Amer Ghalib, a city politician in the swing state of Michigan, says that despite all the differences of opinion, the Republicans are the “right choice.”

The mayor of the only city in the United States with an all-Muslim government has endorsed former President Donald Trump for the November presidential election.

Amer Ghalib, mayor of Hamtramck in the crucial swing state of Michigan, said on Sunday that despite some differences of opinion, the Republican candidate was a “man of principles” and “the right choice.”

“President Trump and I may not agree on everything, but I know he is a man of principle,” Ghalib said in a post on Facebook.

“While things look good, he may or may not win the election and become the 47th President of the United States, I believe he is the right choice for this critical time. I will not regret my decision, whatever the outcome, and I am prepared to accept the consequences.”

“Now the caravan can begin its journey,” added Ghalib. “This is just the starting point.”

Shortly after the announcement, Trump reposted Ghalib’s support on his Truth Social platform.

Hamtramck, which has a population of about 28,000, made headlines in 2021 when it became the first U.S. city to elect an all-Muslim city council and mayor.

Ghalib, who immigrated to the United States from Yemen at the age of 17, offered his support to Trump at a town hall meeting in the city of Flint, Michigan, less than a week after meeting the Republican candidate.

Ghalib told the Detroit News last week that the two had discussed the concerns of Arab and Muslim Americans and that Trump had asked for his support.

Michigan is one of seven key swing states expected to decide the outcome of the November election between Trump and his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Opinion polls point to a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Harris both nationally and in battleground states like Michigan.

The latest average of polls compiled by the New York Times has Harris at 50 percent in Michigan, ahead of Trump at 47 percent.

Trump won Michigan in the 2016 election against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, becoming the first Republican to win the state since George HW Bush in 1988.

President Joe Biden was able to return the state to the Democrats in 2020, defeating Trump by a margin of about 150,000 votes.

Anger among Muslim Americans over the Biden administration’s support of Israel’s war on Gaza is worrying Democrats as they face razor-thin primaries in swing states.

In a poll released in August by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, only 12 percent of Muslim voters in Michigan supported Harris, 18 percent supported Trump and 40 percent supported Jill Stein of the Green Party.