Lawrence O’Donnell Makes Absolute Cinema Out Of This Dem’s ‘Simplest’ Midterm Verdict

HuffPost · Ben Blanchet · 2026-11-05 15:58 UTC

The MS NOW host said the Democratic candidate described the “most important thing” about the election night results.

Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday highlighted how Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed — who is set to become the first Muslim U.S. senator — offered the “simplest way” to describe the “most important thing” about the big blue wave on election night.

The MS NOW host, who weighed in on clips from an array of Democrats’ speeches as the results poured in, noted that the progressive faced vicious, false attacks like “no other” Senate candidate in U.S. history before rolling a clip of his message to parents and children who paid attention to the race.

“To all the parents who struggled to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost,” said El-Sayed, referring to Donald Trump calling to him by his middle name, Mohamed.

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