(National-UAE) Mehmet Oz, the first Muslim to be nominated by a major party for the US Senate, was defeated by Democrat John Fetterman in Pennsylvania during the midterms, but elsewhere, Muslim Americans fared better.
In all, 145 Muslim Americans ran for local, state and federal positions, with some winning and snagging titles of “first.”
At the federal level, all three Muslim-American incumbents in the House of Representatives — Andre Carson, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — won their re-election bids.
The first Muslim elected to US Congress, Keith Ellison, kept his current seat as Minnesota’s attorney general by a narrow margin of 0.84 per cent.
