Same guy who just headlined a CAIR event.

PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Keith Ellison is desperately trying to convince fellow Democrats who backed Bernie Sanders for president that it’s time to rally around Hillary Clinton — but he’s finding it tough going.

“You know, supporting a candidate is not nominating them for sainthood,” the Minnesota congressman told an older African-American man in an impromptu debate on the sidewalk in downtown Philadelphia.

Ellison, an early and staunch supporter of Sen. Sanders’s bid for the Democratic party’s nomination, defended his decision to endorse Clinton this month. But his sparring partner would have none of it and pushed back, lumping Clinton in with neoconservatives because of her vote for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. […]

“I’m not aware of any nominee for any major party who’s openly called for religious exclusion, who said, ‘no fill in the blanks can come here,’” he told Foreign Policy.

“It’s racism — there’s no other way to put it.” And Trump has made it “mainstream,” he said.

“This is a clear and present threat to the republic — this should alarm everyone,” he said.