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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Shola Lawal

American Muslims helped Biden win in 2020. Will they abandon him now?

Students from Hunter College chant and hold up signs during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the entrance of their campus on October 12, 2023, New York, US [Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images]

In 2020, Joe Biden won the state of Michigan by a much closer margin over then-incumbent President Donald Trump than the polls and pundits had predicted: just more than 150,000 votes.

Two partly overlapping sets of voters helped tip Biden over the line in Michigan and other vital swing states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin: Muslim Americans and Arab Americans.

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