November 15th, 20240• Harris’ losses surpass 20,000 Votes in the three cities compared to Biden’s 2020 results
• Trump gains around 6,000 additional votes in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and 2,000 in Hamtramck to what he received in 2020.
Dearborn
For the first time since 2000, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the cities of...
November 9th, 20240Alongside the presidential race, elections for all 13 of Michigan’s U.S. Congressional Districts were held Tuesday. The results favored the Republican Party, which increased its share of Michigan seats in the House of Representatives to seven members after Republican candidate Tom Barrett in District 7 (Lansing area) defeated his...
August 9th, 20240The results of the primary elections held on Tuesday have set the stage for the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, with both Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and former Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers advancing after defeating their opponents in the primaries.
Slotkin, a resident of Holly, decisively won the Democratic primary race...
June 7th, 20240Americans are more dissatisfied with their government than the citizens of any other major democracy, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. And we seem to be growing more skeptical of government every year.
In 1964, when I was first elected to Congress, nearly 80 percent of Americans trusted government to do the right thing...
July 23rd, 20210DETROIT — Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who had 44 years of law enforcement experience, has announced his campaign for governor.
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight Program on Wednesday, Craig said, “I’ve got to tell you, I’m running.”
That same day Craig officially launched an...
February 17th, 20210Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former President Trump, many analysts have rashly painted a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the bleak trajectory of the previous Republican administration. This naivety is particularly pronounced in the current spin on the Palestinian-Israeli discourse, which is promoting,...
October 10th, 20200After viewing the first U.S. presidential debate on Sept. 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America’s ruling elites.
Following the debate between President Trump and the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, most analyses focused mainly on the personal insults and name-calling,...
July 19th, 20200While the U.S. administration of President Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional Democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of “strategic ambiguity” that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace.
Trump’s policies on Israel and...
January 31st, 20190WASHINGTON, DC - In a rebuke of President Trump, the Republican-led U.S. Senate advanced largely symbolic legislation on Thursday opposing plans for any abrupt withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
The Senate voted 68-23 in favor of a non-binding amendment, drafted by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying it...
October 29th, 20180DETROIT— According to a new poll commissioned by the Detroit Free Press and its media partners, Democratic leads over Republicans in the Michigan races for governor and secretary of state have shrunk to 5 and 4 points respectively, while the attorney general's race is heating up as well.
Although in the U.S. Senate race Democratic...
September 1st, 20180If you take a dim view of our political parties, you’re in sterling company. So did George Washington.
In his famous farewell address, he warned us against “the baneful effects of the spirit of party.” A political party, he wrote, “agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of...
April 27th, 20180State Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R-Canton), a Republican candidate for governor, is spreading his hateful rhetoric to hide his lack of leadership and the fact that his campaign is bankrupt in both ideas and dollars.
Earlier this month the trailing Republican gubernatorial candidate, who is known for his racist and White Supremacist ideas,...
April 27th, 20180LANSING – Republican gubernatorial candidate Patrick Colbeck outraged both Democrats and fellow Republicans when he claimed that one of his Democratic rivals, Abdul El-Sayed, is part of an organized plot to take over American political leadership positions and start a “civilization jihad.”
Colbeck, currently a state senator from...
April 6th, 20180MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A half century after the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leaders say they are fearful President Trump could reverse progress made on civil rights in the United States since King’s death.
The racism that King’s leadership helped subdue has returned, said E. Lynn Brown, a former associate...
March 16th, 20180By Farah Harb
The Arab American News
The following is the continued list of Metro Detroit candidates running for congressional seats in the Aug. 7 and Nov. 6 elections.
10th DISTRICT
Paul Mitchell (Republican incumbent)
Mitchell of Dryden, replaced former U.S. Rep. Candice Miller in 2016 and has since created a system of...
March 9th, 20180DETROIT — Thousands of people attended the sanctuary of Detroit's Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church on March 3 to hear from four of the gubernatorial candidates. According to Miunited.org, Democrats Bill Cobbs, Abdul El-Sayed and Gretchen Whitmer were joined by Republican Patrick Colbeck in discussions about criminal justice reform,...
February 16th, 20180Bringing back jobs, improving the economy, education, immigration and infrastructure are some of the most prominent issues on Michigan voters' minds this upcoming election season.
The pool of Democratic gubernatorial candidates is distinctly diverse – a Muslim Arab American, an Indian American, an African American and a...
September 11th, 20170Washington — Republican Rep. Dave Trott (R-Birmingham) said Monday he will retire from Congress at the end of his second term and return to the private sector.
“Our country’s Founding Fathers envisioned a government where citizens leave private life, serve for a brief time, and then return home to their communities," Trott said...
May 5th, 20170WASHINGTON — All nine Republican U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, in favor of the American Health Care Act, or "Trumpcare."
The representatives are: Jack Bergman (R-Watersmeet), Jack Bergman (R-Zeeland), Justin Amash (R-Cascade Township), John Moolenaar...
