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Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan Senate race and tells Donald Trump: "call me Senator"

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Now playing on All Clips Abdul El-Sayed wins the Michigan Senate race and tells Donald Trump: "call me Senator" Abdul El-Sayed104 plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

At his election night speech, Abdul El-Sayed tells Trump that since he "struggled with my name," he can call him Senator after JD swears him in January. He warns the super PACs and special interests that "we are coming for your system of politics," and thanks AIPAC, which he says spent $42 million against him, "for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice."

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Who
Abdul El-Sayed
Where
rally - election night, Michigan Democrats victory event
Original footage
Global News · watch the full video from this moment
Length
35 seconds, unedited within the cut
Plays
104 on Instagram
Read the transcript

Donald, look, I know you struggled with my name. So after JD swears me in January, you could just go on and call me Senator. To the super PACs and special interests who tried to beat us, we are coming for your system of politics. To APAC who spent $42 million against us, thank you for giving me the opportunity to beat you twice. I don't want to say something here.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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