Republican rising star, 33, who was attacked for not having children reveals why being single without kids is advantageous in politics

When Abe Hamadeh, 33, jumped into a title for Congress successful Arizona, he had small thought conscionable really vicious and individual nan attacks would get. 

But earlier Hamadeh's triumph connected Tuesday, his GOP superior foe Blake Masters launched nasty accusations astir his Muslim and Syrian practice and alluded that politicians without children - for illustration Abe - don't merit to clasp office.  

'I'm a large believer that this life is impermanent and our souls are eternal,' Hamadeh told DailyMail.com successful his first integer question and reply aft defeating Masters successful nan contentious primary.

'I deliberation they're gonna person to warrant to their psyche for what they did,' he said of nan attacks against him. 

Masters leaned into Vance's 'childless feline lady' slur from 2021 against Democrats for illustration Vice President Kamala Harris. He directed nan aforesaid disapproval astatine Hamadeh, who is single, contrasting that pinch himself, pinch a 'wonderful woman and 4 beautiful boys.'

'Political leaders should person children. Certainly they should astatine slightest beryllium married,' Masters wrote connected X. 'If you aren’t moving aliases can’t tally a family of your own, really tin you subordinate to a constituency of families, aliases govern wisely pinch respect to early generations? Skin successful nan crippled matters.'

Hamadeh insisted to DailyMail.com that having children should not beryllium nan barroom for nationalist office. 

'I can't really speak to J.D. Vance's ain words and what he was saying. But I do, you know, judge that you tin beryllium an American and you tin beryllium a leader without children,' Hamadeh said. 

'We've had galore generals. We've had galore people, conscionable for illustration George Washington didn't person children.' 

He went on: 'You know, I deliberation I'm a beautiful young feline successful politics. I mean, I'm 33 years old. It was benignant of an different flimsy astatine maine coming from Blake.'

But he claimed Vance's comments connected nan matter had been overblown. 

'These are 3 twelvemonth aged comments. I mean, if you spell backmost to Kamala Harris, I mean, this woman, she's a disaster. She's been truthful many, you bone-headed comments, and she's done a horrible occupation connected policy, connected nan separator and truthful galore different things. I deliberation nan runway of nan communicative has tally out.'

Ads against Hamadeh besides went aft his parents and Muslim and Druze upbringing. 

'Dishonest Abe claims that 'America was founded connected Islamic principles,' not nan Judeo-Christian values that made America great. We person capable violent sympathizers successful Congress,' 1 advertisement released by a PAC supporting Masters said. 

'You declare Islam is simply a belief of hate, and should beryllium feared yet our ain Constitution of nan United States was based disconnected of Abrahamic religions, including Islam,' Hamadeh wrote successful a Rand Paul forum erstwhile he was a teenager.

Masters' run besides paid for thoroughfare signs that highlighted  'America was founded connected Islamic principles' quote alongside a image of Hamadeh successful Mecca connected a Hajj that Hamadeh says was taken while he was connected a deployment pinch nan U.S. Army.

Hamadeh, nan 33-year-old boy of Syrian immigrants and a erstwhile charismatic and Army intelligence officer, antecedently mislaid a title for Arizona lawyer wide successful 2022. He and Masters had tally connected nan aforesaid summons that year, nan second successful an unsuccessful Senate race.  

Other ads put retired by Masters and his supporters accused Hamadeh of being soft connected migration and claimed he was calved to forbidden migrant parents. 

'My mediocre mother, she couldn't watch section TV,' Hamadeh said, adding Masters had flooded it pinch ads that attacked his family. 

'I was nan only seasoned who moving for this race. It was conscionable wholly despicable. And nan past week they actually, they really claimed I defended terrorists. It was wholly uncalled for. I person a apical concealed clearance and was an intelligence officer.' 

'It was a vicious, disgusting run that should not beryllium replicated. I'm gladsome nan voters rejected it.'

Hamadeh himself is leaning successful to his background. 

'My mom is Druze, my begetter is Muslim and they some came from Syria. I person family from Venezuela, truthful I person benignant of a first-hand penetration connected immoderate of these failing countries, and that's why I'm trying to forestall America from turning into that,' he said. 

'We were connected nutrient stamps astatine 1 point. I cognize what it feels for illustration to skip a meal, and I cognize what it feels for illustration to beryllium underestimated, to person nan elites look down connected you.' 

Hamadeh was thrown different last-minute twist conscionable earlier nan primary: nan endorsement he'd scored from Donald Trump was fundamentally rendered useless erstwhile Trump decided to besides endorse his apical competitor Masters. 

It was nan first clip Trump had formally issued endorsements to some apical candidates successful a title - successful a move that put connected show really small he likes to consequence being connected nan losing side. Trump later boasted that his endorsed candidates were '10 for 10' successful Arizona. 

The title had been unsocial successful that Trump primitively recovered himself connected nan other broadside of it from his VP prime Sen. J.D. Vance, who backed Masters. 

'He didn't endorse Blake Masters earlier he chose JD Vance,' Hamadeh noted. 'I think, from what I'm being told, that location was immoderate polling that was shared pinch him, and I conscionable deliberation that polling was wildly inaccurate.'

Vance had told Tucker Carlson successful a 2021 question and reply nan U.S. is tally 'via nan Democrats, via our firm oligarchs—by a bunch of childless feline ladies.'

'Dishonest Abe supported Chuck Schumer's amnesty bill, possibly because Abe's parents were forbidden immigrants,' a Masters advertisement said. 'Dishonest Abe said women person nan correct to abort their babies. Dishonest Abe supported cuts to Social Security, Medicare and nan military. Dishonest Abe said America was founded connected Islamic principles. He moreover said Israel was down 9/11.' 

Hamadeh, to beryllium clear, did not tally a run to nan near of Masters. He's still fighting against nan predetermination results successful his lawyer wide title successful 2022 - and was a frontline defender of Trump's claims of elector fraud successful Arizona successful 2020. 

Asked astir his apical legislative priorities, Hamadeh called for 'military force' to conflict supplier cartels astatine nan confederate border, predetermination integrity, to extremity 'sending money overseas' and making Social Security tax-free, an thought Trump precocious suggested.