“I’ve been very hopeful and optimistic,” Michael Moore said. “But I’m a lifelong Michigander. I know what the situation is.”
Michael Moore, a Michigan-based filmmaker and political activist, is warning Vice President Kamala Harris that her message to Arab Americans in the swing state is not getting through to the key voting group.
Asked by CNN’s Jim Acosta on Friday if the Harris campaign’s approach to the war in Gaza—arguing that it would be worse under former President Donald Trump—is resonating with Michigan’s Arab community, Moore responded, “No, I don’t really this it is.”
“The people who have lost people in this war, who know friends, relatives who are suffering in Gaza, in West Bank, all of that, it’s very hard to point your finger at them and say, ‘You have to vote. Trump is worse'”, Moore said. “Their answer is, ‘Yeah, he wouldn’t let us fly. There was a travel ban. This is 42,000 dead of my relatives and friends and neighbors and my people.'”
“I’ve been very hopeful and optimistic. I’d like to stay in that headspace, but I’m a lifelong Michigander. I know what the situation is”, he said.
Both campaigns are vying for the Arab American vote this year, and in an election this close, losing any group could be enough to result in an electoral loss.
