President Biden’s support among Arab Americans has plummeted more than 40 percentage points since 2020 as the commander in chief supported Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, a new poll shows.
The poll by John Zogby Strategies, commissioned by the Arab American Institute, found that only 17.4% of Arab American voters say they would vote for Biden, 80, if the presidential election were held today.
By contrast, 40% of respondents said they would vote for former President Donald Trump, 13.7% said they would support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 3.8% said they would support far-left candidate Cornel West and 25.1% said no. sure who they would support.
In October 2020, the same poll showed Biden beating Trump by 59% to 35% among Arab American voters, who make up a sizable voting bloc in key battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Support for President Biden among Arab Americans has plummeted by a whopping 42 percentage points since 2020.REUTERS
The poll also showed that 32% of Arab Americans identified as Republicans, 31% called themselves independents and only 23% identified as Democrats – a first in 26 years of surveying Arab American voters. that the institute did not claim to prefer the Democrat. Party.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (66%) said they had a negative attitude toward Biden, an almost complete change from October 2020, when 74% of Arab American voters said they had a positive opinion toward the Democrat.
When asked about Biden’s job performance, 77% of Arab American voters rated him “fair” or “poor,” and only 20% rated him “excellent” or “good.”
Hadas Kalderon, a resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, whose children have been taken hostage and her mother and niece were murdered, breaks down in tears.Getty Images
Two-thirds (67%) of respondents also disapproved of Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas, with a similar number (68%) opposing the United States sending military aid to the Jewish state and the same percentage saying Washington should push for a ceasefire.
“We do not believe that a ceasefire is the right response at this time,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House on Monday. “We believe that a ceasefire at this time benefits Hamas, and Hamas is the only one that would benefit from it at this time, as Israel continues to do, to carry out its operations against the Hamas leadership.
“What we have said needs to be considered and explored are localized temporary humanitarian pauses to allow aid to reach specific populations and perhaps even to assist with the evacuation of people who want to leave, move further south,” Kirby added. “We support that. “We do not support a ceasefire at this time.”
A pro-Palestinian protester confronts a member of the New York Police Department on October 8, 2023. James Keivom
While the survey found that 67% of respondents were worried that the Middle East war would lead to a rise in anti-Semitism in the United States, even more (78%) said they were worried about anti-Arab intolerance and 45% said they feared for your personal safety.
Like Biden, Trump has been a strong supporter of Israel. He has also alienated Arab Americans in the past, including with his late 2015 call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
The 45th president, 77, recently revisited a version of that speech earlier this month, calling for a ban on immigrants entering the United States “from countries plagued by terror.”
Supporters of the people of the Palestinian territories gather for a Jumu’ah prayer and rally at City Hall on October 20. Getty Images
There are approximately 3.7 million Americans who have roots in an Arab nation, the institute estimates.
Some progressives like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) have sounded the alarm about the erosion of support for Biden among Arab Americans.
Biden has condemned extremist settler violence against Palestinians and the brutal murder of Palestinian-American boy Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, in Illinois earlier this month.
The president has roundly condemned all forms of prejudice. REUTERS
The poll surveyed 500 Arab Americans between Oct. 23 and Oct. 27 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
More than 1,400 people, including 33 Americans, were killed in a surprise Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7.
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