A former Democratic congressional candidate from Michigan.
OK.
His name is Doctor Ahmed Ghanem.
He says he shows up at a campaign event and
they throw him out.
He doesn't know why.
He says he still hasn't been given an explanation.
The campaign said, oh, you're welcome to come to another
one.
It was a mistake.
But they don't say why the mistake was made.
Here's proof that it happened.
I'm going to leave it there.
You want to know why you're kicking me out?
I'm not kicking you out.
The venue's kicked you out.
Who's the venue?
The venue?
How the venue know about me, I have no idea.
They've asked you to leave, so I was going to
do the This is no longer conversation, so can we
please escort to the police?
I'm not hitting you.
It's my hand that's hitting you.
This story could not come at a worse time for
Harris.
Because Michigan is very tight and the Arab community, the
Muslim community here has influence on the vote.
They're like 40% in some of the precincts that they
need.
So it's very tight.
Trump is actually ahead of Harris in the state by
two points with Arab American voters nationally.
So let's discuss, OK, Michigan has the highest concentration of
Muslim voters in a swing state, OK?
And a lot of them have beef with supporting Israel,
which does make it a little odd why they would
vote for Trump because he is absolutely as in favor
of helping Israel, if not more than the Biden Harris
administration.
So Doctor Ghanem joins us now.
Doc, thank you for joining us.
What have you been able to figure out about what
you did or what they did?
Well, thank you for having me so far.
The campaign did not reveal why they today they removed
me.
I kept asking them they issued a statement but it's
a vague statement does not really mention why they removed
me.
When they reached out to call me, I said thank
you for the call but I want to know why
was I removed is have I done anything wrong?
Why did you remove me?
And they said we didn't know we'll investigate.
So I told them you have two options, either a
option A you did not investigate at all which means
that you don't take this seriously or option B you
investigated but you are hiding something.
I don't see any other in 1/3 option for you.
So I'm still waiting for the campaign to tell me
if they investigated or not and if they did what
have they found?
So, Doc, help me understand this fear among Democrats that
they may lose Arab voters because of the Democratic leaders
and membership supporting Israel's right to defend itself.
How are they going to vote for Trump if that's
their basis of resistance?
Yeah, definitely.
Voting for Trump happens on multiple levels.
So a segment of the community say you were going
to vote for Trump because we want to punish the
Democratic administration.
That genocide happened under Biden Harris administration.
And when I show them that we can unseat them.
So this is this is the group of voters in
the Arab and Muslim community.
Another group said, hey, look at look at what happened.
We we went out of our way and we pushed
and we donated and we volunteered for Biden.
And what happened after that during Trump, we did not
have any war for them.
We had less taxes.
We had better grocery prices.
So everything we had peace.
We did not have force.
So why not give Trump a chance?
So that's there is, it's very weird and multiple factors.
That's every group, they have a different factor why they
are voting for Trump.
Trump does not believe as far as I know.
And I haven't heard Republican leadership say that there's any
genocide going on other than what the point of ambition
was on October 7th.
So he doesn't agree with that point.
He, I believe, approached you through the campaign to make
an ad for him about what happened.
You refused.
Why?
Because I don't want to use what happened to me
as a weapon against the Democratic Party.
I, I, you know, I, if I, if I, if
I decide to make an ad for Trump, I would
make an ad if I believe that Trump is the
best leader.
Not because I was kicked out of other campaign.
I'm not, I'm not the one that will do like
a reaction to will be reactionary.
I, I ran for a, for a, for a reason.
I engaged in politics for a reason.
My activism is for a reason.
It's, it's beyond me.
I don't care about what happened to me.
It's that image, the optics for the Democratic Party that
there is no space.
There is no room for the Arab and the Muslim
community and the Democratic Party.
This is a Democratic Party that should be that democratic
for diversity and inclusion, Yeah.