Supposedly “neck and neck” polling hit a snag as corporate media was left unable to “find one” member of a particular voting bloc backing Vice President Kamala Harris.
(Video: CNN)
Pandering may have proven pointless for the White House hopeful while trying to play two sides in regard to the Middle East. Now, after months of appeals that seemingly included selecting the running mate from her final choices who wasn’t Jewish, Harris voters in the Arab-American community were hard to come by.
“I’ve been talking to people in the business sector, in the Arab-American community,” explained CNN foreign affairs analyst Reena Ninan to “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip, “and I was really surprised this week to get an earful, to hear them say that they would much rather either vote a third party, not vote at all or vote for Donald Trump.”
Despite “neck and neck” polling, she expressed, “I cannot find one Arab-American within my social circle in business or personally who have said that they will vote for Kamala Harris.”
Noting that it was “not, obviously, a significant sample size,” Ninan went on to explain while using biased rhetoric about travel bans during then President Donald Trump’s administration, “What they are saying, and this is not a Donald Trump campaign line — that Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, who’s a Lebanese businessman, has been successful in kind of converting and talking to people to explain why Trump would be better, even with the Muslim ban, even with everything else that has happened.”
“They feel they do not have any political clout. They don’t have any political operation. The only political power they have is their vote, even if it means the rise of Donald Trump,” she added as Phillip responded, “That’s extraordinary.”
Ninan’s account was hardly unique as a similar report was given by MSNBC as Lebanese-American voters in Michigan expressed feeling “betrayed” and “dehumanized.”
Explaining that they were open to voting for Trump, if for no other reason than to oppose Harris, the panel had said supporting the vice president was “not possible.”
“There’s nothing she can do or say for us, to change our mind,” one voter had said.
MSNBC: “Who’s voting for Kamala Harris here?”
*Nobody raises hand* pic.twitter.com/ELjbZaLlwy
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 18, 2024
Meanwhile, as Harris opted for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro for her running mate while the Biden-Harris administration impeded arms shipments to Israel, the Uncommitted National Movement steered voters away from Harris for not standing against Israel to their liking and the vice president alienated Catholic voters by insulting them at the Al Smith dinner, Trump received a certificate of appreciation from Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, the Democrat leader of the Detroit suburb Muslim-majority city in Michigan.
24 hours apart:
Kamala get’s heckled for her role in bringing widespread devastation to the Middle East.
President Trump receives a certificate of appreciation from the mayor of the only Muslim-majority city in the nation.
President Trump will restore PEACE to the Middle East! pic.twitter.com/rJDVdzjjAY
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 19, 2024
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