GOP Closes Campaign with Unapologetic Bigotry

Jonathan Cohn: “Republicans keep saying their campaign against Abdul El-Sayed isn’t trying to exploit fear and hatred of Muslims.”

“Then they keep doing things to prove that it is.”

“They’ve been at it for months—literally since the first hours after El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination in early August, when the GOP launched ads referring to him by his full first name, ‘Abdulrahman.’ But they may have hit a new low last week, with an attack ad that’s all over the internet and television. Its central claim is that El-Sayed wants to impose sharia law, the religious code of Islam, on the rest of America.”