Michigan Mayor Amer Ghalib says Republican is ‘the fitting alternative’ regardless of some disagreements.
The mayor of the one metropolis in the US with an all-Muslim authorities has endorsed former President Donald Trump for November’s presidential election.
Amer Ghalib, who leads town of Hamtramck within the essential battleground state of Michigan, stated on Sunday that he believes the Republican candidate is “the fitting alternative” regardless of their disagreements on some points.
“President Trump and I’ll not agree on all the pieces, however I do know he’s a person of ideas,” Ghalib stated in a submit on Fb.
“Although it’s wanting good, he might or might not win the election and be the forty seventh president of the US, however I consider he’s the fitting alternative for this important time. I’ll not remorse my determination it doesn’t matter what the result can be, and I’m able to face the results.”
“Now, let the Caravan start its journey,” Ghalib added. “That is simply the start line.”
Hamtramck, which has a inhabitants of about 28,000 folks, made headlines in 2021 when it turned the primary US metropolis to elect an all-Muslim Metropolis Council and a Muslim mayor.
Ghalib, who immigrated to the US from Yemen when he was 17, made the announcement rather less than per week after assembly Trump earlier than a city corridor within the Michigan metropolis of Flint.
Ghalib advised The Detroit Information final week that the pair had mentioned the issues of Arab and Muslim People and that Trump had requested his endorsement.
Michigan is one in every of seven key swing states anticipated to resolve the result of November’s contest between Trump and his Democratic Occasion rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
Opinion polls recommend a decent race between Trump and Harris each nationally and in battlegrounds similar to Michigan.
In the latest common of polls compiled by The New York Instances, Harris leads Trump in Michigan by 50 p.c to 47 p.c.
Trump gained Michigan within the 2016 election in opposition to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, changing into the primary Republican to prevail within the state since George HW Bush in 1988.
President Joe Biden flipped the state again to the Democrats in 2020, beating Trump by a margin of about 150,000 votes.
Muslim-American anger over the Biden administration’s assist for Israel’s conflict on Gaza has turn into a priority for Democrats as they face razor-thin races within the battleground states.
In a ballot launched by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in August, simply 12 p.c of Muslim voters in Michigan expressed assist for Harris, with 18 p.c backing Trump and 40 p.c supporting the Inexperienced Occasion’s Jill Stein.
