SUNDAY NEWS ALERT:
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN BOTH MICHIGAN AND NATIONALLY IS TRYING TO OPENLY SABOTAGE AND THUS DESTROY ABDUL EL-SAYED’S CHANCES OF WINNING ON TUESDAY THROUGH THIS INCREDIBLY RACIST AND ISLAMOPHOBIC CAMPAIGN TO PUSH ABDUL AROUND AND TELL HIM WHAT TO DO LIKE HE WAS A 8 YEAR OLD CHILD! THIS IS SO FUCKING EGREGIOUS. I’M GLAD THAT ABDUL PUSHED BACK HARD AND TOLD HALEY STEVENS--WHO LOST TO HIM IN THE PRIMARIES!-- THAT SHE AND THE REST OF THE DP LEADERSHIP HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO DEMAND ABDUL DO AND SAY WHAT THEY WANT HIM TO ABOUT ISRAEL, THE GAZA GENOCIDE AND THE U.S. COMPLICITY IN IT.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?
Democratic Discord Intensifies in Michigan Senate Race
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, said Representative Haley Stevens, his former primary rival, should not attend Sunday’s party unity event in Detroit.
Published October 31, 2026
Updated November 1, 2026, 10:14 a.m. ET
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As candidates on Saturday barnstormed to make their final case in a midterm election that will decide control of Congress, a feud among top Democrats in Michigan escalated, throwing new doubt into a race that could determine which party controls the Senate.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee, said Saturday that his former primary rival, Representative Haley Stevens, should not come to a Detroit church service he was planning to attend Sunday. The event had been billed as a Democratic unity gathering.
“I don’t want any distractions,” Dr. El-Sayed told reporters after a campaign rally in Sterling Heights, a Macomb County suburb. “It seems as though other folks are more interested in making this race about things that it’s not about.”
The growing tensions between Dr. El-Sayed, a progressive, and Ms. Stevens, the more moderate representative he beat in the primary, have taken on an outsize importance at a time when strategists on both sides say that Democrats are within striking distance of winning a slim majority in the Senate. The fault line between them has differing stances on U.S. support for Israel.
The Democrats must flip at least four seats and retain all of their own to regain control of the upper chamber, and Michigan is seen as the best opportunity for Republicans to pick up a seat.
Dr. El-Sayed and his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, were campaigning a few miles apart in Macomb County, Mich., on the final Saturday before Election Day, as both parties fanned across the country in a late attempt to drive turnout and persuade undecided voters.
President Trump hosted six tele-rallies on Saturday targeting five states — Florida, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania — and is scheduled on Sunday to visit two others, Iowa and Kansas, which have recently become pivotal Senate battlegrounds.
On Friday, Ms. Stevens had demanded in an open letter that Dr. El-Sayed disavow a political ad from a left-wing political group suggesting U.S. support for Israel was a reason for high prices, which she said was antisemitic. That afternoon, Dr. El-Sayed fired back, accusing Ms. Stevens of “relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.”
Ms. Stevens has in recent weeks done a series of interviews criticizing Dr. El-Sayed for his stance on Israel — he has called the Israeli offensive in Gaza a genocide and has questioned U.S. military aid to the country. She has also repeatedly condemned his refusal to fully disavow the advertisement.
On Saturday, Dr. El-Sayed said: “I’ve already been clear that that ad was not made by me, and I do not agree with the contents of that ad.”
