‘It’s very personal’: could Abdullah Hammoud, a Michigan mayor, hold the key to the 2024 elections?

Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, stands at the head of a community that registered unprecedented numbers of uncommitted' votes in the primary

Since the war in Gaza erupted six months ago, Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, has contended with death threats, toxic media coverage of his city and family members overseas driven from their homes by Israeli airstrikes.

Today, he stands at the head of a community that could hold the key to the 2024 presidential election. Two months after the state primary, which saw unprecedented numbers of Michiganders casting a protest vote as a warning to Joe Biden, Hammoud doesn't seem to think Biden got the message.