LC's sharp irony to Trump: My name and my religion don't raise the price of your gas! Abdul al-Sayed, US Senate candidate: My name and my religion don't raise the price of your gas. They are not the reason you can't afford groceries or you can't go to the doctor. It is their [Trump administration] policies that have created such conditions. It is their illegal, unjustified, immoral and unnecessary war against Iran that has raised the price of our gasoline and food.