Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the endorsement of one of the nation’s largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, marking a significant boost to her campaign since many Muslim and Arab American organizations have opted to support third-party candidates or not endorse.

Emgage Action, the political arm of an 18-year-old Muslim American advocacy group, endorsed Harris’ presidential campaign on Wednesday, saying in a statement provided first to The Associated Press that the group “recognizes the responsibility to defeat” Donald Trump in November.

The group, based in Washington D.C., operates in eight states, with a significant presence in the key battlegrounds of Michigan and Pennsylvania. The organization will now focus its ongoing voter-outreach efforts on supporting Harris, in addition to down-ballot candidates.

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    Expect an immediate and massive wave of disinformation targeted to Muslim voters.

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if the pro-Stein disinfo increases too. It wouldn’t be a coincidence…

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    This will be crucial in MI. I hope people are realizing that even though Joe and Kamala are not perfect in every aspect, Trump is the greatest threat for the future generations. A lot needs to change in terms of US foreign policy posture in Middle East but republicans are absolutely the wrong people to be in charge of that.

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      Maybe some people are just frustrated they are being told that the situation in America is far more dire than what’s going on in the middle east, so we can’t worry about that too much right now.

      Funny how a nation full of immigrants can’t seem to figure out why some groups of immigrants might care about more than just the country they currently live in.

      This was essentially voters going on strike to try to effect change, and I can’t say I’m against that. And look, everyone can calm down now because the strikes been called off.

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    really it only makes sense.

    the obvious glaring problem with all of these people who say they support the plight of the gazan people was that if they actually cared for and listened to what the gazan people were telling anyone who would actually listen to them, when it came to who the next american president should be they overwhelmingly said kamala harris.

    these online activists were in effect doing the exact same thing that trump was doing with the border. they didn’t care or cared very little about gazans other than using them as a tool to try to affect the kind of political revolution they jerk off to every night destroying the “corrupt duopoly” as their only real political goal.

    it’s good that a leading muslim organization a) listened to what gazans were saying b) considered all consequences of electing either candidate, not just the consequences regarfing gaza and c) knows that there is no such thing as a perfect political party or candidate and that demanding purity on an issue important to them is much likely to get them less influence.

    hopefully this news shuts these people up for the next few weeks.

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      they didn’t care or cared very little about gazans other than using them as a tool…

      Which is very fitting, as everyone seems to be doing that. “No you cannot come into our country and I tegrate a d forget it ever happened, because that means Israël won. You need to stay in your predicament to make a point”.

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    Horrid title, but yeah.

    Trump’s view is roughly summarized as ‘kill as many Muslims as possible and let god sort it out’.

    I’d vote for anything better than that

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      We are currently sending weapons to Israel to kill civilian Muslims. The current administration is not any better!

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      And said that he’d bring it back. And that he’d deport people who support Palestinians. And that he’d send federal troops into cities to round them up…

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    Project 2O25 is being implemented with or without Trump. Unless there is a massive wave in November we can expect this rightward push to continue. This country is for sale and the White Supremacists backed by Christians are ready to buy it.

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      Neither. There has been no progress made. Biden keeps drawing lines and saying if they cross it blah blah blah, and then nothing over and over.

      People should be upset the current administration is shielding Israel, its absurd. Its not the voters fault the government got caught with its pants down before a presidential election.

      I want trump to lose as much as the next person but I’m not voting for the loser. Taking any criticism of the current government or democrats in general as helping the republicans is ridiculous.