Trump’s election-day claim that El-Sayed hates three groups is unsubstantiated

The message, recorded by the Trump’s Truth archive at 12.52am Eastern time on 3 November, called voters who would support El-Sayed “fools” but gave no examples for the allegations. Comments by El-Sayed have drawn criticism, but they do not establish the sweeping group hatred Trump alleged.

The contest for retiring Democrat Gary Peters’ Senate seat could help determine control of the chamber. El-Sayed would be the first Muslim US senator if elected.

Trump made similar accusations about Jewish and Black people on 25 October. That post did not separately mention white people. Two days later, Vice-President JD Vance accused El-Sayed of “explicitly anti-white racial hatred”.

After the March attack on Temple Israel, a synagogue in West Bloomfield, El-Sayed condemned the violence and said antisemitism had no place in the community. In the same statement, he said relatives of the attacker had been killed in an air strike in Lebanon and argued that this had driven the attack, using the phrase “hurt people hurt people”.

Michigan Public reported that some Jewish voters found the remarks dismissive, while others supported him. In an August interview with The Breakfast Club, El-Sayed said it had been a mistake to offer that context at the time and apologised to those offended.

In that interview, El-Sayed also faced questions about his support among Black voters. He said he had to make the case that his agenda could succeed. Elsewhere in the interview, he argued that people needed healthcare and workplace protections whether they were Arab, Black or white.

A short clip aired in September by commentator Dave Rubin showed El-Sayed saying “White people like to call me a socialist”, after denying he was one. Rubin called the remark racist. The generalisation does not establish that El-Sayed hates white people.

In a separate controversy in late October, rapper Nicki Minaj, who campaigned for Rogers, said El-Sayed was projecting anger onto white people after a podcast clip circulated. Elon Musk also wrote that El-Sayed hated white people, according to Poli Alert. The outlet reported that El-Sayed compared his childhood with his description of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s upbringing and spoke of being a “brown kid”. It said the words “white kids” were in a caption, not in what El-Sayed said in the clip.

Haley Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary to El-Sayed,