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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins in Detroit

‘They blew it’: Democrats lost 22,000 votes in Michigan’s heavily Arab American cities

a woman wearing an 'Arab Americans for Trump' shirt smiles in a room full of people
Rola Makki (center), an outreach chair for the Michigan GOP, attends an election night watch party in Novi, Michigan. Photograph: Sarah Rice/Getty Images

Kamala Harris received at least 22,000 fewer votes than Joe Biden did four years ago in Michigan’s most heavily Arab American and Muslim cities, a Guardian analysis of raw vote data in the critical swing state finds.

The numbers also show Trump made small gains – about 9,000 votes – across those areas, suggesting Harris’s loss there is more attributable to Arab Americans either not voting or casting ballots for third-party candidates.

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