NY Times: “Two weeks ago, an influential group of 15 Muslim religious and business leaders convened at an office space in Dunwoody, Ga., a suburb north of Atlanta, to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris.
Most were wary of her.
In Georgia, as elsewhere, her standing among Arab American and Muslim voters, a traditionally Democratic bloc, is precarious. As the Biden administration stands firm in its support for Israel as it wages war in Gaza and now Lebanon, an erosion of support for the Democratic ticket could cost Ms. Harris in multiple battlegrounds, including Michigan, where these voters have traditionally made up a critical portion of her party’s winning coalition.
With polls still showing the presidential race a dead heat against former President Donald J. Trump, Ms. Harris’s Muslim backers in Georgia are making a frantic push to reach voters who are angry and upset about the escalating violence in the Mideast. One attendee showed up to the gathering in Dunwoody with a message he hoped the others there would hear, and spread — that if the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was their top concern, Mr. Trump and Republicans would be worse.”