The Michigan Democratic US Senate Primary win send media back to to Mamdani win as New York Mayor…..
Muslims comprise about 1.3% of the entire US population….
BUT?
They ARE concentrated in the major US Cities INCLUDING NYC, Dearborn , Mich, Chicago , Ill and Dallas, LA and Philly…..
Democrats NEED their votes…..
Most Republicans seem afraid of ‘ them’…. like their fears of other Americans ‘of color’….
And El-Sayed win in Michigan COULD help Democrats assemble enough US Senate wins to pull out a Majority come next year , that would add to the expected US House grab…
AND?
Republicans have every right to be scared of a Democratic Congress vs a ‘off the hook’ Trump and JD Vance or Rubio trying to succeed Trump as President….
“President Donald Trump panned Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a social media post, calling the progressive Democrat a ‘Communist, who is not liked in Detroit,’ while alleging without evidence rampant voter fraud in the state,” Politico reports.
Wrote Trump on Truth Social: “Wayne County (Detroit) in Michigan is one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States, if not the World. It is strictly Third World! Miracles happen in Wayne County, including more votes being cast than there are voters, by a lot.”
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“Muslim American voters celebrated Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary on Wednesday, declaring they had found a place in American politics even amid a rise in fiercely anti-Muslim political rhetoric, especially in the South,” the New York Times reports.
“Dr. El-Sayed’s win against a centrist congresswoman funded by pro-Israel groups and backed by the party establishment was especially sweet in Eastern Michigan, where Arab and Muslim Americans have long lived.”
image…NBC News
El-Sayed gets Democratic support….
Democrats are quickly coalescing around Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed following his narrow Tuesday primary win.
Several lawmakers who previously backed his competitor Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) said it was time to change course and support the party nominee wholeheartedly….
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