Muslim Votes in American Elections | sirajlive.com

With only two weeks left for the US presidential election, the country’s Muslim minority voters are increasingly favoring the main candidates, <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris from the Democratic Party and Donald Trump from the Republican Party. Muslims make up 1.34 percent of the American population, but the Muslim vote is crucial in swing states where the Democratic and Republican parties have equal strength. With the vote difference between Kamala and Trump getting more and less in the polls, it is certain that the Muslim votes will determine the degree of victory and defeat. According to the latest poll by NBS News, Kamala and Trump are tied. Both received 48 percent support. Biden has openly acknowledged the role of Muslim voters in his victory in the 2020 election. In the last election, Biden received 70 percent of the Muslim vote in Michigan. This time, Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic candidate because Biden withdrew from the race.

While the world is considering the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, they will not be seen in the US presidential election. Students, the youth community and the country’s Muslims are protesting against US aid to Israel. When two evils come against each other, the question of which side they should take becomes confusing.
The presidential election is on the 5th of next month. Along with the President, the members of the Senate will also be elected on that day. While both parties highlight the nation’s economy, health care, climate change, immigration, national security, and social justice as key campaign issues in this election, sentiment among Muslims, among others, will The US administration’s relationship with Israel also affected the election. Representatives of Kamala and Trump are communicating with Muslim groups knowing this. Kamala Harris met with Arab American Muslim leaders in Michigan the other day. The media reports that Kamala has expressed her disapproval of Israel’s attack on Gaza on Muslim leaders. It was Vice Presidential candidate JD Vancey who contacted Muslim leaders on Trump’s behalf. During the Trump administration, visas to the United States were denied to citizens of some Muslim-majority countries. Vansi has assured the Muslim leaders that there will be no more such decisions from Trump’s side that will affect Muslims. Both candidates remain silent on the main demand of the Muslim groups that the US should stop supplying Israel with weapons. So strong is the influence of the Israel lobby. The US leader will not deny Israel.
Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have not changed their stated position on Israel. Even as protests are registered, Muslim groups and individuals are coming forward to support the candidates. There is no unity. Hamtram, Michigan Mayor Amir Ghalib, who met with Trump last month, expressed his support. Amir Ghalib is the only Muslim mayor in America. Amir Ghalib argues that only Trump can prevent a world war so Trump should win. He also clarified that he has differences of opinion with Trump on many issues.
However, prominent Muslim groups, scholars, and imams have come out against Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. They want to vote for third-party candidates Jill Stein of the Green Party and independent candidate Cornell West. Both have declared their support for the people of Gaza. Left fielder Chase Oliver is also in the running.

The Coalition of American Muslim Organizations has announced that it will not endorse Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. This federation is a group of Muslims with roots in Asia, Africa and Arab countries. According to a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslims in the states of Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin will support the Green Party candidate Stein.
A study by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US, suggests that the Muslim vote in America will be crucial in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Six swing states have the largest Muslim votes – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. A survey conducted by CAIR among Muslim voters in these states found that a good percentage of voters leaned Democratic. But the survey also shows that there is a slight difference between the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and the Green Party candidate Jill Stein in terms of Muslim support. Forty thousand people participated in the survey. Those who participated in the survey said that Trump is clearly anti-Israel and anti-immigrant, and that Trump has shown anti-Muslim sentiments in his previous administration.

Meanwhile, a group of Muslim scholars and imams in the United States called on Muslim voters to refrain from supporting the current vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, due to the continued US support for Israeli attack on Gaza. Their call is to vote for any third party candidate, including Jill Stein from the Green Party. Abstention from voting is defined as escaping from exercising the right. Therefore, their assessment is that Muslims will vote for a third party despite knowing that there is no chance of winning, apart from Trump and Kamala, to mark their protest in the presidential election .