Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for this year’s US presidential election, was cheered by hundreds of attendees at the annual convention of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, Michigan, last week — a sign that Democrats have a serious problem when it comes defeating Donald Trump on Nov. 5.

When I told Democratic friends that I planned to vote for Stein — noting that, while the Republicans are like wolves, the Democrats are a wolf in sheep’s clothing — they said that voting for Stein would make me responsible “for electing Trump.” I responded: “No. If Trump wins, you can blame the Democrats for failing to stand up for the principles they claim they hold sacred.”

Having covered American elections for half a century, I know they are unpredictable. Polls can only tell you which way the wind is blowing at any given moment and cannot predict who will win. Any issue can surface at the last minute to influence an election.

At the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee convention, I listened as several Arab Americans who had been hired by the Biden administration as part of the president’s long-forgotten “partnership” with the community explained why they quit over America’s support of Israel’s Gaza war. They said they were repeatedly told that “Arab voters” would come back to Harris and the........

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