Why are Arab Americans choosing Trump?

When Arab Americans for Trump sent out a notice on Friday about the location of the movement's watch party on election night in Dearborn, Michigan, which is known as the Arab capital of America, it was slated for the popular Yemeni-American coffee house, Haraz - a place that is also steps away from the Arab-American National Museum. 

Less than 24 hours later, AAFT, as the group refers to itself, changed the location of the Tuesday night event. 

Hamzah Nasser, who owns Haraz, told Middle East Eye that he had been planning to install big screens on election night, in a bid to bring people in his community together. 

So when the Trump campaign reached out, Nasser agreed to host. 

But when the request came to put up Trump flags and banners outside his business, he decided to withdraw his participation, despite being a Trump voter himself. 

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