(Politico) Donald Trump made an appeal to Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan on Friday, leveraging the ongoing war in the Middle East and his increasingly inflammatory rhetoric against Republican former Rep. Liz Cheney in an attempt to garner support from the unlikely voting bloc.
“Many Muslim and Arab Americans have friends and family living in the Middle East, and Kamala is campaigning with warmongers like Liz Cheney,” Trump said at a rally in Warren, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. “They want to get the Arab American vote, they want to get the Muslim votes. So she picks Liz Cheney, whose father virtually destroyed the Middle East. I don’t think that’s … working out too well.”
Earlier Friday, Trump had visited with members of the Lebanese community in Dearborn, Michigan, the country’s largest majority-Arab city.
