The warning that went unheeded

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

+ In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump amplified his anti-war rhetoric. Why? According to the New York Times, internal polling showed that still undecided voters were “six times as likely as other battleground-state voters to be motivated by their views of Israel’s war in Gaza.” Either the Harris campaign missed this lurking demographic or, more likely, just didn’t care. Of course, Trump’s still going to give Netanyahu the greenlight to burn Gaza, the West Bank and southern Lebanon to the ground and then target Iran.

+ In the primaries, 100,000 Democrats voted “Uncommitted” as a protest against the Biden-Harris administration’s arming of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Two weeks before the election, Bill Clinton was sent to Benton Harbor to berate them for failing to fall in line. Harris lost Michigan by around 80,000 votes. Maybe they should be blaming Bill?

+ Hamid Bendas, IMEU Policy Project: Trump saw this polling and started kissing babies in Dearborn; Harris’ people saw it and sent Ritchie Torres and Bill Clinton to berate voters in Michigan. I will never understand it.”

+ There are more than 200,000 Muslim voters in Michigan and more than 88,000 Lebanese Americans of any faith and they made Harris pay the price for her indifference to their concerns about their relatives and friends in Gaza and Lebanon.

Vote totals in Rashida Tlaib’s Dearborn, Michigan congressional district…+

Rashida Tlaib 62%
Trump: 43%
Harris: 36
GOP James Hooper 30% (Tlaib’s challenger)
Stein: 15

+ Mouin Rabbani: “For the first time in modern American history contempt and disdain for Arabs, and demonization of Palestinians, has proven to be a losing rather than winning electoral strategy.”

+ But it wasn’t just Arab-American voters in Michigan who’d expressed their distaste for the Biden-Harris administration’s obscene support for genocide in Gaza. Earlier this year, a CBS poll found that 48% of Hispanic registered voters said the war on Gaza would be a “major factor” in their vote for President, a higher percentage than Black (39%) or White (34%) registered voters. In addition, 64% of Hispanics polled said the US should stop sending weapons to Israel. Yet, another warning that went unheeded.