{"id":5471,"date":"2026-07-11T10:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T10:34:44","slug":"michigan-democrats-are-angry-at-their-party-abdul-el-sayed-thinks-he-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=5471","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Democrats are angry at their party. Abdul El-Sayed thinks he knows why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Key Democratic establishment figures believe Abdul El-Sayed will blow the party\u2019s chances of holding onto a critical Senate seat this fall. He is out to prove them wrong \u2014 and to show that they misunderstand what voters really crave.\n <\/p>

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\n Michigan\u2019s August 4 Democratic Senate primary is shaping up to be 2026\u2019s highest stakes showdown between the party\u2019s rising progressive insurgency and an establishment more focused on electability.\n <\/p>\n

\n After state Sen. Mallory McMorrow exited the race on Sunday, the primary is now a head-to-head, pitting El-Sayed, a former public health official backed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other prominent progressives, against Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate with a track record of winning on red turf. The Democratic nominee will face GOP ex-Rep. Mike Rogers in November.\n <\/p>\n

\n In El-Sayed\u2019s telling, viewing the race through that center vs. left lens misses the bigger picture that voters across the spectrum are frustrated with their leaders.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis ideology thing \u2014 people think too deeply into it,\u201d El-Sayed said in an interview with CNN shortly before taking the stage for a rally last week in Grand Rapids.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t think most voters walk around thinking where they stand on the ideological spectrum,\u201d he said. \u201cI think most voters are just being like, \u2018Damn, I can\u2019t afford my health care.\u2019 \u2018Damn, I\u2019m worried about losing my job.\u2019 \u2018Damn, this AI stuff feels scary. Who\u2019s going to do something about that?\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Those voters are alienated, he said, when politicians \u201ctalk to you about what you can\u2019t have and shouldn\u2019t fight for.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy job has been to show that if you\u2019re willing to be honest, direct, specific and fearless about fighting for people, you can build a movement,\u201d El-Sayed said.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The progressive flank is on a roll \u2014 driven in part by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani \u2014 with democratic socialists ousting three incumbent House members in deep-blue districts in New York and Colorado primaries in recent weeks. But the stakes in those races were nowhere near as high as Michigan, a perpetual battleground where Democrats almost certainly need to retain the seat of retiring Sen. Gary Peters to have a path to the net four-seat gain the party needs to win a Senate majority in November\u2019s midterm elections.\n <\/p>\n

\n Democrats in Washington worry that nominating El-Sayed, who is not a democratic socialist but aligns with them on many issues, would alienate enough moderates to jeopardize the race against Rogers.\n <\/p>\n

\n El-Sayed supports Medicare for All, wants to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and says the United States must cut off aid to Israel \u2014 a position that has made him a target of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, whose super PAC has pumped millions into ads boosting Stevens. He campaigned with pro-Palestinian Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who called Hamas a \u201clesser evil\u201d than Israel and once said that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11,\u201d though he later backed away from that comment and acknowledged it was \u201cinappropriate.\u201d El-Sayed deleted tweets calling for the defunding of police and also pushed that position in interviews in 2020, despite his recent claims that he had never done so.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a recent digital ad intended to boost El-Sayed with Democratic voters, the Senate GOP\u2019s campaign arm highlighted some of those positions and called El-Sayed \u201ctoo radical for Michigan.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n \u201cThe Republicans don\u2019t want to run against me, which is why they\u2019re propping up his campaign,\u201d Stevens told CNN after marching in a Fourth of July parade in East Grand Rapids.\n <\/p>\n

\n In their debate Tuesday night, the differences in style and philosophy between El-Sayed and Stevens were on display. Stevens repeatedly described herself as a \u201cworkhorse\u201d who gets things done in Washington, and suggested El-Sayed instead wants to be a \u201ccelebrity senator.\u201d El-Sayed shot back that special interests are \u201ctrying to buy a politician who\u2019s going to do their bidding instead of yours.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIf you want your politics dictated to you by AIPAC or Chuck Schumer, then I\u2019m not your guy,\u201d he said, referring to the Senate Democratic leader.\n <\/p>\n

\n El-Sayed isn\u2019t shy about his problems with Democratic leadership. He says he\u2019d support Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who has endorsed El-Sayed, over Schumer, who has signaled support for Stevens, for majority leader if the party wins 51 or more seats this fall.\n <\/p>\n

\n But he also says critics have the wrong idea about what it means to be electable, especially in the Donald Trump era.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI mean, Michigan went for Bernie, then Trump, then Biden, then Trump,\u201d he told CNN, recounting the state\u2019s results in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary and then the general elections in 2016, 2020 and 2024.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cFolks in the Midwest aren\u2019t known for being scattered. They\u2019re about as steady as they come,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cIt\u2019s just they keep going back to the buffet and not finding what they want. So if you can give them the thing they\u2019re looking for, which is someone who\u2019s going to offer some relief around the pain and fight like hell to do it \u2014 that\u2019s going to win.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Mamdani on the minds of Michiganders\n<\/h2>\n
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\n So far, the electoral splits between El-Sayed and Stevens appear to be similar to those that were on display a decade ago, when Sanders \u2014 backed by younger voters, progressives and Whites \u2014 narrowly edged Hillary Clinton, who was stronger among Black voters and moderates.\n <\/p>\n

\n Both are well-known in and around Detroit: Stevens represents its suburbs in Congress, and El-Sayed was Wayne County\u2019s health director from 2023 to 2025. In a race with well-known and well-funded candidates, Grand Rapids could be one of the few remaining pools of large numbers of undecided voters.\n <\/p>\n

