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President Donald Trump told a Tennessee rally crowd he is taking Michigan personally — vowing to keep calling Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed "Mohammad" no matter the backlash, and warning that this time illegal votes will be prosecuted.
"To me it's Mohammad. I'm the President, I can call him whatever the hell I want," Trump said, according to the rally clip, brushing off corrections over El-Sayed's name. He treated El-Sayed the way he went after Zohran Mamdani in New York — calling out what he described as a radical record — and told the crowd he intends to keep Michigan's border solid and the state locked down.
El-Sayed, a progressive Democrat running against Republican Mike Rogers for Michigan's open Senate seat, would be the first Muslim senator if elected. Trump has made the race a personal project, framing it the same way he framed the Mamdani fight: a test of whether the country lets the left's most radical candidates walk into power.
On election integrity, Trump told the crowd the SAVE America Act didn't pass — "but the difference this time is simple: illegal votes will be prosecuted." The line drew one of the biggest reactions of the night, with the crowd applauding and laughing as he doubled down on the name.
The Tennessee rally was part of Trump's midterm push through battleground states, and the Michigan message was unmistakable: he's not just campaigning for Rogers, he's taking the fight to El-Sayed himself — by whatever name he chooses.
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