# Trump praises Haley Stevens’s defection and hurls Islamophobic insults at El-Sayed

https://mins.news/en/video/124812

- Guardian News, 2026-11-02 01:04 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS3iq1eQvJI

> At an Iowa rally, Trump praised congresswoman Haley Stevens for leaving the Democrats to support Mike Rogers’s Senate campaign, and invited her to join the Republican party. He then called Muslim Democrat Abdul El-Sayed a “jihadist,” continuing his Islamophobic attacks on the progressive Senate nominee.

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