Muslim and Arab-American voters were critical to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 upset victory in Michigan. On Tuesday, he’s counting on them again.
and Arab-American voters were critical to Bernie Sanders’ upset victory in Michigan that gave his 2016 campaign a second life.The Vermont senator has won endorsements from key Muslim elected officials here, tapped Muslim leaders to be his top surrogates, and held a rally this week in one of the largest Muslim communities in the country.
Sanders has long made the case that his economically populist agenda, including his longtime opposition to free trade deals, would enable him to win the industrial Midwest and with it the Electoral College. But Democrats in Michigan, as well as Sanders’ aides and allies, say the race between him and Biden is tight, and a recent poll by Detroit News/WDIV-TV found Biden in the lead by seven percentage points.
Michigan is such a critical state for Sanders that he has canceled events in other states, including Mississippi, in order to blanket Michigan with eight events, including rallies, roundtables and town halls in the week leading up to the primary. Several of Sanders’ top aides have also been dispatched here, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was added to the lineup for his rallies in Grand Rapids and the University of Michigan.
"That will likely net us thousands of votes," said Bill Neidhardt, a Sanders aide sent to Michigan, of the paper’s endorsement. "I view it as a more important endorsement than if the Detroit Free Press came out for us tomorrow."
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