza likely spelled the end of her presidential hopes in Michigan.
The battleground state holds the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, many of whom expressed profound disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration’s policy on the Middle Eastern conflict. Riding off their wave of fury against Harris’s refusal to commit to significant policy changes on the war in Gaza, President-elect Donald Trump found historic levels of support in Dearborn and other majority-Muslim areas across the state.
That support played a critical role in propelling Trump to victory in a state he lost by about 155,000 votes four years ago. Trump won Dearborn with 42% support during the 2024 presidential election, a significant increase from the 30% he garnered in 2020.
Harris carried only 36% of the vote, down from President Joe Biden’s 69% in 2020.
Trump also carried the neighboring Dearborn Heights, where 39% of the residents hail from the Middle East. The Dearborn area is the birthplace of the pro-Palestinian anti-war “Uncommitted” movement, which prominently caught the country’s attention during Michigan’s February Democratic primary. Voters cast over 100,000 protest “uncommitted” ballots against Biden at the time, escalating tensions between Democratic leadership and far-left factions of the party.
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