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Youssef Chouhoud, Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University

An overlooked and undercounted group of Arab American and Muslim voters may have outsized impact on 2024 presidential election

People demonstrate in support of Palestinians on Oct. 14, 2023, in Dearborn, Mich. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Though domestic issues tend to motivate most U.S. voters, the war in the Middle East may be the dominant issue in mind for an increasingly important voting block: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans.

Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, members of these communities have watched the rising death toll and heard vivid accounts of the horrors befalling Palestinians in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to bombard the enclave with the support of the Biden administration.

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