Did Trump's Pakistan pivot cost him support in the US midterms?

Several Pakistani Americans who helped Donald Trump return to the White House in 2024 have told Middle East Eye that the diaspora community turned against him in last week's midterm elections after the US president "abandoned" his promise to secure the release of Pakistan's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

They said their disillusionment deepened as Trump cultivated a close relationship with Pakistan's powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, whom he has repeatedly called his "favourite field marshal".

While the US does not release official demographic breakdowns of voting patterns, an estimated 680,000 people of Pakistani origin lived in the country in 2023, according to the Pew Research Center.