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Despite the progress of the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris On her Republican rival Donald Trump In recent polls, more than before last week's debate, the Muslim vote has put the Green Party candidate in the spotlight. Thanks Jill who openly supports the Palestinian cause and has chosen an American Muslim to serve as vice president if she wins.
Although Stein's chances are dwindling given the historical dominance of the two parties, Democratic andRepublican on The White House Stein is far ahead of Harris and Trump in 3 of the 7 states described as “decisive.”
This appearance of the independent candidate raises a difference in the positions of Muslim voters, who are divided between those who see voting for Stein as a waste of votes and those who see the need to punish Harris and Trump for their position on the war in Gaza Strip.
Muslims voted in crucial states for current President Joe Biden and played a major role in getting him to the White House, but he paid virtually no attention to them when the war broke out in Gaza.
punitive vote
According to Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Al-Baqali, those who support the idea of voting for the third candidate believe that voting for Harris, based on the premise that she is the lesser of two evils – as other American Muslims believe – will make her never pay attention to Muslim votes in any future elections, while voting for a third party would shed light and make it more present in future elections.
The number of Muslim voters is just over a million, but they are distributed in states that are of great importance in the Electoral College, which has the final say in who wins the White House.
Most of these people are concentrated in the seven swing states that polls and analyses indicate will have the final say in the upcoming elections, where candidates Harris and Trump are very close.
However, a poll conducted by the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) showed the Green Party candidate leading significantly in three of these seven states, where she received the support of 40% of the Muslim vote in Michigan, compared to 18% for Trump and 12% for Harris.
Stein also received 44% of the Muslim and Arab vote in Wisconsin, compared to 39% for Harris and 8% for Trump. In Arizona, too, the Green Party candidate received 35% of the Muslim vote, compared to 29% for Harris and 15% for Trump.
Important percentage
Commenting on these figures, Democratic Party political advisor Chris Lapetina said that Muslim votes in US Not big but important and yet not much focus in the media.
Lapetina said in a window broadcast by Al Jazeera from the United States that Trump is not seeking to win the votes of Muslim voters in swing states, but he just does not want these votes to go to Harris.
Lapetina believes that Harris' team has huge financial resources and says that it still has time to correct the situation from what it was before Biden withdrew from the election race.
He concluded that Harris' team is competing primarily with Trump and is relying on a lot of the bad talk that the Republican candidate said about Muslims, including that he considered the word Palestinian an insult, and they will try to build on that to attract Muslim votes.
In contrast, Tim Constantine, deputy editor of the Washington Times, said that Harris will get some Muslim votes but not many because she is part of the Biden administration, which has taken no steps to stop the war in Gaza.
Constantine said Harris continues to speak in generalities when asked about the war, while in practice she shares Biden's view.
However, the spokesman, a Republican, considered that Biden did not provide unprecedented support. To Israel During the war, he even said that he and his team were working against the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin Netanyahu Because they were originally doing the same thing when they were in the administration of the former president. Barack Obama.
He pointed out that Jews who historically vote for Democrats no longer do so, adding, “Although their support has declined by a small percentage, it has declined.”
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's Washington bureau chief, Abdul Rahim Fakara, said that Trump says he does not need a second debate with Harris because he won the last one from his point of view, while the media and analysts say that he has become afraid of debating her for fear that she will shock him by talking about things he does not want to express his opinion on.
The latest Reuters/Exos poll showed Harris now leading Trump by 5 points, compared to 2 points before the debate.
