Anger over Vice President Kamala Harris’s stance on the war in Gaza likely spelled the end of her presidential hopes in Michigan. 

The battleground state holds the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, many of whom expressed profound disillusionment with the Biden-Harris administration’s policy on the Middle Eastern conflict. Riding off their wave of fury against Harris’s refusal to commit to significant policy changes on the war in Gaza, President-elect Donald Trump found historic levels of support in Dearborn and other majority-Muslim areas across the state.