Abdul El-Sayed blasted his Michigan Senate race opponent Mike Rogers, labeling him a “coward” after the former congressman and other Republicans launched Islamophobic attacks against El-Sayed after his victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

“Mike Rogers should never see the inside of the U.S. Senate,” El-Sayed told MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Wednesday, adding, “His ideas are old, his perspective on politics is old — and he’s going to find that people don’t want that perspective anymore. So, of course he’s going to do the same thing that MAGA always does, which is try to divide us.”

El-Sayed, a physician, also addressed criticism from other Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance. On Wednesday, Vance said on Fox News, “He’s this guy who holds himself out as a working-class hero, as a guy who’s going to fight for the working class. How does he fight for the working class? By flooding his state and his country with low-wage immigrants.”

“I think we’ve had enough of him,” El-Sayed said of the vice president, adding that the “last thing that he said that made any sense” was in 2016, when he criticized Donald Trump’s presidential bid.

“That was the last time he made sense, and then he decided to suck up to power,” he told Soboroff.

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Allison Detzel

Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”