Audience members shouted calls to shoot Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a Ted Cruz campaign event, and no one on stage pushed back — a bad sign for how ugly this election is getting.

• A video played at the event framed El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, and Hasan Piker as threats, and people in the crowd yelled for El-Sayed to be shot.
• Cruz, who was there, said nothing — unlike John McCain, who once shut down a supporter smearing Obama.
• El-Sayed responded by calling it a call to violence that should be condemned by both parties, and said politics should not be a blood sport.
• The attacks lean hard on his religion, and the charge is that this is plain anti-Muslim racism dressed up as a debate about socialism.
• Big TV networks get blamed for amplifying the same framing while ignoring stories like the Epstein files and the record of Cruz-aligned Senate candidate Mike Rogers.

Outlook: Expect Republicans to keep making Muslim and socialist Democrats the face of the election, since Trump's approval sits near 33% and they do not want the vote to be about him.