At a campaign event outside of Detroit, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas attempted to tie Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood — a claim El-Sayed has repeatedly denied.

"My nickname for the guy is the jihadist leprechaun," Cruz said about El-Sayed.

Cruz later said that El-Sayed would get top-level security clearance as a U.S. Senator if elected, claiming that El-Sayed could be put on the Senate Intelligence Committee, "and if I am correct that he is a passionate supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, there is a very real risk that Americans will die as a result."

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[–] 1 point 22 minutes ago

These racist Republicans have nothing to fearmonger about him, so they use his "scary-sounding Muslim name". Dude's actually a boring, dependable guy who just want to govern and try to do the right thing...

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  • [–] 2 points 59 minutes ago

    Thats apparently a future supreme court justice talking about a future Senator. Isnt this a lovely timeline?

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  • [–] 9 points 7 hours ago

    Wait... El-Sayed is irish now?

    this is getting entertaining.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 hours ago*

    My nickname for the guy is

    Nobody <clap> gives <clap> a fuck.

    Trump is obsessed with belittling people with mean nicknames. But they are fucking tired and you don't have a tenth of Trump's brazenness to be endearing. Fuck off to whatever country you hole up in while your state suffers climate disasters, you toad-faced suppository.

    That's my nickname for you, Ted.

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  • [–] 38 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Getting real hard to believe any MAGAts when they say they aren’t racist.

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  • [–] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    They’re an inch different in height, is Ted a Canadian leprechaun?

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  • [–] 7 points 12 hours ago

    So for voting, pretty much anyone MAGA hates should get a checkbox. Got it.

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  • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Aw. He thinks the guy is magically delicious. Daydreaming about his pot o gold at the end of the rainbow 🌈

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago*

    Take your pills, Rafael.

    I prescribe the cyanide flavour.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (1 child)

    Another article asserts Trump wants to nominate Cruz to the Supreme Court. Could a non-Christian get justice in Cruz's Court?

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