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Vice President Kamala Harris has used too many talking points about her “middle-class upbringing” and “love for the American people,” and our “hopes, dreams, ambitions, and aspirations,” leading to a punchline. It has become. Just kidding.
This does not bode well macropolitically for her presidential campaign. And so are some of the numbers from the small demographic she needs to win. One small unit of the American electorate is Arab-Americans in general, and in Michigan in particular, the news is not good for Team Harris either.
In early October, the Arab American Institute released a poll of Arab Americans regarding the upcoming presidential election. The “top line'' conclusions were quite surprising. “Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris are virtually tied with Arab American voters (42% to 41%), with 12% supporting a third-party candidate.”
I asked former President Trump why he was doing so well among Jewish Americans, especially given his growing support among them.
“Because I want to see everything go well,” he answered. “I want peace,” he continued. “I don't want to see people killed. I want peace. And they (Arab Americans) know that. And the Jews know that. And both sides I love it and I know it will give me peace.”
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That's a good answer, and perhaps that's why it accounts for a significant portion of Arab Americans voting for Trump, but in the same poll, “people asked to rank the most important issues The top three priorities for Arab American voters were: jobs and jobs. Economy (39%), Gaza (26%), Gun Violence (21%). ”
We found that this demographic is most concerned about the same issue that the electorate as a whole is most concerned about: the economy. There is no cross-tabulation of the 39% breakdown between Trump and Harris, but my guess is that Arab Americans, like the overall electorate, are likely to support Trump because they are concerned about inflation and job loss. I think I might lose it.
New poll finds Harris and Trump split in two key states
Additionally, there are questions that most pollsters don't ask about and were not asked in this poll. The first is “transgender rights,” which means many things to different people. But for at least millions of voters, this means: That means boys who identify as girls are playing girls' sports and using girls' locker rooms.
The second issue that receives little public opinion polls is “reparations.'' The issue came up in the campaign just this week when Vice President Harris was asked about reparations by podcaster Charlamagne the God and declared that the Democratic candidate “needs to look at” the issue. It was.
Harris' campaign has distanced itself from the controversy. (AP/Jacqueline Martin)
According to a 2021 Pew Research survey, “Americans view the prospects for reparations mostly negatively.” “Three in 10 American adults say descendants of enslaved people in the United States should be repaid in some way, such as in the form of land or money,” Pew reported. 77% of Black Americans support reparations, but only 39% of Hispanic Americans and 33% of Asian Americans support reparations. (Arab Americans were excluded from the poll.)
What about the first issue mentioned above? According to Gallup, a vast majority of Americans (69%) believe that “transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that match their natal gender.” I believe that it should be. But the Biden-Harris administration has proposed new Title IX rules that are widely seen as mandating the right for transgender athletes to compete in sports limited to the biological category in which they identify. For most voters, that probably means “boys who identify as girls who play girls' sports.”
Although Harris did not address this specific issue, she has taken the highly controversial position that taxpayers pay for prison inmates who are transitioning from one gender to another. (The Trump campaign has made Harris' on-the-record support for these taxpayer payments part of its ad rotation.)
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It's a guess, but a solid guess, that the conservative family culture typical of Arab Americans (Muslims, Christians, agnostics) does not support black reparations or allows biological boys to play in women's sports. Most reject the idea of doing so.
This is an educated guess, since Arab American Association polls demonstrate that Arab Americans are like most Americans when it comes to the things that matter most. Post-election exit polls showed that Arab Americans ultimately supported President Trump at roughly the same rate as all Americans, believing Vice President Harris to be too radical to stand a chance. Don't be surprised if it turns out.
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