US Democrats recovered support from Muslim voters, poll suggests

Ninety-seven percent of Muslim respondents successful a CAIR survey accidental they voted for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Muslim voters successful the United States overwhelmingly favoured Democratic candidates successful last week’s elections, amid mounting choler astatine President Donald Trump’s policies, a caller exit canvass suggests.

The survey, released by the Council connected American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) connected Monday, shows 97 percent of Muslim voters successful New York backed antiauthoritarian socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

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Virginia’s Democratic Muslim American Senator Ghazala Hashmi besides received 95 percent of the Muslim ballot successful the authorities successful her palmy bid for lieutenant governor, according to the poll.

Non-Muslim, much centrist Democratic candidates received beardown backing from Muslim voters arsenic well, the CAIR survey showed.

Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger and New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill – Democratic congresswomen who won the gubernatorial races – some received astir 85 percent enactment from Muslim voters, according to the survey.

California’s Proposition 50, which approved a legislature representation that favours Democrats, won 90 percent enactment from Muslim voters, the canvass suggested.

CAIR said it interviewed 1,626 self-identified Muslim respondents for the survey.

The radical said the results showed precocious turnout from Muslim voters.

“These exit canvass results item an encouraging truth: American Muslims are showing up, speaking out, and shaping the aboriginal of our democracy,” the radical said successful a statement.

“Across 4 states, Muslim voters demonstrated singular engagement and committedness to the civic process, casting ballots that bespeak their increasing relation arsenic progressive participants successful American life.”

The November 4 election, 1 twelvemonth up of the 2026 midterm elections that volition find power of Congress, offered a boost for Democrats.

But the contention for New York, which saw Trump endorse erstwhile Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, saw a spike of Islamophobic rhetoric, peculiarly from Republican lawmakers and commentators.

CAIR said Muslim voters showed that they are rising up successful “the look of anti-Muslim bigotry” to “build a amended aboriginal for themselves and their neighbors, proving that participation, not prejudice, defines our nation’s strength”.

The survey’s results amusement that the Democrats are recovering the enactment of immoderate Muslim voters who deserted the enactment successful past year’s statesmanlike predetermination owed to erstwhile President Joe Biden’s uncompromising enactment for Israel amid the brutal battle connected Gaza.

CAIR said it recorded 76 Muslim candidates successful past week’s election, 38 of whom won.

In Michigan, the Detroit suburbs of Hamtramck, Dearborn and Dearborn Heights elected Muslim mayors successful the polls.

Several Muslim candidates are vying for seats successful Congress successful adjacent year’s election, including Abdul el-Sayed, who is seeking a US Senate spot successful Michigan.