A survey shows that Muslim voters in four of six critical swing states are rejecting Vice President Kamala Harris, who faces the “Abandon Harris” campaign over her and President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
Polling from the far-left Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), published Monday, shows that the Green Party’s Jill Stein is leading Harris among Muslim voters in Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin, and Muslim voters in Nevada prefer former President Donald Trump over any candidate in the field.
The United Arab Emirates has notably categorized CAIR as a terrorist organization, and a U.S. federal judge ruled in 2009 that evidence existed “to establish” ties between CAIR and Hamas, as Breitbart News has noted:
In 2007-8, CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. That case, in turn, led the FBI to discontinue its work with the organization. In 2009, a federal judge ruled that the government “produced ample evidence to establish” the ties of CAIR with Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization. The United Arab Emirates labeled CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014 (a decision that the Obama administration opposed).
Turning to the data in CAIR’s poll, in the ever-critical swing state of Michigan, 40 percent of Muslim voters back Stein, as she more than triples Harris’s support. Trump comes in second at 18 percent, followed by Harris at 12 percent. Two percent break for independent candidate Cornel West, while just over two in ten are undecided, and eight percent will not vote.
Michigan was the origin of the national uncommitted movement that saw more than half a million Democrat primary voters across the U.S., including Muslims, Arab-Americans, young voters, and far-left progressives, reject the Biden-Harris administration’s handling the Israel-Hamas war with “uncommitted” votes. The core of the movement’s demands are a ceasefire in the war and a stoppage of weapons to Israel.
In Michigan alone, more than 100,000 voters selected the uncommitted option, approaching the 154,188 vote margin by which President Joe Biden won the state in 2019. The poll illustrates Harris’s lack of appeal to Muslims in the Wolverine State and that the problems that once plagued Biden are now ailing her campaign.
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In Wisconsin, where the uncommitted movement took form with “uninstructed” votes in the primary, Harris is trailing Stein. Stein earned 44 percent of Muslim voters’ responses, Harris garnered 39 percent, and Trump landed eight percent. Eight percent are undecided.
During the Democrat primary in Wisconsin, 48,812 Democrat primary voters chose the “instructed” option in protest of Biden and Harris. This more than doubled Biden’s 20,682 vote margin of victory in 2020.
Harris is also facing problems with Muslim voters in the Sun Belt, as Trump has the edge in Nevada, and Stein leads in Arizona.
In Nevada, the Silver State, 27 percent of Muslim respondents back Trump, and 26 percent support Harris. Stein still lands in double digits at 13 percent, and nine percent support West. A quarter of voters remain undecided.
Stein leads the way in Arizona, with 35 percent support from Muslim voters. Another 29 percent support Harris, and Trump lands 15 percent. Thirteen percent are undecided, and seven percent will sit out the election.
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The only states Harris leads with Muslim voters in this poll are Georgia and Pennsylvania, where she has 43 percent and 37 percent backing, respectively.
Stein is second in Georgia at 17 percent, and Trump is closely behind at 14 percent. Seven percent support Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, and six percent back West. Another 13 percent are either undecided or refuse to vote.
A quarter of Pennsylvania Muslim voters back Stein. Trump comes in at eight percent with the demographic in the Keystone State, and West lands at four percent. Nearly one in five are undecided, and six percent will not vote.
When each state’s responses are grouped collectively into a larger sample, Stein is at 30 percent with Muslim voters in swing states, Harris is at 28 percent, and Trump is at 15 percent. West takes three percent, and Oliver is at one percent.
The CAIR/Molitical Consulting LLC survey includes 1,478 responses, “1076 of which were verified and matched to the national voter file” from August 25-27, 2024. The margin of error for the survey is ±2.95 percentage points.
The poll comes as the pro-Palestinian “Abandon Harris” campaign, which remains registered under Abandon Biden, announced on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in August that it is committed to ensuring a Harris loss in November.
The group wrote in a release its “mission is now laser-focused on exposing and opposing Kamala Harris and her complicity in genocide.”
Even after the release, Harris committed to backing Israel during her interview with CNN’s Dana Bash and said, “No” when Bash asked if there would be any “change in policy in terms of arms and so forth” to Israel. The response sparked an avalanche of criticism from the populist progressive left.
The issue has become a significant threat to Harris’s chances of winning the election.