Senator-elect El-Sayed Says US Tax Dollars Shouldn't Fund Israel's "People's War" Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Senate seat, becoming the first Muslim in the upper chamber of Congress. He defeated AIPAC-backed Hayley Stevens despite $42 million spent against him, saying: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice. Al-Sayed declared US taxes to fund domestic needs, not "apartheid or genocidal war," and defended Palestinian rights as "love, not hate. "He mocked the Islamophobic smears of Trump and Vance, noting that Vance must be sworn in in January. Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama supported him.

Senator-elect El-Sayed Says US Tax Dollars Shouldn't Fund Israel's "People's War" Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Senate seat, becoming the first Muslim in the upper chamber of Congress. He defeated AIPAC-backed Hayley Stevens despite $42 million spent against him, saying: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice. Al-Sayed declared US taxes to fund domestic needs, not "apartheid or genocidal war," and defended Palestinian rights as "love, not hate. "He mocked the Islamophobic smears of Trump and Vance, noting that Vance must be sworn in in January. Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama supported him.