El-Sayed’s allies fear Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks are reaching undecided voters

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN — “A threat to America.” “Radical ideology.” “A jihadist.”President Donald Trump and Republicans are ratcheting up their efforts to brand Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a Michigan-born Muslim whose parents emigrated from Egypt, as an “extremist” in the final days of the state’s critical Senate race.It has sparked concern among some El-Sayed supporters, who fear the deluge of attacks could break through to some undecided voters.

It has infuriated some of the president’s one-time Muslim and Arab allies in the state with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, who view the comments as Islamophobic and racist.

And it has caused some of them to lose hope in Republicans.“You turned off a lot of people.

Even people that were working to get Trump elected and get people to vote Republican here have flipped.

We did all this work for them to turn around and use us as enemies, to be able just to win an election,” said Hassan Nehme, a GOP statehouse candidate and former Michigan Republican Party vice chair who helped lead Arab American outreach for the GOP in 2024.

He is undecided in how he’ll vote in this year’s Senate race.

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