He is lacking in really making people wear a mask.” ![]() ![]() But I don’t believe we should reject him over that. “Anybody in his place would have done the same. “As a physician, if we took everything a patient said out of their mouth, we would never be able to diagnose them,” Khan said. But Trump-voting Muslims who spoke to the Guardian revealed a wide variety of reasons for backing a president who had termed their own religious group “ a massive problem”.Įven as the United States leads in coronavirus case count and number of deaths, Khan said he believed Trump handled the pandemic as best he could, but wished he would advise Americans to wear a mask more. Though Muslims account for less than 1% of the total US electorate, in places like Michigan, these voters can potentially be key to winning a state in a tight election battle, as happened in 2016 and again in 2020.Įxit polls can be notoriously misleading due to a number of factors such as the time the poll was conducted and whether or not a voter is telling the truth about if and who they voted for. That percentage was higher than the results from an exit poll conducted by the Council on American Islamic Relations, or Cair, that counted 18% of Muslim votes going for Trump. We should take the good and leave the bad Dr Khalid KhanĪ survey conducted by the Associated Press revealed that while the majority of Muslims interviewed voted for the president-elect, 35% said they voted for Trump. In fact, the margin between Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden among Muslims was closer than experts predicted, revealing Muslim voters are not a monolithic bloc and can be courted by Republicans, even when apparently targeted by their policies. ![]() Broad-brush discrimination against refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, most of whom are women and children runs counter to our national security interests, and will likely be used as a terrorist recruitment tool,” Harris said at the time.īut despite Trump’s policies against the religious group, some Muslims like Khan, still voted for him. Trump’s travel ban that targeted mainly Muslim countries in 2017 sparked outrage not just from American Muslims but from Senator Bernie Sanders the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer and the then US senator for California and now the vice-president-elect, Kamala Harris. Trump spent much of his presidency pushing anti-Muslim policies.
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