'What did you think he was going to do?' Blowback builds against Muslims who backed Trump

President Donald Trump became the first Republican in more than two decades to win the city of Dearborn, Michigan, which has the largest Muslim population of any city in the United States.

The biggest reason for this was anger within the Muslim community over the Biden administration's backing of Israel's war in Gaza, which so far has cost the lives of more than 50,000 Palestinians.

But after Trump this week proposed a plan many have said is considered ethnically cleansing Gaza and having the United States take over the region, there has been growing criticism from within the Muslim community of people who not only refused to back Vice President Kamala Harris but who took the added step of voting affirmatively for Trump.

NPR reports that some Muslims in Dearborn have been second-guessing the decision by many voters in the city to support the president while living in a state in which Harris lost to Trump by a little more than 80,000 votes.

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"It's like, what did you think? What did you think he was going to do?" Sam Ali, a Dearborn-based business consultant who didn't vote for Trump or Harris, told NPR. "What did you think he was going to say? And now people have to live with the consequences of their decision to to vote for him."

Abbas Alawieh, a Democratic strategist who organized the "uncommitted" campaign aimed at pressuring Biden and Harris to cut off arms sales to Israel, tells NPR that he ultimately did vote for Harris.

At the same time, Alawieh tells NPR that Trump succeeded in winning the city because he visited Dearborn during the campaign and "lied to a whole bunch of folks saying that he would be a pro-peace president."