Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed mocked President Donald Trump and his opponent in a combative victory speech Tuesday night in Michigan.
El-Sayed, who defeated Republican Mike Rogers, said his opponents “went all-in on one of the ugliest campaigns we’ve seen in our lifetimes.”
“They might have been pointing at my name and my faith, but we all know my name and my faith aren’t the reason you can’t afford your gas or afford your groceries,” El-Sayed said. He said Trump’s comments about him became “uglier and coarser” and that “to all the parents who struggle to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray,
