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AOC transfers $1M to El-Sayed in final push for Michigan senate race

President Donald Trump, who will rally for Rogers in Michigan later this month, has also attacked El-Sayed for his immigrant background. During remarks at a Rose Garden luncheon yesterday, the president said El-Sayed “is a Muslim Brotherhood guy, 100 percent.” Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who was born in Michigan to Egyptian immigrant parents, has...

AOC transfers $1M to El-Sayed in final push for Michigan senate race

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed fired back at Vice President JD Vance's derogatory comments, calling him a "weasel" and rebuking his characterization of him as a "weasel who should shut his mouth." El-Sayed, a Michigan alumnus, told a crowd in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, "You could take your Buckeye and go shove it somewhere else."

Vance, a former Ohio senator and Ohio State University graduate, has been seeking to portray El-Sayed as an Islamic extremist. Trump and Republicans have accused El-Sayed of being a "Muslim radical" and a "Muslim Brotherhood Member," despite a lack of evidence to support these claims. Vance criticized El-Sayed's past critical comments about America's history and accused him of wanting to litigate ancient grievances with taxpayers' money.

El-Sayed responded, stating that Vance's remarks were intended to raise questions about his commitment to America and criticized him for lecturing him about the United States.

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