Who will get the Arab American vote in Michigan?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Arab and Muslim Americans in the state of Michigan are grappling with a critical choice this election. Nearly 400,000 Arab Americans in the state were instrumental in delivering Michigan to elect Joe Biden in 2020. This time, however, many feel betrayed by his administration’s support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. With candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris running neck and neck in Michigan, what stance will these voters take?
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- Ali Harb (@Harbpeace), Al Jazeera Journalist
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This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker and SarĂ el-Khalili, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Cole van Miltenburg, and our host, Malika Bilal.Â
The Take production team is Marcos BartolomĂ©, Sonia Bhagat, SarĂ el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Chloe K. Li, Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, and Amy Walters. Our editorial interns are Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, and Cole van Miltenburg. Our host is Malika Bilal.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, a grieving community makes its choice. |
| 0:15.0 | We're grieving, we're frustrated, we're angry, we're heartbroken. We feel betrayed. This is an impossible |
| 0:23.3 | choice for our community. With one day to go before the U.S. election, the hard decisions facing |
| 0:30.2 | Arab and Muslim Americans in Michigan. I'm Malika Bilal and this is The Take. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Holly Harb. |
| 0:45.5 | I am a journalist for Al Jazeera English and I report on U.S. politics, Arab and American |
| 0:50.9 | communities and foreign policy. |
| 0:53.0 | Holly, welcome back to The Take. |
| 0:56.0 | It is always good to have you on. Thank you for having to Malika. |
| 0:58.0 | You are currently in Dearborn, Michigan, which is considered the epicenter of Arab America. |
| 1:05.0 | And my read on the consensus from people there right now, based on reporting, based on social media, is that |
| 1:12.8 | Kamala Harris must not want to win this state, a crucial swing state in the country's Midwest. |
| 1:20.5 | And that's because in recent days, we've seen New York Representative Ritchie Torres, a really |
| 1:26.9 | vocal defender of Israel, campaigning for Kamala Harris in the state. |
| 1:31.1 | Then you had a prominent Muslim Democrat kicked out of a rally in Detroit for reasons he says are unclear to him. |
| 1:39.2 | And I asked, why are you picking me out? I didn't do anything. They didn't want to provide any reason. |
| 1:45.6 | And they just trained me, they trained me to arrest me and bring the police if I don't move. |
| 1:52.7 | And then there was this from former President Bill Clinton speaking at a rally in Michigan. |
| 1:59.9 | Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. |
| 2:05.6 | They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable. |
| 2:09.6 | Well, I got news for them. |
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