{"id":3810,"date":"2026-11-04T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:03:48","slug":"abdul-el-sayed-becomes-first-muslim-elected-to-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"Abdul El Sayed becomes first Muslim elected to US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Democrat Abdul El Sayed won Michigan\u2019s open US Senate seat on Tuesday, according to media projections, becoming the first \u200bMuslim elected to the chamber while preserving a crucial Democratic \u200cseat in the party\u2019s fight for Senate control.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>El Sayed\u2019s victory in the closely contested election marked a breakthrough for the Democratic Party\u2019s progressive wing and denied Republicans \u200ba chance to flip the seat of retiring Democratic Senator \u200bGary Peters.<\/p>\n<p>El Sayed, 42, a former public health official, focused on \u2060lowering costs for working families and reducing corporate influence in politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bHis platform included Medicare for All, a government-funded universal healthcare program \u200bchampioned by progressives in his party.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans held a 53-47 Senate majority going into Tuesday\u2019s <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/elections\/\">midterm elections<\/a>, with Democrats needing a net gain of four seats to take control.<\/p>\n<p>His \u200bopponent Mike Rogers, 63, a former congressman and FBI agent, entered \u200bthe race with strong backing from Trump and national Republicans and had sought to \u200ccast \u2060El Sayed as a radical candidate sympathetic to Islamic extremism through alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, claims that El Sayed denies and that remain unsupported by evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats said the attacks on El Sayed relied on Islamophobic \u200btropes.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers also devoted \u200bsignificant effort \u2060to courting Jewish voters who may have been uneasy with El Sayed\u2019s opposition to US military aid for Israel \u200band his characterisation of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza \u200bas genocide.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2060Rogers struggled to overcome voter concerns about the economy and Trump\u2019s low ratings.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing weeks of the race, he broke with the \u2060president \u200bon the war in Iran and the \u200bUS trade dispute with Canada, arguing that ending both was necessary to help bring down \u200bcosts for businesses and consumers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Abdul El Sayed won Michigan\u2019s open US Senate seat on Tuesday, according to media projections, becoming the first \u200bMuslim elected to the chamber while preserving a crucial Democratic \u200cseat in the party\u2019s fight for Senate control. El Sayed\u2019s victory in the closely contested election marked a breakthrough for the Democratic Party\u2019s progressive wing and denied Republicans \u200ba chance to flip the seat of retiring Democratic Senator \u200bGary Peters. El Sayed, 42, a former public health official, focused on \u2060lowering costs for working families and reducing corporate influence in politics.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}