Ground Game: Arab American voters, abortion opponents, and AI implications

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By Meg Kinnard

June 17, 2024 08:37:36 AM

By Meg Kinnard

June 17, 2024 08:37:36 AM

  

One of Donald Trump’s emissaries to Arab Americans is a Lebanese-born businessman who moved to Texas as a teenager, speaks Arabic, English and French – and recently joined the Trump family when his son married the former president’s younger daughter.

Reeling from a string of defeats, anti-abortion groups and their Republican allies in state governments are using an array of strategies to counter proposed ballot initiatives intended to protect reproductive rights or prevent voters from having a say in the fall elections.

And generative artificial intelligence – which can do everything from streamlining mundane campaign tasks to creating fake images, video or audio – already has been deployed in some national races across the country and is spreading in elections across the globe. But AI could have the greatest impact on races down the ballot.

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THE HEADLINES

Tiffany Trump, Michael Boulos and Lara Trump return from a break at Manhattan Criminal Court, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

Trump courting Arab American voters with family assist

Massad Boulos has taken on the challenge of trying to convince a politically influential community angry at President Joe Biden that Trump is a better option. Biden faced a significant protest vote during February’s Michigan primary in areas with