Abdul El-Sayed 2026 political campaign
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Abdul El-Sayed wins US Senate seat
El-Sayed campaigned on ending US military aid to Israel.
Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammoud said voters chose El-Sayed "regardless of the direction in which he prays".
President Donald Trump called El-Sayed a jihadist and a Muslim Brotherhood member at a rally in Port Huron on 25 October.
“My name is Abdul Rahman Mohammed El-Sayed,”
Abdul El-Sayed's victory and US views on Israel
Beinart states that Harris massively outraised Trump in the 2024 election.
Beinart states that a top political consultant of Joe Biden had helped found a consulting firm that went to work for Aipac after October 7, 2023.
Haley Stevens and Mike Rogers were El-Sayed's opponents in the Michigan Senate race.
Abdul El-Sayed's hostile exchanges with reporters draw scrutiny
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander shared two video clips related to El-Sayed on social media and later deleted them.
Santander signed a five-year, $92.5 million contract before the 2025 season and missed the entire 2026 season following left shoulder surgery.
The Toronto Blue Jays issued a statement saying individual comments do not represent the organization's values and beliefs.
“offer context around the fact that that individual had lost a child, niece and nephew in an airstrike. And I want us to be thinking a little bit about, A, how we demonstrate our ability as leaders to stand with people's pain with no exceptions and no asterisks around them. And also be able to have an adult conversation about the ways in which actions ricochet around the world and create worse for all of us.”
Abdul El-Sayed's 'shawarma law' column (opinion)
Laura Loomer is an informal Trump adviser and rightwing personality.
Laura Loomer tweeted asking why God let the country get taken over by Muslims and communists.
James Kirchick, a former contributing writer to the Atlantic, called El-Sayed an Islamist.
“My name is Abdul Rahman Mohammed El-Sayed,”
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan US Senate race over Mike Rogers
El-Sayed said in his victory speech that AIPAC spent roughly $42 million running a campaign against him during the August Democratic primary.
El-Sayed earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 2007.
A group affiliated with AIPAC spent more than $30 million in an unsuccessful effort to lift Stevens over El-Sayed in the Democratic primary.
Michigan US Senate race: Rogers and El-Sayed urge turnout
Rogers is a former congressman and close ally of US President Donald Trump.
President Trump has repeatedly called El-Sayed a jihadist and a nasty guy.
A final New York Times/Siena poll placed El-Sayed 11 points ahead of Rogers going into the election.
Opinion: What made Haley Stevens turn on El-Sayed
El-Sayed disinvited Haley Stevens from a campaign event at a Black church with Representative Jim Clyburn.
Half of Stevens' staff resigned after her endorsement of Rogers.
Tim Dunn donated $5 million of a $23 million campaign war chest for Rogers.
Asra Nomani: Muslim reformers reject 'fire will rise' warning if El-Sayed loses
A Fox News Digital review identified 70 Muslim groups and influencers supporting El-Sayed's political orbit.
Ali did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Dalia Ziada is the Washington, D.C., director at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.
Justin Amash says Mike Rogers 'would be more dangerous in the US Senate' than Abdul El-Sayed
Rep. Haley Stevens lost the Democratic Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed.
Justin Amash voted to impeach President Donald Trump in late 2019.
Justin Amash said he did not vote for Abdul El-Sayed or Mike Rogers in Michigan's U.S. Senate race.
“In this world — the real world, not the imaginary one that partisan pundits on the right and left live in — Rogers poses a far greater threat to individual liberty and the Constitution than Sanders. Moreover, it’s not just that Rogers is awful here; it’s that Sanders is actually much better on these issues than the median member of Congress.”
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate race, becomes first Muslim US senator
Abdul El-Sayed served as executive director of Detroit's Health Department and later as director of the Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veteran Services.
El-Sayed is set to win more than 52 percent of the vote with more than 95 percent of votes tallied.
Vice President JD Vance described Abdul El-Sayed as a "psychopath".
“Michiganders, we want our taxes spent here, for schools here, and healthcare here, and infrastructure here. We don’t want our money sent to do apartheid or genocide or war.”
Abdul El-Sayed's Senate campaign pitch for Michigan vote
El-Sayed states that Mike Rogers' net worth increased to $14.6 million after leaving Congress.
