'Abandon Harris' movement flipped Dearborn to Trump on Election Day

The Dearborn, Michigan-led question to ditch President Biden and aboriginal Vice President Kamala Harris ended up throwing its enactment down President-elect Trump connected Election Day.

"They were seeing that President Trump was giving a small attraction to the Arab and Muslim assemblage and Vice President Harris was benignant of shutting down our community," Mike Hachem, a Dearborn-based person of the Abandon Biden movement, said of Dearborn voters successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital Thursday.

The comments travel aft Trump’s triumph successful the 2024 election, with the president-elect carrying the captious battleground authorities of Michigan on the way. That triumph was successful nary tiny portion due to the fact that of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, a metropolis with the largest per capita Muslim colonisation successful the state that sent a shocking connection by supporting Trump’s bid to instrumentality to the White House.

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President-elect Trump (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)

Traditionally a dependable Democratic voting bloc, displeasure with the Biden administration’s handling of the struggle successful Gaza caused galore Muslim Americans successful Michigan to spark a question to "Abandon Biden," resulting successful implicit 100,000 voting "uncommitted" alternatively of supporting the president’s re-election bid during the Democratic superior earlier this year. 

That angst implicit the administration’s handling of the warfare carried implicit to Harris erstwhile she was elevated to the apical of the Democratic ticket, with activists astir Dearborn arguing the vice president had not done capable to gain backmost the votes of the city’s Muslim community.

But contempt the wide dissatisfaction with Democrats, galore successful the assemblage expressed skepticism astir throwing their enactment down Trump, with immoderate pointing to a archetypal word that featured robust enactment for Israel and restrictions connected question from aggregate Muslim-majority countries to the United States.

Hachem, who would spell connected to assistance motorboat the Arab Americans for a Better America PAC, acceptable retired to alteration that, teaming up with like-minded members of the assemblage and raising funds that were utilized for outreach and advertisement successful support of Trump successful the Dearborn area.

A billboard motortruck advertisement placed successful the Dearborn country by the Arab Americans for a Better America PAC. (Mike Hachem)

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Meanwhile, Trump seemingly began to prime up immoderate momentum with Muslim leaders successful the state, earning the endorsement of aggregate Muslim mayors and spiritual leaders successful southeast Michigan.

The combined effort seemingly paid off, with Trump winning 42.5% of the ballot successful Dearborn, portion Harris won conscionable 36.2% and Green Party campaigner Jill Stein, who besides made a ample entreaty to the Dearborn community, pulling successful 18.37%.

The effect marked a stark departure from however Dearborn voted successful the 2020 election, which saw 68.97% of the city’s voters enactment Biden compared to conscionable 29.72% who supported Trump. This twelvemonth besides saw Trump instrumentality adjacent Dearborn Heights, different metropolis with a ample Muslim population, with 44% of that city’s voters casting ballots for the erstwhile president compared to 38% who supported Harris.

An advertisement placed successful the Dearborn country by the Arab Americans for a Better America PAC. (Mike Hachem)

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"The Arab and Muslim colonisation looked astatine it as, ‘Hey, we’re getting the attraction now, we’re getting the designation that we fought 60 years to get, and present President Trump is putting america connected the stage,'" Hachem said. "President Trump is acknowledging that we beryllium and that we are portion of the cloth of this nation."