Trump Praises Haley Stevens' Defection, Calls Abdul El-Sayed a Jihadist
Speaking on stage in Iowa, Trump praised Congresswoman Haley Stevens for backing Mike Rogers' Senate campaign and called Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed a jihadist, according to a Guardian video report.
Trump praised Congresswoman Haley Stevens for leaving the Democratic Party to support Mike Rogers' Senate campaign, and welcomed her to join the Republican Party, according to a Guardian video report. The remarks were made on stage in Iowa, the report said. The report was credited to Guardian Staff.
In the same remarks, Trump called Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, a "jihadist," the Guardian reported. El-Sayed is the progressive Democratic nominee for Senate, the report said. The Guardian described the comment as continuing a line of Islamophobic attacks against him, and its headline characterized the remarks as a racist diatribe.
The summary of the report available for this story is partial. It does not include the full text of Trump's remarks, a response from Stevens, Rogers or El-Sayed, or details of the event beyond the setting in Iowa. No other outlet's reporting was provided for this story, and the report does not specify a time or location beyond Iowa.
Because the account rests on a single outlet's video report, the details above are presented as that outlet reported them. The characterizations of the remarks as Islamophobic and racist are the Guardian's, and they have not been independently confirmed in this story.