Mayor of America's only majority-Muslim city reveals who he is endorsing for president

The politician of a Muslim-majority metropolis successful Michigan has endorsed Donald Trump successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.

Amer Ghalib, politician of the Detroit-area suburb Hamtramck, announced the endorsement Sunday, successful an impassioned station to Facebook.

The connection came days aft the Yemini-born Democrat met with Trump successful Flint, aft which helium personally invited the person to his municipality - which has go a destination for immigrants from countries similar Yemen, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

This paved mode for the ringing endorsement, which billed the ex-commander-in-chief arsenic 'the close prime for this captious time,' despite the 2 not 'agree[ing] connected everything,' 

The 45-year-old erstwhile wellness attraction idiosyncratic went connected to overgarment Trump arsenic 'a antheral of principles' - an assertion the Republican went connected to repost connected Truth Social.

'Though it's looking good, helium whitethorn oregon whitethorn not triumph the predetermination and beryllium the 47th president of the United States,' Ghalib began by saying, penning the post in Arabic.

'I'll not regret my determination nary substance what the result would be, and I'm acceptable to look the consequences. 

'For this, and for galore different reasons, I denote my enactment and endorsement for the former, and hopefully, the adjacent president of the United States, Donald Trump.

'Now, fto the Caravan statesman its journey,' helium concluded. 'This is conscionable the starting point.'

Days earlier, pursuing a backstage 20-minutme gathering with the erstwhile president successful Flint, Ghalib told the Detroit News successful a substance message: '[Trump] knew a batch astir maine earlier the meeting.

'We talked astir assorted topics including the debates, the polls updates, the statistic of votes successful Michigan and Wayne County, the Arab American concerns and the Yemeni Americans successful particular,' the governmental newcomer continued.

'We besides talked astir the concern successful Yemen.'

Trump, meanwhile, connected Sunday told Breitbart News however helium 'was precise impressed with [Ghalib]', during a astir hourlong phone-call that followed Ghalib's abrupt endorsement.

'He was a precise large instrumentality of the Trump medication due to the fact that helium saw nary wars - extracurricular of defeating ISIS, but I inherited that - but determination were nary wars,' Trump told the quality site. 

'There was nary October 7. There was nary Russian onslaught connected Ukraine,' helium continued. 'He sees that and helium told maine — helium saw a satellite that was astatine peace. 

'Now, we person a satellite that's going to extremity up successful World War 3 and I tin halt that,' the Republican went on, a small implicit 40 days up of his looming faceoff with Vice President Kamala Harris. 'I'm the lone 1 that's going to halt that.'

In his texts with Detroit News, Ghalib further revealed however Trump had been the 1 to inquire for his endorsement, arsenic the Great Lakes State's 15 electoral votes look to beryllium mostly up for grabs.

 Democrats and Republicans traded wins determination successful 2020 and 2016.

'He asked maine if I tin endorse him and inquire radical to ballot for him?' Ghalib claimed, adding that helium whitethorn sermon much details astir the pair's newfound correspondence successful a video oregon aboriginal societal media posts.

'I told him: 'I'm present to speech astir that and however we tin marque it happen.'

'I past handed him an authoritative missive with immoderate details astir our concerns and to invitation him to travel to Hamtramck if possible.' 

Ghalib past appeared connected Breitbart News Saturday, to again talk highly of the statesmanlike campaigner earlier officially endorsing him.

'I talked to President Trump about, you know, immoderate statistic present successful Wayne County and however it utilized to beryllium a stronghold for the Democrats, and we ever utilized to ballot Democrat,' Ghalib said of the 'very productive meeting' successful Flint.

'This is not the lawsuit anymore here.'   

He the told Breitbart however helium and Trump some do not privation caller wars, arsenic the struggle successful Gaza continues to rage without an extremity successful sight. 

Last year, Ghalib was among a radical of Hamtramck residents who met with arguable blimpish activistic Michael Flynn, a erstwhile Army wide and Trump's archetypal nationalist information advisor who pleaded blameworthy to lying to the FBI astir his contacts with the Russian ambassador.

He was aboriginal pardoned by then-President Trump anterior to visiting Hamtramck - a municipality of astir 27,000 - past year.

Ghalib was elected politician of the only U.S. metropolis governed wholly by Muslims the twelvemonth before, beating retired incumbent Mayor Karen Majewski successful the process.

The triumph marked the archetypal clip successful 100 years that a non-Polish idiosyncratic held the position, successful a metropolis where more than 40 percent of the city’s colonisation foreign-born.    

If Trump wins Michigan, Harris’s way to the presidency abruptly becomes a large woody much dubious, with good implicit 100,000 Michigander Arabs voted 'Uncommitted' successful the Democrat primary.

That represents astir the afloat borderline betwixt Biden and Trump successful the 2020 Michigan election, meaning the voting bloc could plaything the presidency either way. 

Hamtramck, a haven for refugees, is the lone Muslim-majority metropolis successful the US.