El-Sayed states that his campaign has held over 700 events in over 120 cities.
Mike Rogers is Abdul El-Sayed's opponent in the Senate race.
Democrats rally around El-Sayed one day before midterms
El-Sayed has opposed military support to Israel and argued that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed the US into the Iran war.
The advocacy group Michigan Jews for Democracy has backed El-Sayed.
Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
Trump launches racist diatribe against Abdul El-Sayed at Iowa rally
Abdul El-Sayed told Hayley Stevens to stay away from a campaign event they were supposed to appear at together.
Donald Trump said Congress would have to get a special metal detector for Abdul El-Sayed if he were elected.
Chuck Schumer condemned Hayley Stevens's defection in the race.
“And you know what this country needs? A little apple pie. We don’t need the communists or jihadists, the Muslim Brotherhood. We need apple pie. He’s apple pie. He’ll be good.”
Muhammad Ali's daughter and grandson endorse Abdul El-Sayed
Khalilah Ali is the daughter of Muhammad Ali.
Khalilah Ali and her son endorsed Abdul El-Sayed's run for the US Senate.
Jacob Ali-Wertheimer is the son of Khalilah Ali.
Opinion: Abdul El-Sayed says males in girls' sports is manufactured issue (Fox News)
Mike Rogers posted a clip of El-Sayed's answer on X, prompting widespread viral criticism against the Democrat.
El-Sayed said people manufacture social issues to distract from economic problems.
The U.S. Education Department announced on June 18 that it was opening Title IX investigations into Ann Arbor Public Schools, Monroe Public Schools, and Chippewa Valley School District over allegations concerning athletic participation and locker-room access based on gender identity.
Abdul El-Sayed's silence over mother's FBI questioning raises transparency concerns
El-Sayed said he has never been and will never be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Abdul El-Sayed is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
In 2008, IARA was shut down by the federal government in connection with alleged violations of federal sanctions and terrorism-related financing restrictions.
“Michiganders cannot trust Abdul El-Sayed. He lies about his physician credentials, his family life, and about how much his disastrous policies will cost Michigan's families,”
Haley Stevens advised to stay away from Abdul El-Sayed campaign events
El-Sayed said in a statement that Stevens seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent heavily to defeat El-Sayed in the primary.
Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow told CNN she has no idea what Haley Stevens is doing.
“This is a moment where we have to recognize the stakes. People are not talking about ads. They are not talking about Haley Stevens. They are talking about the price of gas and groceries.”
Michigan race: Abdul El-Sayed vs Mike Rogers
Most recent polls have shown El-Sayed with a narrow lead over Rogers ranging from four to seven percentage points.
The Senate seat is currently held by retiring Democrat Gary Peters.
Nearly $300 million has been spent on Michigan's Senate race.
Abdul El-Sayed disinvites Haley Stevens from Michigan Senate rally
Stevens and El-Sayed were opponents in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary.
The report that El-Sayed disinvited Stevens was published by Politico on Friday night, citing two people familiar with the decision.
Abdul El-Sayed's campaign requested that Haley Stevens not attend a campaign event alongside him on Sunday.
“I didn’t want to, but I kind of have to, otherwise I’m going to become a charity.”
Pelosi calls Mamdani and El-Sayed past comments on Israel 'concerning'
Mamdani said any state that privileges one religion over another is one he cannot support.
El-Sayed has repeatedly declined to affirm whether Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state.
El-Sayed said he struggled to answer whether Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state and suggested the idea was not consistent with liberal values in the United States.
Democrats rally around El-Sayed as Trump escalates attacks
Obama's appearance in Detroit occurred on the first day of early voting and was his first public show of support for El-Sayed since the August primary.
Former vice-president Kamala Harris appeared with El-Sayed in Detroit last month.
A protest by white nationalist and January 6 rioter Jake Lang took place outside Obama's Detroit rally.
“You know who else doesn’t agree with everything I do? Michelle Obama.”
El-Sayed speaks to Al Jazeera as religion becomes flashpoint in Senate race
The Senate race vote is on November 3.
Abdul El-Sayed is Muslim.
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate in Michigan's Senate race.
US Muslims concerned as hate attacks target Abdul El-Sayed
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib represents Dearborn and parts of Detroit.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr incorrectly claimed that Arabs do not produce literature or science and 'don't win Nobel Prizes'.
