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- Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Senate nominee, called President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 actions “terrorism” and likened them to Osama bin Laden’s Sept. 11 attacks in a 2021 blog post.
- He argued that lawmakers have a constitutional and moral duty to convict Trump, citing the May 1, 2011 raid that killed bin Laden.
- Republicans have run attack ads and spent millions on the Michigan Senate race in response to his remarks.
