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'I'm Voting With My Conscience'

Source: Middle East Eye   November 6, 2024
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"It's hard for privileged people who never endured war to understand." Misho Assi, a political organiser for the Democratic Party in Michigan, says she can't bring herself to ask her community to vote for Kamala Harris while a genocide is ongoing in Gaza, and while her family in Lebanon are being displaced.

Dearborn is home to 200,000 Arab Americans and 300,000 Muslim Americans, making their vote crucial in a tight presidential race that could come down to Michigan.
In 2016, Donald Trump clenched power by winning Michigan by only 10,000 votes. In 2020, Joe Biden won Michigan by 150,000.
Source: Middle East Eye   November 6, 2024
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