{"id":88065,"date":"2026-11-04T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88065"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T11:35:03","slug":"first-muslim-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/first-muslim-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"First Muslim Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the New York Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/democratic-candidate-us-senate-abdul-147499740.jpg?w=863\" alt=\"El-Sayed, with his wife, Sarah Jukaku, became the first Muslim elected to the Senate in US history.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Democrat Abdul El-Sayed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/11\/03\/us-news\/midterm-election-day-2026-live-results-from-senate-house-governor-races\/\">pulled off a stunning defeat<\/a> over Republican Mike Rogers in the crucial Michigan Senate contest, shattering conventional wisdom that a hard-left candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/11\/03\/us-news\/midterm-election-day-2026-live-results-from-senate-house-governor-races\/\">couldn\u2019t win a purple battleground<\/a>.\u00a0El-Sayed is now the first Muslim elected to the Senate in US history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMichigan, we did it,\u201d El-Sayed said at a victory party in Detroit.\u00a0\u201cI am so proud and honored to stand here as your senator-elect from the great state of Michigan.\u201d\u00a0El-Sayed led Rogers 52-46% when AP called the race at 2:27 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Post: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed pulled off a stunning defeat over Republican Mike Rogers in the crucial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88066,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88065\/revisions\/88066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}