Mayor of only Muslim-run US city endorses Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Ghalib told The Detroit News last week that the pair had discussed the concerns of Arab and Muslim Americans and that Trump had requested his endorsement.
60% : In a poll released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in August, just 12 percent of Muslim voters in Michigan expressed support for Harris, with 18 percent backing Trump and 40 percent supporting the Green Party's Jill Stein.
59% : Trump won Michigan in the 2016 election against Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton, becoming the first Republican to prevail in the state since George HW Bush in 1988.
55% : In the most recent average of polls compiled by The New York Times, Harris leads Trump in Michigan by 50 percent to 47 percent.
38% : Ghalib, who immigrated to the US from Yemen when he was 17, made the announcement a little less than a week after meeting Trump before a town hall in the Michigan city of Flint.
38% : Michigan is one of seven key swing states expected to decide the outcome of November's contest between Trump and his Democratic Party rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
36% : Opinion polls suggest a tight race between Trump and Harris both nationally and in battlegrounds such as Michigan.
25% : President Joe Biden flipped the state back to the Democrats in 2020, beating Trump by a margin of about 150,000 votes.

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