El-Sayed Challenges Vance Over 2022 Sharia Remarks as Senate Race Tightens in Michigan
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Updated · HuffPost · Aug 23
El-Sayed Challenges Vance Over 2022 Sharia Remarks as Senate Race Tightens in Michigan
3 articles · Updated · HuffPost · Aug 23
Summary
Abdul El-Sayed said JD Vance was implying some people are “more American than others,” challenging him over remarks tied to the Democrat’s Muslim identity.
Vance, speaking Friday at an Ohio steel plant, cited El-Sayed’s 2022 comments on an Oklahoma anti-Sharia measure and claimed he had said criticism of Sharia law was white supremacist.
El-Sayed said the vice president was distorting his words and pointed to Vance’s Indian-born parents-in-law, asking how he could suggest immigrants’ families are less American.
The clash lands as El-Sayed holds a slim lead over Republican Mike Rogers in a recent AARP poll and after his primary win drew a rise in anti-Muslim posts from conservatives, according to a Washington Post analysis.
El-Sayed cast the attack as a political distraction from rising costs and other kitchen-table issues ahead of November’s Michigan Senate election.