Turmoil in the Middle East poses a risk to President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, threatening to sap turnout among some of his key supporters — and possibly flip the race to Donald Trump.
Today’s Michigan primary may deliver a symbolic rebuke to the president’s handling of the Gaza crisis. Much of the swing state’s sizable Arab American population blames Biden for siding with Israel and failing to stop the war. Many younger voters and Black Americans agree.
President Joe Biden
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The danger may not lie in losing votes directly to Trump, whose administration was strongly pro-Israel and belligerent toward Iran. Rather, it’s that ...