Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said former President Donald Trump must “stay on message” in order to win the state of Michigan in the November general election.
In the 2020 general election, incumbent President Joe Biden defeated Trump in Michigan by 2.78 percent.
“I think former President Trump needs to stay on message…Don’t get distracted by other things in life that are thrown at you. How he gets through each day, I don’t know as a human being with everything being thrown at him,” Fritze said on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Regarding Biden’s momentum in Michigan, Fritze noted that 100,000 voters in the state voted “uncommitted” in the primary election, explaining how a pro-Palestine group called Listen to Michigan was behind the push to urge Democrat voters to vote against Biden due to his pro-Israel stance.
“During the presidential primary on February 27th, there was a group called Listen to Michigan which was created by representative Rashida Tlaib, a representative from Michigan, of course, and Palestinian. She has the Palestinian flag outside her office in Washington. Her sister started this group, Listen to Michigan, and during the presidential primary, the Arab American Muslims hoped to get about 10,000 people to vote uncommitted rather than vote for Joe Biden in the democratic presidential primary. On that Tuesday in Michigan, more than a 100,000 Michigan voters selected uncommitted. Their goal was to send a message to President Joe Biden, that ‘We’re watching and we’re listening, and if you don’t change course on your policy on Israel, we could be your ticket in or keep you from the office.’ So they have demonstrated what they’re willing to do,” Fritze explained.
Fritze said Dearborn, Michigan is home to the largest population of Arab American Muslims in the country, which, earlier this week, saw a crowd chanting ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’ during an Al Quds Day rally.
“The Dearborn area in Michigan, which is an outlying Detroit suburb, has the largest population of Arab American Muslims in the country. In fact, driving through the area, you wouldn’t know you were in America from storefront signs, etc. So on Friday, on the day that is the last day of Ramadan called Al Quds Day – the last day of Ramadan for the Arabs to express support for Palestine and oppose Israel – the chants were ‘Death to America’,” Fritze explained.
“Where else in the world could you stand on the soil of that country and say death to that country and have nothing happen to you? The irony is not lost in that,” Fritze added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
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