Disgust after voter spouts ‘bone-chilling’ panic over candidate's name: ‘Embarrassing'

A young voter's on-camera concern about a Democratic Senate nominee left political observers stunned as a short clip ricocheted across social media.On Thursday, journalist Richard Gaisford shared a roughly 30-second exchange with a 19-year-old voter in Detroit who was worried about the name of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat running for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat."He doesn't even say his real name," the teenager said. "Like, why can't you share your real name?"The interviewer pushed back, asking, "What is his real name? His real name is Doctor Abdul El-Sayed.""You didn't see where he said it's Mohammed?" the teenager asked. "It's Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed."The interviewer then asked for the middle name of El-Sayed's Republican opponent, Mike Rogers. "Mohammed's not his middle name," she responded.Gaisford tagged Al Jazeera English and billed the conversation as "illuminating." Much of the response that followed zeroed in not on the young voter herself but on the political...