(Washington Examiner) The mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, made headlines last month for endorsing former President Donald Trump.
Mayor Amer Ghalib doesn’t check stereotypical Trump supporter boxes. He’s a 45-year-old Muslim, an Arab American immigrant from Yemen, and the leader of the country’s only city governed entirely by Muslim Americans. He’s also a proud pro-Palestinian activist who backs the progressive Uncommitted Movement.
Ghalib was one of the roughly 100,000 Michigan “uncommitted” voters who cast a protest ballot against President Joe Biden during the state’s Democratic primary this year in a bid to bend his arm on the war in Gaza. The Uncommitted coalition is heavily concentrated in Ghalib’s city, Hamtramck, as well as in Dearborn (and the nearby Dearborn Heights), where the majority of Michigan’s approximately 150,000 Arab and Muslim voters reside. Should they echo Ghalib’s support for Trump on Election Day, the former president could very well win a state he lost by just over 154,000 votes four years ago.
