President Donald Trump, in a desperate bid to save Republican majorities in Congress, traveled back to South Carolina, where he went after Black and Jewish voters.
Trump rallied MAGA supporters in Rock Hill Thursday, on behalf of Darline Graham, who’s running for her deceased brother Lindsay Graham’s U.S. Senate seat.
Trump has spent the last few weeks on the campaign trail bashing Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and he did the same thing there. He’s called him a jihadist, a terrorist and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, none of which is true.
Trump’s attacks on El-Sayed come as the latest poll shows he’s leading his Republican rival Mike Rogers by 7 points.
But the president took his offensive against El-Sayed to a new level at the South Carolina rally, calling anyone who supports the Michigan Democrat “crazy.”
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“If you’re Black or if you’re Jewish and if you vote for Abdul, you’re crazy, OK, you’re crazy,” Trump ranted.
Then he insultingly added, “You’re crazy anyway.”
Social media went crazy, lambasting Trump and accusing him of racism.
“’You’re crazy anyway’ is another dementia slip. Keep it up, donnie,” a Threads user stated. “He’s a stupid, racist POS,” another proclaimed.
Others agreed.
“Combining racism and antisemitism,” a commenter ironically posted.
This poster may have said it best. “This is like listening to your drunk, racist Grandfather ramble on at Thanksgiving dinner.”
Later, while talking to reporters at the White House, Trump doubled down on his remarks about El-Sayed and Black and Jewish voters.
“He’s a terrible liability. I think he’s got power over some of these Democrats, and he’ll be voting that way. I think he’s a communist. There’s no question about it,” Trump insisted.
“His statements are so bad. How a Jewish person could vote for a Democrat is not even, if you think of it, not even believable and yet they will,” the president groused.
“It’s not possible in a world of rationality that someone who is Jewish, someone who is Black, could vote to be a Democrat, could vote for a Democrat,” he insisted.
During a campaign stop in Michigan on Sunday, Oct. 25, Trump suggested El-Sayed was a national security threat and questioned his loyalty to the United States, NPR reported.
For his part, El-Sayed is taking on the Trump machine. During a recent podcast interview with comedian and actor Hasan Minhaj, the popular Democrat fired back at Trump and his cronies.
“We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. Whatever you think about him, he has one genius, which is the genius of getting attention,” El-Sayed said in brutally calling out the president.
“But the man is an idiot when it comes right down to it, just a fool,” he added.
However, he wasn’t done with Trump or his lackeys.
“And then you’ve got other people like JD Vance … JD Vance is a smart person but he has no actual soul, and he has no actual charisma … And then you have people like Pete Hegseth who are mini-fool bullies around him,” the Rhodes Scholar continued.
“This whole coterie of the dumbest people or the most cowardly people are running the country. So, part of the responsibility I think we have is not to allow them to use their power to bend the rest of us to their will and that means standing up.”
A Michigan poll last weekend shows El-Sayed with a significant lead over Rogers. The survey found the Democrat leading 51 percent to Rogers’ 44 percent. There’s a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent.
