Michigan Senate race 2026

Disputes Oct 17

El-Sayed, a former Wayne County public health official from Ann Arbor, has said he has "no ties" to the Muslim Brotherhood.

USA Today Ocasio-Cortez sends El-Sayed $1 million as Vance calls him a "weasel" ›

Disputes Oct 17

“I got a front-row seat to what my life might have been had I not been born in America. So don't lecture me about America,”

CBS News Ocasio-Cortez sends El-Sayed $1 million as Vance calls him a "weasel" ›

Supports Oct 17

“We have all of the facts. I just wish the press would do their work and investigate the facts,”

USA Today Ocasio-Cortez sends El-Sayed $1 million as Vance calls him a "weasel" ›

Supports Oct 10

“Anybody that wants to help my campaign stop a guy who can’t condemn terrorism in our own country because he’s so close to the people who are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood”

NBC News Rogers asks if El-Sayed has family on a watchlist in Michigan's first Senate debate ›

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 ›

Supports Oct 10

“people can still keep their private insurance plans”

Jacobin Rogers asks if El-Sayed has family on a watchlist in Michigan's first Senate debate ›

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 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? ›

Qualifies Sep 1

“Of course it was a dumb statement, and of course I think Hasan himself would say that was a dumb statement,”

Washington Examiner 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 ›

As printed Aug 14

“They’re going to try and paint me as a certain thing, given my name. But I also think it’s important for us to recognize that America has a long history of embracing,”

MSNBC ›

Disputes Oct 17

“You get to pray any way you want, and I passionately believe that. It is about your ideology and how you think.”

CBS News Ocasio-Cortez sends El-Sayed $1 million as Vance calls him a "weasel" ›

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 ›