Michigan Senate race 2026

As printed Sep 13

“I’m not a socialist…I’m just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works.”

MSNBC Trump’s midterms convention highlighted Republicans’ favorite new coded smear ›

Disputes Sep 13

“nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople”

Associated Press At the GOP convention, speakers single out Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his faith ›

Supports Sep 1

“He can’t condemn his running mate Hasan Piker because they’re in total lockstep, and now he’s degraded the second lady of the United States of America,”

MSNBC El-Sayed tells Michigan's Jewish Democrats he would "take it all the way back," and his campaign starts interviewing candidates for a Jewish liaison job ›

Disputes Sep 5

El-Sayed said he struggled with the question of whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state, arguing that the formulation raised questions about what constitutes a Jewish state.

The Algemeiner El-Sayed apologizes twice in two days to Michigan Jewish Democrats, and Nessel honors him without endorsing him ›

In their own words Aug 3

“The idea that somehow we are going to use the specter of anti-Semitism to defend what a foreign government is doing actually has does a deep disservice to the well-being of Jewish Americans in this country.”

Middle East Eye The Michigan primary ›

Supports Sep 27

“The war with Iran needs to end and end quickly.”

The Dispatch Iowa's Ashley Hinson and Michigan's Mike Rogers call for the Iran war to end ›

Disputes Aug 30

“a win-win-win for us”

Jacobin Six months into the Iran war, Trump swaps bombs for sanctions, and Iran's president says the gasoline is not coming in ›

As printed Aug 1

“the country’s top infectious disease expert has to routinely spar with another doctor in the Senate over basic science around getting vaccinated or wearing a mask in the pandemic.”

Daily Wire ›

As printed Jul 30

“If you look at where the science and where the science has been. The CDC itself has suggested that we ought to shut things down. And we know that shutdowns in the past have been successful whether it was in the Spring or the Fall. This is a responsibility.”

The Daily Wire El-Sayed Pushed For Renewed COVID Lockdowns, Fines For Businesses That Defied Them ›

As printed Aug 11

“Differences that we hashed out are so much smaller than the similarities that we share: a responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump and the ways that he’s used his power for his own gain, for his family’s finances, rather than to improve your family’s finances,”

CNN ›

As printed Aug 3

“The disease is this system that allows billionaires and corporations and special interests like AIPAC to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us.”

Al Jazeera How much has AIPAC spent against Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed? And why? ›

As printed Aug 13

“When it comes to the question of capitalism, allocating capital based on supply and demand at the level at which it’s supposed to work, where you have free entry and exit into markets, you know, I support that idea.”

World Socialist ›

As printed Aug 5

“You’re seeing that kind of resonance here in Michigan for sure. And I’m not surprised that you’re seeing that in New York, too. Government ought to be available to set an equal playing field for everybody and to offer those basic things that everybody needs and deserves,”

Fox News ›

As printed Aug 7

“They’re gonna point at me, they’re gonna point at my name, like, ‘Wow, he’s different.’ That’s the best you got? You can’t actually talk about what you want to do? My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is not taking us to war.”

MSNBC The right-wing playbook against Abdul El-Sayed centers on his race ›

As printed Aug 6

“My commitment to our Black communities didn’t start because I wanted to come and take a photo op. It started when I left my tenure-track job at an Ivy League school to come back to rebuild the health department in the city of Detroit, which is the largest majority-Black city in the country,”

TheGrio Who is Abdul El-Sayed? Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee makes his case to Black voters ›