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan.
“I think the best thing we can do, the best response, is to send Abdul to the US Senate, somebody who’s got two doctorates, someone who is a son of this country, a son of the state, someone who is the captain of his high school team … I think that that’s the best response that we can give fascism.”
Abdul El-Sayed's regulatory plan for AI companies
A Quinnipiac poll found that 73% of Americans are concerned about AI posing a threat to human existence.
El-Sayed released a companion proposal called AI Under Control in October 2026.
A June report found that roughly 69% of American adults support AI companies transferring 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund.
El-Sayed blames American guns for rise of Mexican cartels
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will identify and disrupt any cartel actor who threatens U.S. security or the integrity of the U.S. financial system.
The Trump administration sanctioned 21 individuals and 25 entities linked to Los Mayos, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, through the Treasury Department.
El-Sayed said American-manufactured guns are responsible for a lot of the cartels.
Laura Loomer and Trump allies amplified Muslim Brotherhood lie about Abdul El-Sayed
Rogers, as House intelligence committee chair in 2012, told Reuters the US government should be wary of the Muslim Brotherhood but could engage with some members.
El-Sayed told NBC News that his half-sister's tweets did not contradict his statement that he has no ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Egyptian journalist Hossam el-Hamalawy confirmed that the letter El-Sayed signed makes no reference to the Muslim Brotherhood.
“I see the American right wing borrowing directly from the playbook of Arab authoritarian regimes before, during and after the Arab Spring. These regimes have consistently sought to portray demands for democratic change as inherently Islamist-driven, suggesting that any challenge to authoritarian rule would inevitably pave the way for reactionary Islamist forces or even terrorism.”
El-Sayed rallygoers urge major change and cash handouts amid cost crisis
El-Sayed and Mike Rogers' campaigns did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
El-Sayed is running to succeed retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters.
El-Sayed has bristled at media questions about his criticism of Israel.
“We don't want to see our money being taken away from us. We want to see our money being used for the children here, for the elderly here and for those in need. With our grocery prices and gas prices being the way they are, we shouldn't be fighting stupid wars anymore, as he keeps saying.”
El-Sayed voters on guaranteed income programs
Detroit is among more than 100 U.S. municipalities that have experimented with basic-income-style pilots since 2018.
Abdul El-Sayed is the Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee.
El-Sayed appeared at the "Guaranteed Income Now" summit in Detroit.
Haley Stevens criticized by fellow Democrats for not backing El-Sayed
El-Sayed defeated Stevens by 1% in the Michigan primary, winning 48.5% of the vote to Stevens' 47.5%.
McMorrow received 4% of the vote in the Michigan primary.
Haley Stevens was backed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during the primary.
Trump escalates attacks on El-Sayed as Michigan Senate race tightens
El-Sayed is a former Detroit health official.
Bishara Bahbah, a founder of Arab Americans for Trump, condemned Trump's remarks as racist.
Donald Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a rally on Sunday.
Political attacks on Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his response
Researchers have suggested this midterm elections campaign has seen the most concentrated wave of Islamophobic rhetoric in US electoral politics since the aftermath of 9/11.
Robert F Kennedy Jr is Trump's health and human services secretary.
JD Vance made the remarks about El-Sayed and rioters at a campaign stop in Howell, Michigan.
Abdul El-Sayed responds to Trump's anti-Muslim attacks
Trump suggested El-Sayed should have to go through a metal detector before entering the Senate.
El-Sayed held a news conference in Detroit on Monday to respond to Trump's attacks.
El-Sayed is in a close Senate race with former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers.
Trump rallies for Mike Rogers in Michigan, escalates attacks on El-Sayed
Rogers claimed at the rally that El-Sayed is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The average price of one gallon of gasoline in Michigan on Sunday was $4.83, up from $2.91 before the start of the war with Iran.
As a congressman, Rogers voted in 2012 to continue US aid to Egypt under Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi.
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,”
Obama rallies for El-Sayed in Michigan ahead of midterms
Obama said that Abdul shares his values.
Obama criticized the Trump administration over the US-Israel war on Iran.
Obama said that El-Sayed is as Michigan as it gets.
