Why Nearly 100 Muslims Won National, Local Races In The US Midterm Elections

<blockquote><b>At least 97 Muslim Americans have won their races in this week's midterm elections, encompassing the federal, state, and local levels, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations (Cair). <br></b><br>It's hard to imagine that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's landslide win last year didn't have an impact on his fellow Muslims who hadn't entertained the possibilities. <br><br><b>More than a dozen other candidates are still awaiting the full ballot count - depending on individual county rules and the way mail-in votes are handled - but they are ahead of their opponents as of Friday morning.</b><br><br>They come from a pool of 168 Muslim-American candidates who made it past the primary stage of their races, which is when they compete within their own party to earn the nomination. <br><br><b>Seven Muslim Americans are headed to Washington, DC<br><br><br>Six are going to the House of Representatives, including incumbents Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson, and Lateefah Simon; and they will be joined by freshmen Adam Hamawy and Darializa Avila Chevalier. <br></b><br>If Aisha Wahab secures her win, which had not been decided by Friday morning local time, she would also join the incumbent House members. <br><br><b>One Muslim American is going to the Senate: Abdul El-Sayed. He will be the first to ever serve a six-year term in the upper chamber. <br><br>Cair has tracked 39 other statewide offices where Muslim Americans won, ranging from attorney general to the state legislature and the state senate. <br></b><br><b>At the county and municipal level, there are 16 winners, and education and school boards saw 27 Muslim-Americans elected. <br><br>Eight were elected to be judges</b>. <br><br>The wins make for an all-time record, and come as anti-Muslim sentiment and rhetoric, particularly among Republicans, is at its highest in a generation, according to groups like Muslim Public Affairs Council (Mpac), the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSO), and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU).</blockquote><a rel=ugc href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-nearly-100-muslims-win-national-local-races-us-midterm-elections">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-nearly-100-muslims-win-national-local-races-us-midterm-elections</a>