Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed used his Michigan victory speech Tuesday night to mock President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and defeated Republican opponent Mike Rogers. The combative address offered an early preview of the posture El-Sayed plans to bring to the Senate.

El-Sayed, who defeated Rogers, accused his political opponents of conducting a vicious campaign against him. He said they “went all-in on one of the ugliest campaigns we've seen in our lifetimes.”

The Democrat argued that attacks focused on his name and Muslim faith did nothing to address the financial pressures facing Michigan voters. He tied those attacks directly to concerns about gas and grocery costs.

“They might have been pointing at my name and my faith, but we all know my name and my faith aren't the reason you can't afford your gas or afford your groceries,” El-Sayed said.

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He also took aim at Trump, saying the president’s comments about him had become “uglier and coarser” during the contest. El-Sayed framed the election result as a repudiation of those remarks.

Addressing parents who might have struggled to explain the president’s language, El-Sayed said, “To all the parents who struggle to explain why the president openly mocked someone for their name or how they pray, let them know tomorrow that the bad guys lost.”

El-Sayed continued by presenting his victory as a rejection of a narrower vision of the country. “They want an America that is too small for some of us, but we know America is big enough for all of us,” he said.

The victory lap then turned toward Vance, whom El-Sayed has frequently battled in recent months. El-Sayed focused his mockery on the vice president’s constitutional responsibility to swear him into the Senate in January.

“There is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January. So you know what that means. Wolverine one. Buckeye zero,” El-Sayed said.

El-Sayed later shifted his attention to Israel and federal spending abroad. He said Americans want their money spent within the United States rather than supporting Israeli policies and military operations he opposes.

“We don't want our money spent on apartheid or genocidal war,” El-Sayed added. His comments followed Trump’s statement that Israel would stop receiving $4 billion in United States aid by the end of the year, while remaining able to purchase weapons.

Rogers was not spared from the senator-elect’s taunts. El-Sayed told his defeated Republican opponent to “enjoy your retirement,” then added, “May we never have to see the likes of you in the state again.”

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During the campaign, El-Sayed faced scrutiny over alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, his rhetoric concerning Israel and Jewish voters in Michigan, and his ties to controversial political streamer Hasan Piker. Criticism also came from fellow Democrats.

Rogers, meanwhile, could not overcome the political headwinds facing Republicans during the election cycle. Those troubles included affordability concerns, Trump’s trade war with Canada launched during the midterms, and the Iran war, despite Rogers attempting to distance himself from the latter issues.

El-Sayed’s victory delivered a major setback to the Republican effort to push back against the progressive direction of Democratic politics. After his surprise victory over Rep. Haley Stevens, Republicans portrayed El-Sayed as the face of socialism and communism in their campaign messaging.

His Tuesday night remarks made clear that he had little interest in offering defeated Republicans a gracious exit. Instead, El-Sayed celebrated with pointed attacks on Trump, Vance and Rogers while elevating the same political disputes that shaped the bruising Michigan Senate race.

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