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Will Arab-American voters rally around Clinton?

Arab-Americans tend to vote Democratic in presidential elections, but will the community coalesce around Hillary Clinton despite the attraction of Bernie Sanders’ views on the Middle East?

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a speech during a campaign stop in Lynwood, California, United States, June 6, 2016.   REUTERS/Mike Blake  - RTSGAC9
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a speech during a campaign stop in Lynwood, California, June 6, 2016. — REUTERS/Mike Blake

Like many of their compatriots, Arab-Americans are confronting their presidential election choices this year with considerable ambivalence.

Republicans have been repelled by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s vow to temporarily ban all Muslim immigration and his racist remarks about other ethnic minorities.

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