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With the Senate race entering its final stretch, Abdul El-Sayed spent Monday flanked by Detroit elected officials, labor leaders and community activists as he worked to lock down support of Black voters -- a key constituency for his path to victory.

A staffer for Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed was caught on undercover video dismissing concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood, calling Americans “idiots” and saying he might even support some of the organization’s activities if he was more informed. T.J. Wolfgram, El-Sayed’s independent and conservative outreach captain, made the remarks during a conversation with an ...

Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is firing back at President Trump's rhetoric about his Muslim faith.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) on Sunday fired back at President Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric toward him, telling supporters that the president will be referring to him as "Senator Mohamed" if he wins in November. "I get that the president of the United States takes personal offense to my first name," El-Sayed said at a...

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President Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, portraying him as a threat to national security and questioning his loyalty to the United States.

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) used a campaign rally for Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed on Sunday to launch a blistering attack on President Donald Trump, accusing him of running a corrupt administration, stoking racial divisions, and using his political power to benefit billionaires and corporations. Sanders, who spoke alongside […]

The president contended that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, would “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores” as he sought to bolster the G.O.P. candidate in a tight Senate race.

In the Michigan senate race, muddleheaded party leaders cannot see past the next election, writes Peter Savodnik. Will the voters? On Saturday, Barack Obama turned up at a high school gymnasium in Detroit to tell Michiganders to vote for Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. That was, as far as the nation’s 44th president could make out, common sense. If you believe in healthcare for all, good jobs, and hope and change—all the things Democrats supposedly believe in—well, El-Sayed was your only choice. Referring to “those at the top” opposing the would-be senator (a strange way of putting things for a former president with a 29-acre waterfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard), Obama said: “They will use division, and they may even use your name or your faith to somehow suggest that you are dangerous and less than trustworthy and less patriotic and less American than they are.”

Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers accused NBC's Kristen Welker of defending his Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed during a heated "Meet the Press" exchange.

Michigan has one of the nation's most competitive U.S. Senate races heading into the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

Trump, who imposed a travel ban targeting several predominantly Muslim countries during his first term, has increasingly leaned into anti-Muslim rhetoric as Election Day approaches.

Kyle Kuzma fired back at Barack Obama's rally pitch for Abdul El-Sayed, saying Michiganders care about poverty and cost of living, not religion.

Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers argued Sunday that his opponent Abdul El-Sayed can count out key Democrat voting blocs ahead of the midterm election, some of whom Rogers says are turning to his campaign. “The Democrat coalitions that we have are the fastest-growing coalitions we have,” Rogers said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He then ...

Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers broke with President Donald Trump on Sunday, declining to agree with the president calling Democrat Abdul el Sayed a “vicious, violent jihadist.” Rogers rejected the idea that he has referred to his opponent in such a manner, telling NBC’s Kristen Welker he has “never” called el Sayed a terrorist. […]

DETROIT — Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail Saturday evening with a message as much about the kind of Democrat Abdul el Sayed represents as about the Republican he is trying to defeat. Obama, campaigning for el Sayed in Detroit just 10 days before Election Day, acknowledged the Democratic Michigan Senate candidate […]

Former president speaks to crowd of thousands in support of Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate and Democratic ticket Barack Obama told a Detroit crowd on Saturday that Abdul El-Sayed was “fighting for change, real change, that will get money out of politics and put money in your pocket”, as he threw his weight behind the Democratic Senate candidate and the rest of the ticket on the first day of early voting in Michigan. Obama said in front of thousands of onlookers at Cass technical high school in Detroit that El-Sayed would “finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act and guarantee quality, affordable healthcare to every single American”. Continue reading...

The former Democratic president is showing major support in Detroit for the progressive Michigan candidate in final days before US midterm elections Sign up for Breaking News US email My colleague Joseph Gedeon is attending the rally for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan today, where he says thousands are in attendance. Joseph will bring us the latest lines directly from the rally. As a candidate positioned at the center of what researchers say are the worst Islamophobic attacks seen since the aftermath of 9/11, many would expect Abdul El-Sayed to simply defend himself and move on. Continue reading...

Former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers told Breitbart News Saturday that his campaign is attracting support from longtime Democratic voters as he seeks to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in November, while raising concerns about his opponent's alleged connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and positions on national security. The post EXCLUSIVE — Mike Rogers Warns of Abdul El-Sayed’s Radical Ideology: ‘This Is About the Heart and Soul of America’ appeared first on Breitbart .

The Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as one of the biggest late-campaign issues in Michigan's closely watched Senate race.

The half-sister of Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed wrote in 2016 that federal agents had searched the home she shared with their mother, the Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday. Eman Abdelhadi, a University of Chicago professor, made the remark in an essay about a New York vigil for victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. She ...

Abdul El-Sayed used race-based, identity politics to propel his journey from academia to the doorstep of the US Senate.

The Michigan Senate race heated up on "Special Report" as Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers clashed over war powers, Medicare-for-all and Muslim Brotherhood allegations.

Abdul el Sayed wasn’t the only progressive Democrat helped by a survey from Wedgewood, the fraudulent pollster that is roiling Michigan’s Senate race. Wedgewood also produced a July “poll” that showed Troy Jackson leading Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) as Democrats in Maine were deciding who should replace their embattled Senate nominee, Graham Platner. The purported […]

Abdul el Sayed is starting to crumble under the public pressure of his Senate campaign in Michigan, so he has sprinted to the Democratic Party’s old, reliable argument: Everyone criticizing him must be a bigot. El Sayed has fully embraced this line of defense, telling a rally crowd about his debate with Republican candidate Mike […]