‘Rejecting hate’: Abdul El-Sayed wins Senate seat despite racist attacks

Detroit, Michigan — Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has defeated his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, to win the United States Senate seat in Michigan, overcoming a campaign of anti-Muslim attacks spearheaded by President Donald Trump.With the victory on Tuesday, El-Sayed is set to become the first Muslim senator in US history. He will be sworn in on January 3 .Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Lula’s victory is a stress test for the Global Southlist 2 of 4South Africans vote in local elections as failing services test ANClist 3 of 4Spanish transport minister resigns after train crash killed 69 peoplelist 4 of 4FIFA’s Infantino ineligible for re-election, says former governance chiefend of listMaya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI), said Republicans had turned anti-Arab and anti-Muslim tropes into a pointed strategy against El-Sayed — one that eventually did not work.“The electorate rejecting that bigotry is tremendous, I would argue, for every little boy named Abdul, every little girl named Zainab, every little kid named Bobby, because the reality is, at the end of the day, we’re talking about whether this country supports an inclusive...