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hile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed. He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. “This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make...

For John Akouri, whose father immigrated from Tripoli, Lebanon, in 1955, there is only one choice for president in November’s election: Donald Trump... The former president’s supporters are now looking for more voters like Akouri... What they are finding is a growing receptiveness, particularly with certain Arab Americans who find appeal in Republicans’ conservatism on social issues... Akouri feels that in some ways, Arab Americans have been left out of politics under Biden and his vice-president, Kamala Harris... This year, Michigan Republicans have gone to extra effort to connect with the Arab American community in the state. For instance, during...