Arab-American leaders in Michigan declined to meet with President Biden’s campaign manager on Friday over the commander in chief’s support for Israel in its war against Hamas.
The planned meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, was part of a “listening tour” by the Biden campaign, according to the Detroit News, and was expected to involve Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez and about a dozen Muslim and Arab American elected officials. holders and community leaders.
When word got out of the scheduled summit, Wayne County Deputy Executive Director and Meeting Coordinator Assad Turfe canceled it due to community “outrage.”
“Unless something drastic happens, the Arab American and Muslim community has been lost,” Turfe told the outlet of the community’s feelings toward the 81-year-old president. “At this point, as far as I can see, there is no way to win them over. “That was the idea of the meeting.”
“Until there is a ceasefire, the general consensus in the community is that they are essentially not welcome here,” he added.
Assad Turfe was forced to cancel the meeting due to community outrage. assad_turfe/Instagram Julie Chávez Rodríguez, Biden’s campaign manager, was rejected by Muslim and Arab Americans in Michigan. AP
Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud, a Democrat, said he was invited to attend the meeting but has no interest in speaking with Biden campaign officials until Israel’s military operations in Gaza stop.
“The lives of Palestinians are not measured by poll numbers,” Hammoud wrote in X. “His humanity demands action, not words. “When elected officials see the atrocities in Gaza only as an electoral problem, they reduce our indescribable pain to a political calculation.”
“I will not have conversations about elections while we watch a live-streamed genocide supported by our government,” he added.
Democratic Dearborn Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud declined to meet with Biden’s campaign manager on Friday. city of dearborn
Support for Biden among Arab Americans has collapsed in the wake of his support for Israel in its war against Hamas, the terrorist group that massacred about 1,200 people in the Jewish state and kidnapped about 240 on October 7, 2023.
Only 17.4% of Arab American voters said they would vote for Biden in 2024, according to a John Zogby Strategies poll commissioned by the Arab American Institute last October.
In 2020, the same poll measured Arab-American support for Biden at 59%.
Negative sentiment could be a huge problem for Biden in Michigan this fall, where Muslim and Arab Americans make up a sizable voting bloc in the key battleground state.
Nearly 26,000 people in Gaza have died since the war began, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
Biden’s campaign did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.
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