Dearborn Heights is a blue suburb of Detroit whose mayor is an Arab American named Bill Bazzi. Today, Politico published an interview in which Bazzi explained why he decided to endorse Donald Trump for president.
This is still considered a really blue section of Michigan, so your endorsement of Trump raised lots of eyebrows. Talk me through the process of that decision.
Both my parents were auto workers. It was always taught: You’ve got to work hard. My parents were socially conservative. But my parents always voted with Democrats. They thought, “Democrats are gonna take care of people like us.” All our life, we grew up thinking that.
With my experience with the military, spending time overseas, deployed to different countries that I served in and visited, getting to know leaders of different countries … I wasn’t making a decision on the fly. In…
