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Supporters of Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed voiced support for guaranteed income at a Detroit rally featuring former President Barack Obama.

Democrats have been emphasizing lots of issues in the runup to the 2026 midterms: The Iran war. The state of the economy and healthcare. Corruption. And…hotness. Specifically, their candidates: The internet is awash in clips of Michigan candidate Abdul El-Sayed pumping iron and podcasters proclaiming that “America deserves a hot president” in a video interspersed […]

Abdul El-Sayed's former primary rival Haley Stevens dodged a direct endorsement on CNN's "State of the Union," sparking progressive backlash online.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) trashed an openly antisemitic ad promoting her former primary opponent Abdul El Sayed, saying that it would do nothing to help Democrats win in Michigan. The ad, shared by “Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur, featured a couple at a grocery store arguing over which items they would have to put back. ...

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.”

Do you make $184,500? Congratulations! Abdul El-Sayed will help the government to 12.4% of it.

Even for a Democratic candidate, the level of deference he has received is nothing short of extraordinary.

Former President Barack Obama rallied for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Saturday as the bitterly fought contest could come down to the city’s substantial Black vote.

Former President Barack Obama pinned inflation and high prices on President Donald Trump and urged Democrats to get to the polls, especially for Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, in a final push as early voting started in the state Saturday.

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...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) responded to a question on Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed changing his stance on defunding the police by saying that El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike The post Dingell on El-Sayed Flipping on Defunding Police: Rogers ‘Flip-Flopped, Too’ appeared first on Breitbart .

Abdul El-Sayed rallies with Barack Obama in Michigan, but undecided Black voters in Detroit say the endorsement hasn't swayed their decision.

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 […]

Speaking at a recent rally in Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed delivered a snarky and ignorant remark about the Second Amendment: “When they promised the right to bear arms, they had muskets. So yeah, everyone should have equal rights to a musket.” The Second Amendment doesn’t guarantee the right of individuals to keep […]

Former President Barack Obama’s Saturday appearance with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed will be hailed as a moment of party unity, but it will also represent a changing of the guard. The rise of socialism within the Democratic Party, to which el Sayed is at least adjacent, is a repudiation of Obama’s legacy […]

Abdul el Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, told ABC News on Monday that “it’s time for us to realize that Israel is actually not our friend,” comparing the Jewish state to a kid who keeps “bumming off” your child’s money and dragging him into fights. Days earlier, he assured Jewish voters that whatever their “differences” […]

Celinda Lake, founder of Lake Research and a Democratic pollster whose firm has done polling for Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign, says Republicans are in deep trouble, but Democrats have a lot to prove. Lake says Republicans are in trouble with farmers as diesel prices remain elevated and trade policy is hurting farmers. Lake says Democrats are short of money, but sees potential for surprises in races around the country. She speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg’s "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)

The Michigan Democrat’s faith is at the center of one of the most important Senate races.

Not voting in a particular race in an election is called an undervote.