Alex Seitz-Wald is a senior political reporter for NBC News.
Last month, Mohammed Hassan, a longtime city councilor in Hamtramck, Michigan, the only Muslim-majority city in the country, got a call from someone with Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign asking him what they needed to do to win back disaffected Michigan Muslims. “I shouted at them. I shouted, really, I said, ‘You guys are not doing anything! You’re doing nothing! You need to do much much more,’” Hassan said. “I made a big noise.
Recalling the moment weeks later, Romman said she was “totally unsurprised” by the hostility and that, while not representative, it is also not uncommon. “We tried to warn people. I feel like people thought we were just making it up for attention,” Romman said of Muslim and Arab voter disaffection with Democrats over Gaza. “It is not the number one issue for the majority of voters. But it is the number one issue for enough voters to sway the election.
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