Trump misnames Muslim senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ‘Mohammed’

US President Donald Trump misnamed Muslim candidate for the US Senate Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday, calling him Mohammed and baselessly accusing him of being a “Terrorist Sympathiser”.

El-Sayed, an Arab American running for a Michigan senate seat that could decide which party wins the US upper chamber in knife-edge midterm polls next month, fired back, saying “he knows my name”.

Left-wing insurgent candidate El-Sayed accused Trump of “using my name and faith to distract us from the suffering his...