/
Trump's victory includes winning the nation's largest majority-Arab city

Trump's victory includes winning the nation's largest majority-Arab city


Trump's victory includes winning the nation's largest majority-Arab city

DEARBORN, Mich. — Dearborn, Michigan, where nearly half of the 110,000 residents are of Arab descent, Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate since former President George W. Bush in 2000 to win the city.

V.P Kamala Harris also lost neighboring Dearborn Heights to Trump, who in his previous term as president banned travel from several mostly-Muslim countries.

Harris lost the presidential vote in two Detroit-area cities with large Arab American populations after months of warnings from local Democrats about the Biden-Harris administration’s unwavering support for Israel in the war in Gaza. Some said they backed Trump after he visited a few days before the election, mingling with customers and staff at a Lebanese-owned restaurant and reassuring people that he would find a way to end the violence in the Middle East.

The shift in Dearborn — where Trump received nearly 18,000 votes compared with Harris' 15,000 — marks a startling change from just four years ago when Joe Biden won in the city by a nearly 3-to-1 margin.

More voters thought Trump would be better able to handle the situation in the Middle East than Harris, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. About half of voters named Trump as better suited, compared with about a third who said Harris.