BREAKING: Michiganders send first Muslim to Senate with Abdul El-Sayed

El-Sayed had been the subject of controversy over his family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization but maintained that his first loyalty as a senator would be to the people of Michigan. He also signed a letter in 2012 supporting the terrorist-designated group in Egypt and took donations from other signers of that letter.

“I hope what it would say is that America is big enough,” he said, according to the Washington Post. “My argument has always been that America is a big place with big ideas.”

Although El-Sayed was favored to win based on preliminary polls, Republicans had hoped a last-minute endorsement on Sunday from El-Sayed’s Democrat primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, might offer Rogers a fighting chance in the race to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Gary Peters.

His ascendance paves the way for Democrats’ progressive revolution as the party lurches farther to the left, leaving its few remaining moderates adrift.

His election to the Senate also raises alarms for some Jewish voters as a new wave of antisemitism is on the rise, with El-Sayed becoming one of its most powerful proponents. He had routinely campaigned with and refused to disavow firebrand socialist Hasan Piker.

Stevens broke rank with Democrats after condemning a campaign advertisement for El-Sayed that she argued was antisemitic, effectively blaming Jews for America’s economic woes.

However, El-Sayed insisted in the final days of the campaign that he had strong Jewish support.

The New York Times published a list of roughly 1,000 Jewish Michiganders who had expressed their support for the Democrat, although it was promptly called into question after a review pointed to dubious names, including “Jack Mehoff.”