At a Michigan election night rally, Abdul El-Sayed, whom the Guardian's headline calls the first Muslim US Senator, speaks to parents who struggled to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray. "Let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost," he says, then tells "JD Habibi" there is a delicious irony in Vance being constitutionally obligated to swear him in in January.
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- rally - Michigan US Senate election night victory speech
- Original footage
- Guardian News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 32 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 147 on Instagram
Read the transcript
kids who watched this last month to all the parents who struggled to explain why the president openly mock someone for their name or how they pray. Let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost JD Habibi there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.