US votes interviewed by AFP have agreed that the United States has failed to exercise its leverage over its ally Israel to curtail Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza.
“They’re standing for genocide,” the 45-year-old Palestinian American Linda Shawish who previously voted for Democrats said.
“I definitely won’t be voting Democratic, and if Trump is the Republican candidate, I probably won’t vote at all.”
With a year left until the 2024 presidential election, Arab and Muslim American support for Biden threatens to plummet over his Middle East policy — a factor that could even swing certain states.
In 2020 Biden carried battlegrounds Michigan, Virginia, Georgia and Arizona – but losing Muslim voters in those states could cut short the president’s White House tenure.
