Exclusive: Arab-American Democrat Mayor in Key Michigan County Had ‘Very Productive’ Meeting with Trump, Weighs Endorsement

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Posted on 09/21/2024 9:54:06 PM PDT by mbrfl

The Democrat mayor of a community with many Arab-Americans in Wayne County, Michigan, who helped lead the uncommitted movement in the Democrat primary, told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday that his meeting with former President Donald Trump last week “was very productive” and well received by the community, which traditionally votes Democrat.

Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib (D) spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle in a nearly 20-minute segment on the program on the heels of his meeting with Trump in Flint, Michigan.

Hamtramck, along with Dearborn and other cities in Wayne County, have sizable Muslim and Arab-American populations that turned out in full force to protest the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in the Democrat primary.

Michigan was notably where the “uncommitted” movement, made up of Arab-Americans, Muslims, young voters, and far-left progressives, began when more than 100,000 protested the Biden-Harris adminsitration with uncommitted votes in the Democrat primary.

Ghalib said his meeting with Trump materialized in part because many in Hamtramck and these neighboring communities are supportive of him and “the shifting dynamics” he is leading.

“That was the base for my communication with the Republican leadership, which resulted in a meeting with President Trump last week in Flint. It was a very productive meeting for about 20 minutes,” he said.

Trump was accompanied at the meeting by an assistant and Massad Boulos, a Lebanese businessman who is Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law.

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Arab-American doesn't necessarily mean Muslim-American, so it's unclear if the mayor is an Arab Christian or Arab Muslim. But according to Wikipedia, in 2013, Hamtramck was the first in the country to report a Muslim majority population, and 4 of its 6 council members are Muslim.

1 posted on 09/21/2024 9:54:06 PM PDT by mbrfl

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