民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-萨耶德驳回了美国总统唐纳德·特朗普针对他的反穆斯林攻击，称这是试图将注意力从总统自身的记录上转移开。
– Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has dismissed United States President Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim attacks against him, saying that they are an attempt to move the attention away from the president’s own record.
周一在底特律的新闻发布会上，埃尔-萨耶德表示，特朗普试图通过指责这位民主党候选人是“圣战分子”，来转移美国人关心的问题——包括汽油价格和对伊朗的战争。埃尔-萨耶德称这些攻击是“毫无根据的转移视线和欺骗”。
At a news conference in Detroit on Monday, El-Sayed said Trump is trying to distract from issues that matter to Americans –including petrol prices and the war on Iran – by accusing the Democratic candidate of being a “jihadist”.
“他们对解决你们生活中的问题无话可说。他们谈的不是你们，”这位民主党候选人谈到共和党人时说。
El-Sayed called the attacks “deflections and deceptions based on no evidence”.
“他们不谈你们的汽油和杂货……他们不谈清洁空气或清洁水源。他们不谈政府实际上应该解决的任何事情。为什么？因为是唐纳德·特朗普制造了这些问题。”
“They have nothing to say about solving the problems in your life. They’re not talking about you,” the Democratic candidate said of Republicans.
周日在密歇根州的一次集会上，特朗普对埃尔-萨耶德发动了反复的无端指控，指责这位民主党人想在全国推行“沙里亚法”。
“They’re not talking about your gas or your groceries … They’re not talking about clean air or clean water. They’re not talking about any of the things that the government is actually supposed to solve. Why? Because Donald Trump has created those problems.” rally in Michigan on Sunday, Trump unleashed repeated baseless claims against El-Sayed, accusing the Democrat of wanting to impose “Sharia law” on the country.
“他是唯一一位在被允许进入参议院前必须通过金属探测器的参议员，”特朗普说。“我希望他有个金属探测器。”
“He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate,” Trump said. “I want him to have a metal detector.”El-Sayed laughed off the suggestion that he may personally be a physical threat to Congress. “He knows I got those Wolverine claws,” he said, a reference to the sports teams of his alma mater, the University of Michigan.
埃尔-萨耶德一笑置之，不以为然地回应了他可能对国会构成人身威胁的暗示。“他知道我有那些‘金刚狼’爪子，”他说，这是指他母校密歇根大学运动队的吉祥物。
The progressive Democrat and former public health official is locked in a close race with former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, a contest that could decide the Senate majority for the next two years.
这位进步派民主党人、前公共卫生官员正与前共和党众议员迈克·罗杰斯陷入胶着竞争，这场竞争可能决定未来两年的参议院多数党归属。
Rogers has made unfounded allegations linking El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hezbollah a central point of his campaign.
罗杰斯将毫无根据地指控埃尔-萨耶德与穆斯林兄弟会、哈马斯和真主党有联系，作为其竞选活动的核心攻击点。周一，埃尔-萨耶德表示，大多数美国人拒绝接受此类攻击。
On Monday, El-Sayed said most Americans reject such attacks.
“总有那么几个小人想让美国变得渺小。你们看得到他们；他们声音很大，只会叫嚣，”埃尔-赛义德说。
“There are always a few small people who want to make America small like that. You see them; they’re very loud, and they bark,” El-Sayed said.
“这个州绝大多数人相信一个伟大的美国。他们思想开明，心胸宽广。而美国的故事，就是那些相信伟大美国的人，战胜了欺骗、干扰，战胜了小气鬼让我们变渺小的可悲企图。”他补充道：“密歇根人远比那伟大得多。”
“The vast majority of folks in this state believe in a big America. They’re open-minded. They’re big-hearted. And the story of America is those who believe in big America, overcoming the deception, the distraction, the sad attempts of the small-minded to make us small.”He added that “Michiganders are a lot bigger than that”.
埃尔-赛义德还回应了特朗普嘲笑他的名字、并将其歪曲为“穆罕默德”的言论。
El-Sayed also addressed Trump’s statements mocking his name and misrepresenting it as “Mohamed”.
他说：“我的名字和我的信仰，不是你们买不起汽油的原因——不是你们买不起食品杂货的原因，不是你们付不起房租、房贷的原因，也不是你们看不起病的原因。”
“My name and my faith are not the reason you can’t afford your gas – not the reason you can’t afford your groceries, not the reason you can’t pay your rent, your mortgage, not the reason you can’t see a doctor,” he said.