Trump says Abdul el Sayed is ‘full of s***’
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Trump's got a colorful way of saying things, and "full of s***" is not exactly Reagan-esque rhetoric. But strip away the delivery and look at what he's actually reacting to: Michigan Democrats just nominated a Senate candidate who has spent years dodging basic questions about Israel and Hamas, and who built his political brand partly on being the anti-establishment alternative in a state with the country's largest concentration of Arab American voters. That's not a smear.
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President Donald Trump devoted a healthy portion of his Wednesday speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, to attacking newly minted Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed. El Sayed emerged victorious Wednesday morning over Rep.
Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the Democratic primary. Trump has previously claimed that el Sayed “hates Jews,” and he repeated that line of attack Wednesday […]
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Trump's got a colorful way of saying things, and "full of s***" is not exactly Reagan-esque rhetoric. But strip away the delivery and look at what he's actually reacting to: Michigan Democrats just nominated a Senate candidate who has spent years dodging basic questions about Israel and Hamas, and who built his political brand partly on being the anti-establishment alternative in a state with the country's largest concentration of Arab American voters. That's not a smear. That's the resume.
El Sayed beating Haley Stevens, a sitting congresswoman with actual legislative experience, tells you something about where the energy in the Michigan Democratic base is right now. It's not toward the center. Trump is going to hammer that contrast every single day until November, and frankly, Democrats handed him the material themselves.
The "hates Jews" line is Trump being Trump, blunt to the point of reckless. He doesn't do nuance, and sometimes that costs him credibility on legitimate points. But Democrats shouldn't be shocked that a candidate with el Sayed's record on Israel is going to get dragged through the mud in a general election, especially in a state Trump needs to hold. If the party wanted a nominee who couldn't be painted this way, they had a more conventional option sitting right there and passed on her.
Whether el Sayed can win a statewide race in Michigan with this kind of scrutiny already baked in before Labor Day is a real question Democrats should be asking themselves, not just complaining about how rude the President's language was.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.