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Dana Milbank: Ted Cruz Threw an Islamophobic Party — And Nobody Showed Up

After Abdul El-Sayed’s win, Republicans got real ugly, real fast.

The Republican Party declared open season on America’s Muslims on Wednesday.

On the very morning that Muslim American Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the official campaign arm of Senate Republicans, released an ad showing grainy footage of El-Sayed and this message:

“Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, the most radical Senate candidate in America. El-Sayed pledged support for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a designated foreign terrorist group … and when his ally claimed America deserved 9/11, El-Sayed refused to disavow it.”