MARY BRUCE: The president later privately apologized to Muslim American advocates for those remarks, but Dearborn's Muslim and Arab American mayor, Abdullah Hamoud, says Biden's response to this crisis has lacked empathy.
What do you make of how the president is handling this crisis?
ABDULLAH HAMOUD: I think, you know, the unfortunate reality, there's been a callousness. This is a president I supported because he spoke about humanity, that he was a president for all people, and it's certainly not the president that I see in the White House today.
BRUCE: The president has been ramping up the pressure on Israel to do more to protect civilians, and address the humanitarian crisis, and he's tweaking his tone. Biden recently writing in an op-ed, every innocent Palestinian life lost is a tragedy that rips apart families and communities, but for advocates like Lexi who supported Biden in the past, it's too little, too late.
Is there anything the president could do at this point that would regain your support?
LEXI ZEIDAN: Nothing. We understand that no vote to a Democratic candidate is going to be a vote to a Republican candidate, and we are- we are willing to take that risk.
BRUCE: She says it's worth it to send a strong message to Democrats.
ZEIDAN: Maybe Trump will win. Maybe Trump will get in office, and that's to open the eyes and the ears of the rest of the public, to say, listen. It's going to be short-term pain for these next four years, but Democrats will not win Michigan until Democrats are ready to back Palestine.