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Trump misnames Muslim senate candidate ‘Mohammed’

Agence France-Presse · South China Morning Post
Published 9 Oct 2026, 4:08 am·50 min ago·1 min read
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US President Donald Trump misnamed Muslim candidate for the US Senate Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday, calling him Mohammed and baselessly accusing him of being a “Terrorist Sympathiser”. El-Sayed, an Arab American running for a Michigan senate seat that could decide which party wins the US upper chamber in knife-edge midterm polls next month, fired back, saying “he knows my name”. Left-wing insurgent candidate El-Sayed accused Trump of “using my name and faith to distract us from the suffering his...

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