Jill Stein Wins 22% of Dearborn Vote as Gaza Stings Harris: Network

According to an NBC forecast, Jill Stein won 22% of the vote in the hotly contested city of Dearborn, Michigan.

Kamala Harris won 28% while Donald Trump won 47%, according to unofficial city clerk results reported by the network.

Metro Detroit is home to the nation's largest concentration of Arab Americans, a large portion of whom live in Dearborn. The city — which Democrat Joe Biden won by a 3-1 margin in 2020 — has been rocked by political unrest, with many angered by the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

Stone said Newsweek in September that Harris failed to win the presidential election because she lost crucial support from Muslim and Arab Americans in key battleground states.

The leader of the Green Party placed Israel's wars with Hamas and Hezbollah at the center of her election campaign.

“Democrats cannot win without the support of the Muslim American community. And that community has left the station and is not coming back unless the Democrats decide that winning the election is more important to them than committing genocide,” Stein recounted Newsweek.

“So they need to do a U-turn on genocide and they don’t seem willing to do that. They could win those votes back, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards. So it looks like they are sacrificing several swings.” Israel denies committing genocide.

Israel entered Gaza following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and launched an invasion of Lebanon last month to suppress Hezbollah, the militia that has continually fired rockets into Israeli territory. At least 43,000 people have died in Gaza, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians when it comes to the death toll.

Michigan has more than 200,000 Muslim voters and 300,000 of Middle Eastern or North African descent. Biden won there by 154,000 votes in 2020, while Trump carried the state by a margin of just 10,700 — or 0.23 percent — in 2016.

Stein's policy of bringing about an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza through a complete embargo on U.S. arms against Israel was embraced by Muslim and Arab American communities.

It held its first event with a Muslim-American group in Illinois in February, but support grew over the summer as Israel intensified and expanded its campaign.

“It was as if we were on the same page with the Muslim American community from the beginning, with a very similar humanistic perspective and a sense of the centrality of genocide in this election and its importance to our society and our lives.” Bottom line “We can’t turn away,” said Stein.

“Muslim Americans and Arab Americans really felt like allies here as we worked to end the genocide. It felt like a family affair from the start…we really agree. For a long time this community has not I don't know what direction they will go. We have only recently received this support and are very high in the polls.