Vice President Kamala Harris’ Muslim downside hasn’t been solved as early voting begins, and it may very well be sufficient to doom her in essential swing states.
New polling of American Muslims exhibits the Democratic presidential nominee has but to consolidate the demographic — and a stunning spoiler is greater than holding her personal in some battlegrounds
Inexperienced Celebration candidate Jill Stein leads Harris among the many group in six battleground states general, 30% to twenty-eight%, per the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ survey launched Monday.
And Stein (a serial candidate at this level) leads outright in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Two of those races are shut. One in all them just isn’t — and sadly for Harris, that’s the one with the best focus of exponents of the Islamic religion.
Within the Grand Canyon State, Stein has 35% help to Harris’ 29%; she additionally leads Harris in Wisconsin, 44% to 39%.
However the issue is most acute for the Democrat within the Wolverine State, the place practically 250,000 Muslims reside amid 8.4 million registered voters. President Biden’s downside with “uncommitted” voters within the uncompetitive major has seemingly spilled over into Harris’ general-election race, regardless of the veep’s fitful, triangulating requires a “cease-fire” throughout her in any other case canned rally speeches.
Harris ekes out 12% help amongst Muslim voters, placing her not simply behind Stein’s 40% however former President Donald Trump’s 18%.
Extremely, given Trump spent years arguing for a “whole and full shutdown of Muslims getting into america,” his second place in Michigan isn’t his finest exhibiting with the group.
Trump accomplishes that in Nevada, the place his 27% is actually a useless warmth with Harris’ 29%, with Stein taking 13%.
Muslims usually are not a monolith both; the info reveal totally different backing based mostly on age group — and which will have provisional excellent news for Harris with higher-propensity voters.
The vice chairman has roughly a 3rd of help throughout your complete pattern amongst voters 50 and older, however Stein is not any slouch, with a 3rd amongst these 30 to 39 years of age and a 3rd in her personal proper amongst senior residents.
Trump takes a sixth of help amongst 30-something Muslims. Minor candidates Cornel West and Chase Oliver are non-factors with Muslims, monitoring with their efficiency exterior that demographic.
Over your complete Muslim-American pattern, Stein holds her personal with Democrats and independents, with 32% of help amongst Dems in comparison with 33% for Harris, and 30% amongst independents in contrast with 32% for the veep. Trump has 48% with Republican Muslims, with Stein at 18% and Harris at 11% amongst that group.
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