President-elect Donald Trump won the Michigan city of Dearborn, a closely watched race seen as a potential barometer of whether the Biden administration’s Middle East policies would factor in at the ballot box.
A majority of the city’s residents—55 percent—are of Middle Eastern descent. A little more than 42 percent of people in the city voted for Trump, according to data from the city clerk reported by the Detroit Free Press, while 36 percent voted for Vice President Kamala Harris. The city was a focal point for the Uncommitted Movement, which sought to pressure the Biden administration to change its stance on Israel and the wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
Leaders of the movement did not endorse Harris, but they called on their supporters not to vote for Trump.
In a sign of discontent with both candidates, the Green Party’s Jill Stein won 18 percent of the vote in Dearborn, compared with less than half a percentage point nationally.
While the war in Gaza appears to have played a role in the results of the vote in pockets of the country such as Dearborn, it’s unlikely to have been a decisive factor in the outcome of the election given the scale of Trump’s lead over Harris.
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