He and Abdul El-Sayed are showcasing the kind of aggressive spirit Democrats need to adopt in the new Congress.
Victory speeches from winning candidates usually follow a similar script: Thank the family, staff and volunteers; riff on how inspiring the campaign was; remind people of the hard work ahead; and extend good wishes to the defeated rival, in the spirit of generosity.
But not all Democratic winners did that on Tuesday night. In Michigan, Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed was not going to let bygones be bygones. Addressing his opponent, Mike Rogers, he said, “So, Mike, enjoy your retirement. I know you got a house in Florida and two yachts. See, you chose hate, and Michigan chose hope. May we never have to see the likes of you in this state again.”
El-Sayed wasn’t done. He moved on to Vice President JD Vance, who had described the Democrat as a “psychopath” and “very, very evil.”
“Habibi,” El-Sayed said with a smile, using an Arabic term of endearment. “There is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.”
Down in Georgia, Sen. Jon Ossoff didn’t even bother mentioning his opponent, Rep. Mike Collins — though he did say that “the American people have rebuked the depravity, corruption and incompetence of the failed lame-duck president, Donald J. Trump.”
Not everybody is going to be on board with 100% of your issues.
He should pick something else to be wrong about. Israel must end.
It just colonization and genocide. Not a big issue right?
It is also cancellation of the first amendment in the US, that will then be applied across the board. Fuck Israel, they are the devil. I am sure Ossof sucks them off to some degree. Better like covid to ebola. That said I voted for covid!
It’s a significantly complicated issue that has a lot of gray area.
No, Israel is not grey coloured, they are nazi colored and we all should know it. There is no grey area here, just a test of character, that Ossof apparently didn’t quite pass. I’m glad he won, but, no, just no gray area.
lol, ok. I don’t know everything about Israel, but I am sure they have massive numbers of citizens that are not nazis and deserve support.
Israel the country is Nazi. As with all countries, the citizens are not necessarily responsible, as a resident of the US I naturally am inclined to that.
Conflating criticism of a country with it’s people as a whole, is some nazi shit to do by the way, that is Israel’s entire thing in fact.
Sounds like we discovered gray area in supporting Israel. Great job.
Wrong again. Stop being wrong please. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
He already won. Why are you bringing voting?
The vote already happened, and we still can’t recognize the deficiencies in our candidates in your estimation?
I will not pretend the dems are good, they aren’t, except my man El Sayed. And bullying people into pretending they are good is why we fucking lose.
When the deficiencies are so serious , it should be called out and politicians should be forced to abide to international laws and morality .