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PoliticsJD Vance escalates attacks on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

Vice-president JD Vance tried to link Abdul El-Sayed to protests in Paris and claimed he would lead rioters in “burning down” Detroit. El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, has faced a barrage of Islamophobic rhetoric, and Donald Trump has called him a “jihadist.”

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JD Vance escalates attacks on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
JD Vance escalates attacks on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-SayedPolitics