Donald Trump was last month elected for a second term as US president, winning not only all of the nation’s seven swing states but also a clear majority of the popular vote. Many Arab American voters are believed to have supported Trump, with the remainder split between Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris and Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein.

Although Trump could easily have won without their support, Arab and Muslim voters formed a key constituency for the president-elect and helped fuel his return to the White House.

Even before incumbent President Joe Biden stumbled during his debate with Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, two growing movements led by Arab and Muslim Americans raised the specter that Biden could not defeat the former president, a prospect the mainstream American media largely rejected at the time. The Abandon Biden movement and the Uncommitted National Movement energized voters to make their concerns about the Biden administration’s unconditional support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza a catalyst for change.

Although the mainstream news media pretty much ignored the protests led by Abandon Biden and Uncommitted, their frustrations with Biden’s policies and, later, Harris’ failure to take their anger over Gaza seriously........

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