Abdul El-Sayed Is Ready To Wear Ted Cruz's ‘Jihadist Leprechaun’ Insult With Pride

HuffPost · Kelby Vera · 2026-11-06 00:10 UTC

The senator-elect told “The View” that Republicans resorted to petty insults because they had nothing substantial to say to voters themselves.

Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) couldn’t help but laugh at one Republican’s ridiculous Islamophobic insult while discussing the venom that followed his campaign during a Thursday visit to “The View.”

Panelist Sunny Hostin told El-Sayed that while she knows politics aren’t pretty, she was still staggered by how “ugly” things got during his race against Republican Mike Rogers, whom El-Sayed defeated by seven points in Tuesday’s midterm election.

Hostin referenced when Vice President JD Vance said there was something “very, very evil” about El-Sayed and how Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the nation’s soon-to-be first Muslim senator a “jihadist leprechaun.”

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