Erika Kirk says there is no "Arab America," only the United States of America
Erika KirkChief executive of Turning Point USA, posting on her X account
Quoting Fox News's clip of El-Sayed's remark, Kirk writes that there is no Arab America and that there is only the United States of America.
“There is no “Arab America.” There is only the United States of America.”
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Abdul El-Sayed calls Michigan "the capital of Arab America"; critics say there is no Arab America, and the summit's host says the line was not meant literally
On November 6, 2026, three days after he won Michigan's U.S. Senate race, Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed spoke at the Arab America Foundation's CONNECT Empowerment Summit in Chantilly, Virginia. He said that Washington is the capital of the United States, "but Michigan is the capital of Arab America." A clip spread on X that night. Conservative commentators and officials, including Turning Point USA chief executive Erika Kirk, Laura Loomer and Representative Nancy Mace, replied that there is no Arab America, only the United States. Arab America, the summit's host, said the phrase was not meant literally and referred to the concentration of Arab American communities in Michigan.
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Erika Kirk's post quoting Fox News's clip of El-Sayed's remark.
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Fox News's post with a video clip of the remark, published the evening of the speech (Nov. 6 in U.S. time). Several of the posts recorded on this case quote it.
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Kirk's post quotes Fox News's post of the clip, in which El-Sayed says that Michigan is the capital of Arab America.
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Kirk rejects the idea of an Arab America that El-Sayed's remark names and says there is only the United States of America, which condemns the remark.
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