Trump-backing Muslim voters realize they'made a terrible mistake'

February 05, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks during a change of command ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters.

The head of the Arab American Institute, James Zogby, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Wednesday that many Muslim voters are regretting their decisions in the 2024 presidential election.As Keilar emphasized during his discussion with Zogby, Trump earned a significant boost from Muslim voters in 2024 as a result of outrage with the Biden administration for its role in assisting the Israeli government's invasion in Gaza, which has killed over 50,000 Palestinians and has been called by Zogby as a "genocide."In fact, Trump in 2024 became the first Republican presidential candidate in more than two decades to win in Dearborn, Michigan, which has the largest Muslim American population of any city in the United States.When asked by Keilar if he'd spoken with any of these voters since the election, he replied that he had and they were firmly against Trump's recently stated desire to ethnically cleanse Gaza by removing all Palestinians from their land."Many of [the voters] stayed home, and some of them voted for Donald Trump," he said. "But they are now feeling very clearly that they made a big mistake. And, you know, sort of like the kid who gets in trouble and his parents send him to his room and he goes out there and starts throwing stuff around... in a pique of anger. All he's got is a mess and that's what we've got here.

"People didn't vote for Kamala Harris. They voted for Donald Trump. They had their tantrum. And now look what we got. We got a crazy man in the White House who's doing and projecting things that are really, really problematic."