Linda Sarsour, a co-founder of the national Women’s March, reminded the crowd that two Muslim women are running in winnable congressional primaries, and a Muslim man has a shot at being elected governor. You’re a little bit Muslim,” El-Sayed says in his stump speech. All of this year’s Muslim Democrats in Detroit are running to the left. Last year, when he began his long-shot bid, much of the attention that came his way focused on Michigan’s opportunity to elect a Muslim governor. “[This] isn’t the year that we get our first Muslim woman to Congress — it’s the year that we get our first class of Muslim women,” Ocasio-Cortez said in Dearborn.

Source: Washington Post July 30, 2018 23:26 UTC