Abdul El-Sayed: “I worry that we may not earn our mandate”
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Abdul El-Sayed is one of the breakout figures of the newly elected Democratic Congress. Voters in Michigan elected the epidemiologist and former public health official to serve in the U.S. Senate and he will be the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber. Winning that election was far from easy. Republicans, including President Trump, unleashed bigoted vitriol against him and there were plenty of naysayers within the Democratic party who believed his policies were too radical to win in the swing state.
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed sat down with NPR host Leila Fadel to talk about whether old-guard Democrats and newcomers are ready to unite and tackle the frustrations that propelled the party’s sweeping victories.
You can watch El-Sayed’s interview, where he talks about Democratic party leadership and how he plans to work alongside lawmakers who spewed some of the sharpest vitriol, in the full video.
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Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed sat down with NPR host Leila Fadel to talk about whether old-guard Democrats and newcomers are ready to unite and tackle the frustrations that propelled the party’s sweeping victories.
You can watch El-Sayed’s interview, where he talks about Democratic party leadership and how he plans to work alongside lawmakers who spewed some of the sharpest vitriol, in the full video.
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