Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn's first Muslim mayor, symbolises Arab-American discontent over Biden's support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, posing a huge electoral risk for Democrats in states reliant on pivotal voters in November elections.
Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn's first Muslim mayor, symbolises Arab-American discontent over Biden's support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, posing a huge electoral risk for Democrats in states reliant on pivotal voters in November elections.Abdullah Hammoud's profile surged in January after he declined an invitation to meet with Biden campaign officials seeking to shore up the Muslim vote.
In 2020, Dearborn voters overwhelmingly supported Biden and their ballots could tip the scales in Michigan — a crucial swing state that may ultimately decide the White House winner in November's election. Hammoud, who won't meet the Constitutional requirement of being 35 until next March, was too young to accept the role, though he said the offer was"very humbling.""I would say that no presidential candidate has earned my vote," said the father-of-two, urging both parties to pay attention to increasing public disapproval of Israel's actions.
The son of Lebanese immigrants, Hammoud grew up in a"working poor" blue collar family. His father drove a truck while his mother's father worked on an auto factory assembly line. But the sudden death of his beloved elder brother — Hammoud was the second of five children — made him re-evaluate his priorities, and in 2016 he won election to the state legislature.Then in 2022, he became the second in a trio of new Muslim mayors in the southeast Michigan cities of Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck.For decades, the city had been marred by a reputation for racism, exemplified by the openly segregationist policies of former mayor Orville Hubbard.
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