LAS VEGAS — Muslims snubbed Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day over her stance on the Israel-Hamas battle in Gaza, with about 80% rejecting her on the poll field, an exit ballot reveals.
Regardless of pre-election polling that put the veep at 41% assist amongst Muslim voters, the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ exit survey exhibits she solely garnered 20.3% — a precipitous drop from the 69% President Biden captured in 2020.
Inexperienced Celebration candidate Jill Stein elbowed Harris out of first place, profitable 53% of Muslim voters, and President-elect Donald Trump even trumped Harris within the demo with 21.4% of these votes.
That’s an enchancment from his efficiency 4 years in the past, when he gained simply 17% of Muslims.
Stein and Trump each outperformed pre-election polling, which indicated they’d earn 42% and 10% assist respectively.
Harris, alternatively, underperformed the 41% assist she was projected to obtain pre-election.
The defeated Democrat — who reportedly made completely different, contradictory marketing campaign pitches to Jewish and Arab-American voters over Gaza — fared even worse in Michigan, the place Muslims type a vital voting bloc. A slim 14.3% of Muslims there mentioned she was their choose versus 59.1% for Stein and 22.4% for Trump.
The Harris-Walz marketing campaign didn’t return The Submit’s request for remark.
“Our final exit poll of American Muslim voters confirms that opposition to the Biden administration’s support for the war on Gaza played a crucial role, leading to a sharp drop in support for Vice President Harris compared to the support President Biden received from Muslim voters in 2020,” mentioned Robert S. McCaw, who heads authorities affairs for the group.
CAIR payments itself because the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group. Molitico Consulting performed the ballot on CAIR’s behalf from Nov. 5 to six, with a confidence interval of 95% and a few 2.5-point margin of error.
