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The Brian Lehrer Show

How Much Did the Uncommitted Movement Affect Turnout for Harris?

The Brian Lehrer Show

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Muslim and Arab-American voters, the "uncommitted" movement, and how it affected turnout for Vice President Harris.

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0:00.0

Brian Lerr on WNYC.

0:13.2

Now we'll wrap up our series, at least for now, looking at various reasons that Trump won the election and Vice President Harris lost.

0:21.4

We've talked about how each campaigned and was perceived regarding the economy for working

0:27.9

class Americans, reasons for the shift among Latino voters, Biden staying in the race too long,

0:35.4

racism and sexism as factors.

0:38.7

We did that one yesterday.

0:46.6

The brom media, manosphere, disinformation, and the declining impact of journalism versus social media, plus Harris's changes of positions from her 2019 presidential campaign appearances

0:52.9

and other things.

0:54.1

And we'll wrap up this series for now by talking about Harris's positions on the war between

0:59.5

Israel and Hamas and the effects on Gaza and the defection of many Muslims and Arab Americans

1:05.7

and others who oppose the Biden-Harris policies toward the war.

1:09.2

Our guest for this to look back at the campaign,

1:12.3

but also forward into the Trump administration is Slate staff writer, Iman Ismail,

1:19.8

who has an article called, It's Not like there weren't chances to do this differently.

1:26.2

Dearborn Michigan turned against Kamala Harris decisively.

1:29.4

Now the city is about to find out if Trump was worth it. Amon, thanks for coming on for this.

1:35.1

Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you, Brian. Happy to be here.

1:38.5

Let's start with the Democratic primaries, just to remind people. Was Dearborn the place where the

1:43.3

uncommitted movement got started voting uncommitted rather than for Biden in the primaries, just to remind people, was Dearborn the place where the Uncommitted movement got started

1:44.8

voting uncommitted rather than for Biden in the primaries over this issue?

1:49.7

That's exactly right. Before it was called the Uncommitted Movement, it was just called Listen to

1:53.8

Michigan. It was founded by three Dearborn residents. First one was Abbas, Al-Awea, who's

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