Chicago – October 19, 2024
A CNN contributor said on Thursday she was surprised to hear from Arab Americans that they are not supporting Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
“I’ve been talking to people in the business sector, in the Arab-American community, 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,” foreign affairs analyst Reena Ninan said.
Ninan said that the polling of Arab-American support of former President Trump and Vice President Harris is “neck and neck,” but added, “I cannot find one Arab-American within my social circle in business or personally who have said that they will vote for Kamala Harris,” while acknowledging it’s “not, obviously, a significant sample size.”
President Biden and Harris have faced pressure from the Arab and Muslim community in the U.S. to implement a ceasefire in Gaza ever since the Israel-Hamas war began over a year ago. Muslim and Arab-Americans protested Biden in the Michigan Democratic primary earlier this year by voting “uncommitted.”
