Some of her supporters online have channelled their frustration onto Arab and Muslim voters
People wait to hear Democratic presidential candidate US Vice President Kamala Harris speak and concede the election, at Howard University in Washington, DC, on 6 November 2024 (Kevin Dietsch/AFP)
Published date: 6 November 2024 22:01 GMT
Despite the Democrats losing the popular vote in the election to the Republicans for the first time since 2004 – and by more than five million votes – many pro-Kamala Harris social media users aimed their frustrations at pro-Palestine voters, specifically Arabs and Muslims, on Wednesday.
Although many Arab and Muslim Americans voted for the Green Party’s Jill Stein, she received only 0.4 percent of the national total, amounting to 628,525 votes. This is less than half of what Stein received in 2016 when she received 1,449,370 votes.
Former President Donald Trump overperformed across the electorate. The Financial Times reported that Trump gained ground in all but two states, specifically among those in the working class who care most about the economy and immigration.
Even if Harris had managed to win Michigan in the electoral college, which is home to a significant Muslim and Arab voting bloc, she would have still lost the election.
« Asian, Black, Hispanic and white voters all moved towards Trump. « Harris only increased her vote share among the over-65s and with white college-educated women, » the FT report said.
A lot of the liberal critique of the outcome has fallen on the shoulders of those who abandoned the Democrats for Trump or third-party candidates, in response to the party’s ongoing military and financial support for Israel and refusal to engage in any conversation on an arms embargo.
hope yalls third party voting was worth my rights! i’m sure that twitter activism was so worth it!— skye (@shesgotawy) November 6, 2024
One X account user posted: « Fuck Gaza at this point! And I mean that from the bottom of my ass! They at harris rally screaming every time she speak and never at a trump rally! Good! Let Israel run wild on them. »
Many have posted that they hope Gaza is made into a parking lot as punishment.
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