Detroit, Michigan – Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has dismissed United States President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks against him, saying that they are an attempt to move the attention away from the president’s own record. At a news conference in Detroit on Monday, El-Sayed said Trump is trying to distract from issues that matter to Americans – including petrol prices and the war on Iran – by accusing the Democratic candidate of being a “jihadist”. El-Sayed called the attacks “deflections and deceptions based on no evidence”.
They’re not talking about you,” the Democratic candidate said of Republicans. They’re not talking about any of the things that the government is actually supposed to solve. Because Donald Trump has created those problems.” At a rally in Michigan on Sunday, Trump unleashed repeated baseless claims against El-Sayed, accusing the Democrat of wanting to impose “Sharia law” on the country.
The progressive Democrat and former public health official is locked in a close race with former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, a contest that could decide the Senate majority for the next two years. Rogers has made unfounded allegations linking El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah a central point of his campaign. On Monday, El-Sayed said most Americans reject such attacks.
You see them; they’re very loud, and they bark,” El-Sayed said. And the story of America is those who believe in big America, overcoming the deception, the distraction, the sad attempts of the small-minded to make us small.” He added that “Michiganders are a lot bigger than that”. El-Sayed also addressed Trump’s statements mocking his name and misrepresenting it as “Mohamed”.
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