Huge majorities chose Democrats in the last two presidential elections in South Paterson, but that changed in 2024. Here's why.
Community leaders say Muslim voters were angered by the Biden-Harris administration's inability to stem the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Donald Trump secured a clear victory in the 2024 presidential election, but some online posts claimed Kamala Harris would have won several key states if not for ballots cast for third-party candidates.
Muslims snubbed Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day over her stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, with about 80% rejecting her at the ballot box, an exit poll reveals.
This year's Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, has blamed Democrats for their election loss, and has said the two party political system in the U.S. is broken. She said Democrats have no one but themselves to blame for another "disastrous" Trump victory.
The results mark a stark shift from 2020, when 69% of Muslim Americans voted for President Joe Biden and 17% voted for Trump. This movement away from the Democratic party was fueled, at least in part, by the U.S. government’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, Robert McCaw, CAIR’s national government affairs director, said in a news release.
In that same area, Vice President Kamala Harris received only 23%. The nearly 60-percentage point drop in four years was in an area where an estimated three-fourths of the residents are of Arab descent,
Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate since 2000 to win the majority-Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan.
Collins ascended to the top Republican position on the House Judiciary Committee, subsequently emerging as a powerful defender of Trump during his impeachment.
In a historic shake-up, both Muslim and Jewish voters introduced fresh dynamics to the 2024 presidential election. While Jewish Americans largely continued their Democratic support, a noticeable minority within select locales—such as zip codes in New York City — shifted toward President-elect Donald Trump.
One of the keys to former President Trump's victory in Michigan was improving his performance in counties that were already solidly Republican.
Arab and Muslim voters moved away from the Democratic Party this year in ways that led some community leaders to warn of a lasting shift from a voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic for two decades since it abandoned the GOP.