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Muslim voters disillusioned with President Biden’s position on Israel are facing the prospect of a difficult choice in 2024.

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[–] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] RubberStuntBaby@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Muslims refusing to vote for Biden is like taking themselves hostage. You know if Trump gets elected he will try to deport them, inspire more hate crimes against them, and would be way worse for Palestinians.

Biden isn't the problem. The problem is that both parties support Israel.

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[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, they don't. Being Muslim does not make a Person stupid. They can be stupid, certainly, but it isn't because they are Muslim that they must face their stupidity.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This article says that a higher percentage of Muslims voted for Trump in 2020 than did in 2016. Is it really far fetched to think that percentage could continue to rise?

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[–] TinyPizza@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the article:

In a memo released Thursday, Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez said her team feels “well-prepared to defeat whoever emerges from the extreme MAGA Republicans’ primary field,” but “this will be a very close general election.”
Biden won 64 percent of the Muslim vote in 2020, and Trump won 35 percent, according to exit polling by The Associated Press.

New polling this week showed Biden’s support among Arab American voters plummeting to just 17 percent, down 42 percentage points compared to 2020. The Arab American Institute, which conducted the poll, said it marks the first time in 26 years of polling Arab Americans that the majority did not claim to prefer the Democratic Party.

Between this recurring news and the fact that it's being taken seriously it feels like team Biden is going to have to go further than an Islamophobia policy implementation. These numbers can likely lose him Michigan as it stands, and ignoring the Midwest has never worked out to a candidates (and all of our) detriment in the recent past. We need concise action to support these communities if we want to keep Michigan blue.

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[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People can't just begrudgingly keep voting for Democrats with policies they don't like. It's short sighted. Yes they could lose an election, at this rate they will anyway, but if we keep doing this then this cycle will just keep going over and over and over again. They need to see that supporting genocide will cost them elections.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want any chance for things to improve then you have to vote. Not voting or protest voting only helps the worst candidate.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Not really. Voting for shitty candidates condones their behaviour and sends a signal that they don't need to change.

Think long term. 20 years of the status quo is worse than 4 years of Trump. And before someone says it, no I'm not saying vote for Trump or that he's better than Biden.

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