Right-wing TV hosts are attacking Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with mockery and lies, a smear based on his religion and background rather than his record.

• El-Sayed is being ridiculed and compared to Zohran Mamdani, another Muslim candidate, simply for being Muslim.
• The attacks push false claims that he is a foreign immigrant.
• The whole approach is identity politics with no substance, running for days on end.
• The pattern serves rich donors who want tax cuts, deregulation, and endless wars, and pay pundits to smear their targets.

Outlook: Expect the attacks on El-Sayed to keep running as his campaign gains attention.