On May 17 and 18 the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Truth Project asked 36,139 Arab Americans and “allied voters,” “Who are you voting for in November?” 2,196 people responded.
2% Trump
7% Biden
25% Jill Stein
20% Cornell West
19% Undecided
23% Uncommitted
3% Stay home
well whatever you do, dont support the one side that doesnt want to take voting rights away from brown people.
im sure everything will turn out groovy for arab americans under trump. vote your conscience!
Yeah hey man I’m a white middle upper class straight white guy. I don’t want the orange turd to win but if he does I’m probably pretty low on the death squad hit list.
These guys on the other hand…
I’ll at least enjoy some nice tax cuts if they get Trump elected, so there’s a silver lining for me.
Look, I get it, Brandon is captive to AIPAC. But Trump is clearly the worst option, the one person who will catalyze more death. You got two bad choices, but at least Brandon preserves some semblance of hope for the future.
A little context:
According the Arab American Institute less than 1% of American citizens are Arab American.
Arab Americans do make up significant voting blocks in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Even though they are an extremely small minority, they may have to power to cost Joe Biden these key swing states and hand the election to Donald Trump.
Most older Americans support Biden’s response to Israel according to this poll. On the other hand younger Americans largely disapprove of his response. There’s a lot more nuance than given in my brief summary, this is just to illustrate the diversity of opinion among voters.
Joe Biden needs to balance rejecting young Americans who are unreliable voters and Arab Americans who are a very small minority with rejecting older Americans who are a large reliable voting block. Again there’s a lot more nuance here that I’m not going to go into, I’m merely pointing out that no matter what choice Joe Biden makes it’s going to alienate some voters and could potentially hand the election to Trump.
This isn’t a real poll. I expect the numbers are terrible, but these numbers are worthless. They pushed a question to 30,000 people they identified as Arab American or “allies”, I’m guessing their mailing list or social media followers, and got an extremely low response rate. And since they only asked a single question (i.e., no demographics), even if this was a random sample, they would have no way of rebalancing it to represent the broader population.
Day after the election:
