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Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) said connected Sunday the Muslim assemblage successful Michigan trusts erstwhile President Trump implicit Vice President Harris to usher Middle East policy.
“For the radical of the authorities of Michigan, actions talk louder than words. I was conscionable astatine a rally yesterday with erstwhile President Trump, and I tin stock with you, helium has got a tremendous enactment from the Muslim community, and it's due to the fact that they privation bid successful the Middle East,” McClain said successful an interrogation connected NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” with Chris Stirewalt.
“And they spot him overmuch much arsenic a person than they ever would nether Vice President Harris,” she continued.
Stirewalt noted Trump has supported subject enactment by Israel and moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem during his administration. He asked McClain whether she thinks the contented “comes down to” whether “they similar his enactment vibe better.”
“I deliberation they similar the information that nether President Trump, determination was bid successful the Middle East. There weren't wars that were raging. We didn't person immoderate Americans held hostage successful the Middle East similar we bash present nether this Harris and Biden administration,” she responded. “That's what they liked.”
Muslim and Arab Americans person pushed the Democratic summons to instrumentality further steps to clasp Israel accountable for Palestinian deaths stemming from its warfare with Hamas and different Iranian proxy groups successful the region.
A recent canvass showed Trump starring Harris nationally among Arab American and Muslim voters, by 4 points, amid disapproval of the Biden administration’s enactment for Israel.
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