(Middle East Eye) A large group of Muslim Americans has split its vote evenly between Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the final national poll on Muslim Americans released before the upcoming US presidential election on 5 November.
The poll, published on Friday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), shows Stein and Harris in a statistical tie for the American-Muslim vote, with 42 percent now favouring the Green Party nominee and 41 percent backing the Democratic candidate. The poll has a 2.5 percent margin of error.
A CAIR poll released on 29 August also showed Stein and Harris tied for the Muslim-American vote, with 29 percent of respondents saying they planned to vote for Stein and 28 percent planning to vote for Harris.