Unfortunately, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was being serious when he compared himself to JFK earlier this week. This was the second time El-Sayed made the comparison in a matter of days, and it’s patently absurd.
MS NOW correspondent Ali Velshi asked El-Sayed on live television, “You get a whole lot of questions about the Muslim Brotherhood, and terrorism, and radical Islamism…what’s your best response right now?”
El-Sayed responded, “Look, at the end of the day, the whole reason this question is being asked is to insinuate that somehow I have dual loyalties.”
He then invoked his fellow Democrat, perhaps one of the party’s most famous and beloved, and said, “When John F. Kennedy ran for president, he was asked whether his allegiance would be to the Constitution, or to the Pope and the Vatican, because he would have been the first Catholic president.”
Where to start.
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