(Middle East Eye) More Muslims shifted to the right in this year’s midterm elections, compared to how they voted in the 2018 midterms.
In the 2022 midterm election, 28 percent of Muslim voters voted Republican, which is an 11 percent increase from the 2018 midterms, Wall Street Journal exit polling revealed. Overall 70 percent of Muslims voted Democratic.
The new findings are consistent with previous elections. In an Associated Press exit poll, it was shown that more Muslims voted for Donald Trump in 2020, compared to 2016.
In its own poll, the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (Ispu), an American Muslim research organisation, found that from 2019 to 2020, the percentage of Muslims who increased their approval rating of then-president Trump jumped from 16 percent to 30 percent.
