Huge majorities chose Democrats in the last two presidential elections in South Paterson, but that changed in 2024. Here's why.

Community leaders say Muslim voters were angered by the Biden-Harris administration's inability to stem the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Muslims snubbed Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day over her stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, with about 80% rejecting her at the ballot box, an exit poll reveals.

This year's Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, has blamed Democrats for their election loss, and has said the two party political system in the U.S. is broken. She said Democrats have no one but themselves to blame for another "disastrous" Trump victory.

The results mark a stark shift from 2020, when 69% of Muslim Americans voted for President Joe Biden and 17% voted for Trump. This movement away from the Democratic party was fueled, at least in part, by the U.S. government’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, Robert McCaw, CAIR’s national government affairs director, said in a news release.

In that same area, Vice President Kamala Harris received only 23%. The nearly 60-percentage point drop in four years was in an area where an estimated three-fourths of the residents are of Arab descent,

Donald Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate since 2000 to win the majority-Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan.

Collins ascended to the top Republican position on the House Judiciary Committee, subsequently emerging as a powerful defender of Trump during his impeachment.

Four years after Biden dominated there, Trump got 42% of the vote, a plurality. Green Party nominee Jill Stein nearly cracked 20%. Harris landed in the middle, with 36%. According to national exit polls, more than 6 in 10 Muslims voted for the Democrat – a clear majority, but a stark decline from past cycles.

In the days since the presidential election, American Muslim political and civic leaders are debating whether continuing to work within the country’s two-party system will ever produce gains for the Muslim community.

Some people are once again questioning election results, but this time many of those voices are coming from the left.

How Trump’s rising popularity in New York (and everywhere else) exposed the Democratic Party’s break with reality.