“After two years of chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence, the likes of which we have not seen in the modern era, you get a chance to say, ‘Enough is enough’.”
NBA champion criticizes Obama's pitch to Michigan voters
Abdul El-Sayed is running against Mike Rogers.
Kuzma is from Flint, Michigan.
Kuzma wrote that 1 in 4 Black people in Michigan are below the poverty line.
Mike Rogers clashes with Kristen Welker over El-Sayed Muslim Brotherhood controversy
El-Sayed's half-sister Eman Abdelhadi acknowledged in a 2012 post that their family has long been connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mike Rogers is the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan.
El-Sayed denied that he or his family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood during an Oct. 11 appearance on Meet the Press.
El-Sayed refuses questions about Muslim Brotherhood letter
El-Sayed stated during the interview that he has never been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Washington Free Beacon first reported on the 2012 letter last month.
Bret Baier pressed El-Sayed on a 2012 letter addressed to the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt that was signed by El-Sayed.
Michigan newspaper refuses to seek comment from Mike Rogers over attacks on El-Sayed
Neavling said Rogers' campaign keeps targeting El-Sayed's Muslim faith.
Social media posts surfaced in which El-Sayed's half-sister alleged that members of their family, including their mother, had been involved with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Bridge Michigan found that El-Sayed supported the Green New Deal's clean energy goals but had not directly advocated a ban on gas-powered vehicles.
“When Metro Times asked about those claims for its Oct. 8 report, Rogers’ campaign declined to answer specific questions. It instead defended his record and repeated an unfounded allegation that El-Sayed received money from terrorist organizations,”
El-Sayed clashes with GOP rival Rogers in fiery Senate debate
Rogers said Congress should ban the ability for Chinese automakers to build cars in the United States.
Some members of Michigan's Jewish community have openly disavowed El-Sayed over his rhetoric on the war in Gaza and positions on Israel.
Rogers split with Trump on trade, calling the president's tariffs a mixed bag and saying tariffs on Canada may have been not well thought through.
Fox News roundup: El-Sayed/Rogers debate and more top headlines
Ilhan Omar addressed longstanding rumors that she married her brother.
El-Sayed and Rogers clashed over the Muslim Brotherhood, Trump, and guns.
Michigan voters closely divided between Rogers and El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democrat candidate in the Michigan US Senate race.
At an event in Detroit, one voter questioned why El-Sayed would not say his real name.
Mike Rogers is the Republican candidate in the Michigan US Senate race.
Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers final debate in Michigan
Rogers called this month for an end to the trade war with Canada.
El-Sayed's mother, Fatten Elkomy, was never accused of wrongdoing.
Rogers said the issue was about ideology, not El-Sayed's right to pray as he chooses.
Michigan Senate debate: El-Sayed and Rogers clash over Muslim Brotherhood, Trump, and guns
Donald Trump was expected to campaign in Michigan on the Sunday following the debate.
Rogers appealed to supporters of Haley Stevens, whom El-Sayed defeated in the Democratic primary.
El-Sayed stated during the debate that he does not believe ICE is needed.
“You had compassion for them in delivering these children, but then you support quotas. They’re going to have people taken away. Hutchinson, Kansas, I was there. There was a preschool teacher arrested in front of her children,”
Rogers campaigns on inroads with Black and Jewish voters against El-Sayed
El-Sayed won the Democratic primary by about a point and a half.
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan.
More than $60m in outside money, mostly from pro-Israel groups, went to El-Sayed's primary rival Haley Stevens.
“What are you implying? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?”
'Pod Save America' hosts warn El-Sayed over Muslim Brotherhood questions
Tommy Vietor agreed that El-Sayed's tone could have been better.
Former Obama staffers host the 'Pod Save America' podcast.
Jon Lovett said El-Sayed should stop fighting with the audience member and speak to people who are not asking the question.
Rogers warns Michigan voters against El-Sayed's 'extreme' agenda ahead of election
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic opponent in the Michigan Senate race.
El-Sayed's campaign could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital for comment.
Rogers participated in a town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday.
Heckler of El-Sayed identified as son of Republican adviser paid for influencer marketing
America Next is a 501(c)(4) non-profit that shares a Baton Rouge office suite with Breakthrough LLC.
Pennsylvania business records list Timmy Teepell as a director of Sean Feucht’s ministry.
