Trump Reshares Kid Rock Clip Attacking Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed
Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters Donald Trump has launched an attack on Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed by resharing inflammatory “civil war” rhetoric from Kid Rock.
In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the 80-year-old president shared a clip from an interview the MAGA singer gave to Fox News’ Lara Trump, in which he suggested that El-Sayed, 41, who could become the first Muslim elected to the U.S.
Senate, was a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.” “I was born in Dearborn, Michigan, so was my father, raised there.
My grandfather raised him there.
I don’t know if people understand how it got to be one of the biggest Arab populations outside of the Middle East in the world,” Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, told Fox News.
“I call it more of a religious ideology.
I know there’s extremists and there’s milder versions of it.
I don’t want to see my grandkids one day have to fight some civil war over religious ideology,” he added.
“This is scary.” Trump reshared the clip a second time on Sunday night after it was posted by a pro-Trump X account with more than 63,000 followers.
“He’s absolutely right on both.
Abdul is a snake looking to bring Sharia law to America,” the account baselessly claimed.
Trump and multiple other MAGA figures are resorting to Islamophobic attacks against El-Sayed as multiple polls show him leading Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race ahead of the Nov.
3 midterm elections.
On Sunday, an Insider Advantage survey of 1,200 likely voters showed El-Sayed ahead by 2 percentage points (48 percent to 46 percent).
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