Hey there, I'm Amid al-Yakber, and this is the Something Say Something.

This week we're going to check in on the political landscape of Muslims running for office in the midterms.

They were supportive, Ilhan Omar.

I do not think they gave much support for Abdel al-Salad whatsoever.

He was definitely an outsider within his own party.

So we're going to be talking to two BuzzFeed News reporters. First, we're going to talk to Thalal al-Ai, who's going to update us on how Muslims did in some of the midterms.

And then we're going to talk to Hannah Alam, who just published this great piece where she examined why it's so hard for Muslim Republicans to stay in the party right now.

Last year, Thalal and Hannah published this really great piece, which is really comprehensive.

They just looked at a ton of candidates who were coming up in this current primary cycle

and sort of why they came into politics and what their chances were.

And so, of course, I wanted to see what was the results of some of those primaries that now that they've happened.

So joining me now is Dahl Ansari. He's a BuzzFeed News reporter who works on the breaking news desk.

Hi, Dahl. Hey, great to be back.

So we talked to you and Hannah Alam last year about sort of this general overview of what the outlook on Muslims running for office was

after Trump's election. Can you just give us like a brief summary for those who haven't

listened to that episode of what you found when you looked at this last year?

Basically, Hannah and I just started noticing through our Twitter feeds and just other just

observational things that a lot of Muslim

Americans, it seemed as though a lot of Muslim Americans were running for office at local level,

even for governor.

And it was a little surprising, you know, we've both grown up in the U.S.

And I don't know if you remember.

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