Donald Trump has said without evidence that Abdul El-Sayed is “100%” Muslim Brotherhood.
“What are you implying? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?”
El-Sayed says Trump's attacks on his faith distract from pain he's causing
El-Sayed was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan, to Egyptian immigrant parents.
Michigan households have seen an average additional cost of $5,600 due to tariffs since January 2025, the most of any state, according to a study by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
El-Sayed said he does not consider Israel to be a friend to the U.S.
The View co-hosts defend El-Sayed comparing himself to JFK over Muslim Brotherhood scrutiny
El-Sayed was asked at a recent town hall whether he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, and he did so but objected to the question.
Sunny Hostin said that Trump called El-Sayed a jihadist.
"The View" co-hosts defended Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over his comparison of questions about his family's alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to scrutiny former President John F. Kennedy faced over his Catholic faith.
Man who heckled Abdul El-Sayed identified as former Josh Hawley aide
El-Sayed will campaign with Barack Obama in Detroit on Saturday 24 October.
Trump said at a White House lunch that El-Sayed was '100%' Muslim Brotherhood and called him a 'fraud'.
Thomas Teepell joined Josh Hawley's office as an intern in 2023 and rose to operations director before leaving in February.
CBS reporter apologizes and deletes post praising Abdul El-Sayed heckler
El-Sayed accused Tommy of assuming he held "dual loyalties" because of his Muslim background.
A CBS News spokesperson declined to comment further on the incident, citing Crawford's statement.
Jan Crawford wrote on X that she deleted the tweet because it was a violation of CBS News standards and apologized.
Abdul El-Sayed invokes JFK to dismiss questions over alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties
The allegations involving El-Sayed's relatives have not established that he personally belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood.
El-Sayed's campaign accused Republican opponent Mike Rogers of using the controversy to attack El-Sayed's faith.
El-Sayed said he was not raised by his mother and never had conversations with her about the Muslim Brotherhood.
AOC transfers $1 million to Michigan candidate El-Sayed
El-Sayed raised $30.6 million from July 1 to September 30, compared to Rogers' $9.6 million.
Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed El-Sayed and donated $250,000 to his campaign.
A large portion of political attacks against El-Sayed have focused on his Muslim faith, his Egyptian heritage, and support for Palestine.
Trump invokes Muslim Brotherhood label against Senate candidate El-Sayed
Donald Trump said Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood is designated a terrorist organisation by the US.
Abdul El-Sayed is a Michigan Senate candidate.
Abdul El-Sayed alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties surface after NBC interview
NBC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Eman Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 post that her family has long been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
A Brookings Institution report stated that Alexandria University had strong Muslim Brotherhood activity in the 1970s.
Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats must win by massive numbers to counter GOP election denial
El-Sayed initially condemned the synagogue attack but added that 'hurt people hurt people,' noting some of the attacker's family members had died days earlier in airstrikes in Lebanon.
El-Sayed's Republican opponent is former Rep. Mike Rogers.
A super PAC called Together for Michigan began airing ads centered on El-Sayed's remarks about the synagogue attack.
Abdul El-Sayed urges Democrats to win by massive numbers against Trump election denial
Trump's second presidency began in early 2025.
Trump has baselessly maintained that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by fraudsters.
A New York Times and Siena University poll found Democratic Senate candidates leading in Alaska, Ohio and Texas.
“Donald Trump has already threatened to do what he did in 2020, which is deny the outcomes of an election,”
Why Abdul El-Sayed might not be winning Black voters
El-Sayed's campaign website's Priorities section does not mention the names of minority groups or the words 'racial' and 'racism'.
El-Sayed's campaign website focuses on immigration and his pledge to abolish ICE without mentioning the words 'Hispanics' or 'Latinos'.
El-Sayed is Muslim and would become the first Muslim in the United States Senate if elected.
Abdul El-Sayed feuds with Dave Portnoy over Michigan cheating allegation comments
El-Sayed graduated from the University of Michigan.
In August 2025, the NCAA announced multimillion-dollar financial penalties, recruiting restrictions and four additional years of probation after finding an impermissible scouting scheme involving former staffer Connor Stalions.
El-Sayed mocked Dave Portnoy's body and athleticism in a post on X.