How Conflict Can Influence Voters
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🗓️ 5 March 2024
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The states voting on Super Tuesday include places with lots of Arab American voters, like Minnesota.
Just last week, more than 13 percent of voters in Michigan's Democratic primary voted uncommitted. Many of those voters are Arab Americans who wanted to send Joe Biden a message about his support for Israel in the war in Gaza.
The 2024 election is likely to be narrowly divided between President Joe Biden and Former President Donald Trump. The way the Biden administration handles conflicts abroad could have the power to shape the electorate here at home.
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| 0:00.0 | This week marks a milestone in the presidential election when 15 states and one US territory vote on Super Tuesday. |
| 0:07.4 | This one day is the biggest delegate hall for candidates during the primary season. |
| 0:11.4 | And the states voting on Super Tuesday |
| 0:13.6 | include places with lots of Arab American voters, |
| 0:16.8 | like Minnesota. |
| 0:18.2 | Just last week, more than 13% of voters |
| 0:20.8 | in Michigan's Democratic primary voted uncommitted, |
| 0:24.0 | many of them Arab Americans who wanted to send Joe Biden a message about his |
| 0:28.0 | support for Israel in the war in Gaza. |
| 0:30.0 | The people who are dying, these are our family members and our friends. |
| 0:34.0 | People who we know directly. |
| 0:36.0 | You know, when I have a resident coming to my council meeting speaking to the fact that he lost 80 family members, |
| 0:42.0 | that's personal for all of us. to the fact that he lost 80 family members. |
| 0:43.0 | That's personal for all of us. |
| 0:45.0 | That's Abdullah Hamud, mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, |
| 0:48.0 | where three quarters of Arab American voters cast Democratic ballots saying, |
| 0:52.0 | uncommitted. |
| 0:53.2 | Hamud says the loss of lives in Gaza |
| 0:55.4 | has caused deep pain in his community. |
| 0:57.6 | And pain in that sense, but also pain due to betrayal. |
| 1:01.4 | Betrayal by this president, betrayal by the administration, |
| 1:04.0 | and betrayal by all those that are uplifting the most right-wing government in Israel's |
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