'Major betrayal': Voters who helped Trump win say GOP has turned on them

Two years after Arab and Muslim voters helped deliver Michigan to President Donald Trump, many say the Republican Party has repaid them with attacks.“There’s no thanking, there’s attacking,” Husham Al-Husainy, an Iraqi American imam in Dearborn, told MS NOW.Al-Husainy backed Trump in 2024, as did many Arab and Muslim voters protesting the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Trump won nearly half the vote in the state’s majority-Arab precincts, research suggests. This year, Al-Husainy is backing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Senate, and he said most local Muslim voters he knows who supported Trump will do the same.“They changed,” he said of Republicans. “We didn’t.”Trump has repeatedly targeted El-Sayed, who would be the nation’s first Muslim senator. At a rally in Georgia on Friday, Trump baselessly called him a “jihadist” and “a member of the Muslim Brotherhood” and mocked his name. On Truth Social, Trump has repeatedly called him...