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El-Sayed, in response, pointed to the president's double standards, notably reminding people of his family's ties to Saudis and Qataris.
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, born to a family of immigrants from Egypt, trained as an epidemiologist, and earned a medical doctorate from Columbia University. If he wins the midterm election, he would become the first Muslim in the Senate. Yet despite all his accomplishments, President Donald Trump compared El-Sayed to the terrorists who carried out the attacks on 11 September 2001 in New York, Reuters reports.
Speaking at one of the rallies held as part of the Republican campaign, the White House chief said he would not allow a "jihadist" and a member of the "Muslim Brotherhood" to win. He compared El-Sayed to the terrorists of 11 September, and likened voting in the election to the efforts of the passengers of the hijacked planes at that time, who tried to fight back.
"For 25 years Michigan must stand up for its interests and fight just like Todd (Beamer — one of the passengers — ed.) did, so we don't let a jihadist burst into the Capitol," Trump said, adding that if El-Sayed does win, he will become the first senator who will have to go through a metal detector before entering the Senate.
The Democrat responded to Trump — reminding him of the double standards.
"I understand that the President of the United States takes my name as a personal insult," El-Sayed noted. "He doesn't seem so bothered when people with the same name are Saudis who fund his son-in-law's investment fund, and he doesn't seem so bothered when it's Qataris who give him a private jet worth 400 million dollars."
Former Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly writes that Trump could lose absolute power after the midterms: if projections for the Senate are 50 on 50, then the situation in the House of Representatives could play into the Democrats' hands, as it did in 2018. In his view, today the most likely — at 60% — is the traditional scenario, which foresees a victory for the "blue" in one chamber. In second place — 25% — is the confrontational scenario, which would occur if the Democrats take revenge and completely "seize" Congress from the Republicans. Although Chaly does not rule out the possibility that the "blue" may not be fully prepared for such an opportunity. More on this in the article "Where Trump's America Is Headed: Three Midterm Scenarios in the U.S.".
But whatever their results, Trump will still remain president, stresses former ambassador and head of the NGO "Center for New Solutions" Kostyantyn Yeliseyev. In the piece "Diplomacy Without the Right to Emotions: Why Ukraine Cannot Afford to Lose America" he warned that Kyiv must be restrained in relations with Washington now, without waiting for the results of the November vote, because keeping the U.S. as a strategic partner is not a matter of political sympathy but of Ukraine's national security and the preservation of the lives of its citizens.
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