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The Owen Jones Podcast

'We Won't Vote For Genocide' - Owen Jones in Dearborn, Michigan

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Israel's genocide looms large over the community of Dearborn in Michigan, a pivotal swing state.


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0:00.0

How are you feeling about the election? Are you fired up?

0:02.0

Uh, no, not. Honestly, no.

0:06.0

Because it's either gonna be Trump or Kamala.

0:08.0

Um, so for me, definitely Jill Stein. I'm definitely not Harris.

0:12.0

I'm not gonna vote for Trump, but there's no way I'm gonna vote for the Democrats after, yeah, after Palestine.

0:17.0

Yeah, I agree.

0:19.0

Probably going to vote for Harris. What I mean a lot of people around

0:22.9

here are very angry about the role of the democratic presidency in army of Israel. What given

0:28.5

what's happening, what would you say to that? No, it's definitely a valid concern and I think

0:34.7

it's definitely, you know know the anger is definitely justified especially

0:39.0

because you know we expect more of the Democrats you know they're supposed to have morality

0:44.7

they're supposed to be against these kinds of pointless wars. Hello from Michigan we are on the

0:51.0

verge of the US presidential election and this state will help determine who the hell wins.

0:56.0

Now last time Joe Baduio just scraped it, about 150,000 votes.

1:00.0

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are throwing everything at Michigan given its 15 electoral college votes may prove pivotal.

1:08.0

But this is why this place is so interesting. I'm in Dearborn. Now, Dearborn, next to

1:12.6

Detroit, has the highest concentration of Muslim American voters in the United States,

1:17.7

and it's the first ever-majority city in the United States. Now, of course, Israel's genocide

1:23.5

in Palestine looms large over this city in particular.

1:28.3

Now, obviously lots of Americans are very angry about it,

1:31.3

but there's a particular resonance here.

1:34.3

How are they going to vote?

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