As the election season unfolds, many are wondering why Arab American citizens are moving towards voting for Trump. The answer lies in the fact that they are already Trump supporters and enthusiastic ones at that. However, a significant portion of these potential voters is not registered to vote and often claim they don’t know where or how to register.
Recognizing this gap in Republican outreach to register Middle Eastern Americans, Michelle Moons Dawi and her husband started the Conservative American Middle Eastern PAC (CAM PAC) in October 2024. Since its inception, their efforts have been successful with people even willing to wait in line just to get registered and vote for Trump.
One such instance is a Christian Iraqi American man named Bashar who approached the CAM PAC registration table outside of a Michigan grocery store last Wednesday. He had been approached three times by Democrats trying to register him to vote for Kamala Harris, but he refused until CAM PAC members spoke with him and registered him as a Republican. Now, Bashar will be voting happily for Donald Trump.
Another example is an 85-year-old woman who, along with her sister, approached the CAM PAC table and registered to vote after her children refused to help her vote for Trump. Both women are now registered to vote in this election for Trump.
A new voter who registered at one of their tables said he is Muslim and is voting for Trump because he knows that Trump will fix the country. Another 102-year-old woman’s dying wish was for Trump to win the 2024 presidential election; she and her friend, who they also registered, pray for Trump every day.
Many of these new voters had no idea how or where to vote. CAM PAC has registered about 100 people after campaigning in just two locations for only two days alone. They are now expanding their registration drive beyond the Middle Eastern community to include Albanian and Macedonian Americans who are eager for information on how and where to vote before the state’s registration deadline.
Conservative grassroots activists like Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin and others have worked alongside CAM PAC members to ensure that voters get registered, and every vote counts. Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk has also sounded the alarm on his show that Republicans should leave no votes on the table, pushing everyone to register before the deadline expires.
In Michigan, online registration ends on October 21, while mail-in registrations must be postmarked by October 21. After these deadlines, Michiganders can still get registered, but it requires a trek down to their local election office, which is far less likely to happen if they haven’t already accessed the simple online or mail-in systems.
Michelle Moons Dawi is a former Breitbart White House correspondent and former Trump administration official. She launched CAM PAC with her husband after hearing from Trump-supporting Middle Eastern Americans who were still not registered to vote.