President Joe Biden’s campaign manager travelled to Michigan on Friday, where many Arab American leaders are enraged over the administration’s Israel policy, and found a number of leaders unwilling to meet â exposing a growing rift between the White House and groups otherwise loyal to Democratic causes in a critical swing state. Julie Chavez Rodriguez, manager of Biden’s reelection campaign, led a group of advisers to the Dearborn area. But some Arab American leaders, who have for months accused the president of being too supportive of Israel in its war with Hamas, declined to sit down with them. A meeting between Rodriguez and Arab American and Muslim leaders was canceled Friday after pushback within the community, said Assad I. Turfe, a deputy Wayne County executive, who said he was tasked with coordinating the meeting.
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