“Donald, I know you struggled with my name. So after JD swears me in … call me senator,” El-Sayed said.

Abdul El-Sayed walloped his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, in Michigan on Tuesday, marking a massive triumph over the strategy of flat-out Islamophobic bigotry that Donald Trump, the GOP, and even many liberals embraced in the months of fierce campaigning against the progressive pro-Palestine senator-elect. “They went all in on one of the ugliest campaigns we’ve seen in our lifetimes,”…

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