{"id":942,"date":"2024-01-09T11:10:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T11:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/the-us-election-looms-arab-americans-feel-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-moustafa-bayoumi\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T11:10:56","slug":"the-us-election-looms-arab-americans-feel-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-moustafa-bayoumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/the-us-election-looms-arab-americans-feel-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-moustafa-bayoumi\/","title":{"rendered":"The US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard place | Moustafa Bayoumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arab, Muslim and younger voters face a choice between Biden, who does little to stop mass Palestinian death, and the xenophobic Trump<\/p>\n<p>We have a chaotic and unpredictable election year ahead. That would normally elicit anxiety, but mostly I\u2019m feeling hopeless. <\/p>\n<p>The election is less than a year away, and Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating has sunk to its lowest level yet, clocking in at a paltry 38%, according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/12\/18\/joe-biden-polls-campaign\/\">Washington Post<\/a> average of 17 different polls. Biden\u2019s unblinking support for Israel and unwillingness to demand a ceasefire has made dear Uncle Joe appear to many as just another callous politician, numb to Palestinian suffering.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s had a staggering effect on the key coalitions Biden will need to win a second term. If you move in Arab American or Muslim American circles, as I do, support for Biden\u2019s re-election is rapidly crumbling: the Arab American Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaiusa.org\/library\/can-biden-win-back-arab-american-voters\">found<\/a> that only 17% of Arab Americans say they will vote for Biden in 2024, down from 59% who did in 2020. Muslim Americans recently began an #AbandonBiden campaign, focusing on the sizable Muslim American communities in swing states such as Michigan, Arizona and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/09\/2024-presidential-election-israel-gaza-arab-american-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab, Muslim and younger voters face a choice between Biden, who does little to stop mass Palestinian death, and the xenophobic Trump We have a chaotic and unpredictable election year ahead. That would normally elicit anxiety, but mostly I\u2019m feeling hopeless. The election is less than a year away, and Joe Biden\u2019s approval rating has &#8230; <a title=\"The US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard place | Moustafa Bayoumi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/the-us-election-looms-arab-americans-feel-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-moustafa-bayoumi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard place | Moustafa Bayoumi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}