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IrelandEl-Sayed turns campaign's "Inshallah" into victory-night "Alhamdulillah"
The Michigan senator-elect's speech combines expressions of faith with pointed replies to Trump, Vance and AIPAC.
TurkeyWhy this story? One of CNN TÜRK's most watched videos since yesterday, with 188,516 views.
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"Tonight we can turn that Inshallah into a Alhamdulillah," Abdul El-Sayed tells supporters, moving from an expression meaning "God willing" to one of thanks: "Praise be to God."
Turkey's CNN TÜRK builds its report around that victory speech, presenting Michigan's senator-elect as the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate. He walks onstage with his wife and introduces himself by his full name: Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
The report describes campaign attacks on his religious and ethnic background, then shows his replies. Addressing Vice President JD Vance, El-Sayed calls the prospect of Vance administering his oath in January a "delicious irony." He describes that duty as constitutionally required, although the Constitution does not specify who must administer a senator's oath.
His response to President Donald Trump is shorter: "You can just go on and call me Senator." The report also includes archive footage of Trump saying he does not want a "jihadist" in the Senate, an attack the broadcaster connects to El-Sayed.
El-Sayed asks parents to tell their children that "the bad guys lost." He then addresses AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, saying it spent millions against him and thanking it for the opportunity to defeat it twice. That spending account is his assertion in the speech.
The Short drew roughly 189,000 views since yesterday, bringing this mix of religious affirmation and political rebuttal to a substantial Turkish audience.
An American politician and public health administrator who is the U.S. senator-elect from Michigan.
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He says the campaign's "Inshallah" can become "Alhamdulillah," an expression meaning "Praise be to God."