Arab and Muslim voters who boycotted Kamala Harris' failed presidential campaign are pointing to one reason for her downfall: arrogance.

While Donald Trump came to their communities, Kamala Harris took many Arab voters for granted and instead cozied up to Liz Cheney, whose last name is synonymous with war in the Middle East.

Harris' crucial mistake

Harris' embrace of Cheney was just one mistake from a campaign that has widely been seen as an expensive Hollywood production.

While Harris touted endorsements from celebrities, Trump went directly to communities like Dearborn, Michigan, an Arab-majority city that Joe Biden carried by nearly 40 points in 2020.

Trump pledged to restore peace to the Middle East in his second term, while Harris repeatedly dodged questions about the war in Gaza and snubbed constituents who want the conflict to end.

In the end, Trump won Dearborn by six points. Layla Elabed, the co-founder of the pro-Palestine Uncommitted movement and sister of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mi., said she isn't happy that Trump won the election, but she isn't surprised, either.

“There’s been many ways in which Harris chose the path of Liz Cheney and the donor class on a range of issues, and abandoning working families in places like Dearborn, who make up the people Democrats claim to be fighting for,” Elabed said.

Muslims cautiously embrace Trump

Harris had hoped to win over Trump-skeptical Republicans by embracing Cheney, who served on the January 6th committee and frequently denounced Trump as a would-be dictator.

But the narrative of Trump as a "threat to democracy" fell flat, as Trump instead built a broad, popular coalition of Americans frustrated with the status quo.

Trump targeted Harris' alliance with Cheney, the daughter of a once powerful Republican family famous for its support of foreign wars.

“Kamala is campaigning with Muslim-hating warmonger, Liz Cheney, who wants to invade practically every Muslim country on the planet. And let me tell you the Muslims of our country, they see it, and they know it,” Trump said at a rally in October.

While many Muslims are skeptical Trump will end the war in Gaza, he won goodwill by at least showing up.

Bryarr Misner, who ran the Abandon Harris campaign in Pittsburgh, said he voted for Trump even though he doesn't fully trust him.

“President Trump, he continuously came and he was in the community. While I don’t believe that he’s going to enact policies that will benefit the community, he at least showed that he was willing to show up for the community,” Misner said.