“Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice.” Abdul El-Sayed took aim at the Israel lobby and other special interests in his victory speech – after making history as the first Muslim to become a US senator. The progressive insurgent fought a campaign funded by small donations from tens of thousands of donors, while the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat him. “We are coming for your system of politics,” El-Sayed said.

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