\n In the parade in East Grand Rapids on Saturday, El-Sayed marched first \u2014 behind a large banner bearing his name, wearing an American flag-themed cowboy hat, a tight black V-neck T-shirt and dark jeans and tossing candy to children along the route.\n <\/p>\n

\n Stevens was minutes behind, in a tank top with stars and stripes and shorts, following a small boat built by a supporter, pulled by a truck and plastered with campaign signs \u2014 the \u201cVote Boat II.\u201d (The first Vote Boat, built to support Rep. Hillary Scholten, hadn\u2019t survived a Michigan winter, an aide said.) She waved a miniature American flag and carried a sign that said \u201cStevens and Scholten for West Michigan.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Bob Aardema, a 73-year-old retired attorney who lives in Grand Rapids, said he voted for Trump in 2020, but became an \u201cextreme never-Trumper\u201d after the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He said he likes both El-Sayed and Stevens but would \u201cbe very inclined to vote for Haley Stevens \u2014 thinking, you know, she\u2019s a little more centrist.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people that would want to vote Democratic, but they see what\u2019s going on lately in New York City with Mamdani,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t scare me, but it scares other people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He said he would vote for El-Sayed over Rogers in November if those are his choices. But, he added: \u201cI would think (El-Sayed) would not do as well as Haley Stevens in the general election.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Aaron Eddens, a 41-year-old college professor from Grand Rapids, said he thinks prioritizing electability \u201cis a losing battle\u201d for Democrats.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get rid of that. It comes from a place that says people don\u2019t deserve more,\u201d said Eddens, who wore an El-Sayed button as he attended the parade with his family.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m frustrated when Democrats are just like, \u2018Vote for us because we\u2019re not as bad as the other side,\u2019\u201d Eddens said. \u201cI don\u2019t like the electability argument at all.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Paul Fink, a 34-year-old professor from nearby Rockford, said he is \u201cabsolutely frustrated with the Democratic Party.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think the strategy has been completely off in the last several years, leaning more toward the middle and catering more toward undecided voters \u2026 instead of leaning into issues that I think people care about the most,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n He said his biggest priority is \u201cgetting money out of politics,\u201d and said doing that is El-Sayed\u2019s \u201clead point.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n His wife Jess Fink, a 29-year-old speech therapist, said she thinks about electability, \u201cbut I\u2019m more likely to just vote with who I think is the best candidate, regardless of that. It\u2019s not so much who will win.\u201d She said she\u2019s more interested in where the candidates stand on health care, education and the economy.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Finks both plan to vote in the Democratic primary but said they have not yet decided who they\u2019ll support.\n <\/p>

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\n Paul Fink, like Aardema, brought up Mamdani unprompted. But he didn\u2019t share the retired attorney\u2019s concerns about how the New York City mayor is being received and instead characterized him as a model.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think he\u2019s done a fantastic job rallying the base around issues that people really care about, but I guess he\u2019s also just really charismatic, right? And that connects well with people,\u201d Fink said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Stevens has lined up a broad range of Democratic establishment support \u2014 including Scholten, the Grand Rapids-area congresswoman and the only current Michigan House member to back her campaign.\n <\/p>\n

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\n She\u2019s also backed by a longtime former Michigan senator, Debbie Stabenow, state Attorney General Dana Nessel and Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor and US energy secretary. She has endorsements from EMILY\u2019s List and a raft of national figures that includes former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sens. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Chris Coons of Delaware.\n <\/p>\n

\n El-Sayed, meanwhile, is endorsed by the United Auto Workers union, as well as Sanders, Van Hollen, and a list of progressive House members that includes one Michigan House member \u2014 Rep. Rashida Tlaib \u2014 as well as California Rep. Ro Khanna, Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal and more.\n <\/p>\n

\n Brad Lander, a progressive who recently won a New York City congressional primary with Mamdani\u2019s backing, this week endorsed El-Sayed. It followed Ocasio-Cortez, an influential progressive who has been more cautious with her endorsements, announcing her support for El-Sayed earlier this month.\n <\/p>\n

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\n At El-Sayed\u2019s rally in Grand Rapids \u2014 where the crowd was dotted with Bernie Sanders hats, T-shirts and buttons \u2014 frustrations with the Democratic Party overall were as prominent as demands for progressive ideology.\n <\/p>\n

\n In interviews, several attendees brought up El-Sayed\u2019s support for Medicare for All. But it typically came after their complaints about how Democrats have responded to Trump\u2019s presidency.\n <\/p>\n

\n Brielle Denoyer, a 24-year-old fast food worker from Grand Rapids, said she is \u201csick of Democrats doing nothing and not actually taking a stand.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAnd they\u2019re all saying, \u2018Well, we\u2019re taking a stand against Trump,\u2019 and it\u2019s really just strongly worded tweets and letters and not actually anything that changes anything,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Christian Villagomez, a 30-year-old service worker in Wyoming, Michigan, said he is looking for \u201ca clean break from everything that has left the party in stagnation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n He said the argument that El-Sayed is less likely to win in November than Stevens is \u201ccomplete bupkis.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cVoter enthusiasm is undeniable here, and that\u2019s where it all stems \u2014 the trust between candidates and their constituents. To suggest otherwise is spitting in the face of reality,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Michelle Guzinski, a 52-year-old assistant director at a childcare center in Nunica, said she is \u201csick of this two-party politics.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe state of our country is scary, and I really want to see more people like him who want to give back to the communities and help people live decent lives,\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Wes Muraoka, a 41-year-old former pharmacy technician who is job-hunting in Grand Rapids, said he likes El-Sayed because \u201che\u2019s real.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe talks to you like a human being, which is rare,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not Democrat, I am not Republican, I\u2019m not independent, I\u2019m just a human being looking to make a change. So when I see Abdul as a person talking to us about change, talking to us about putting money back in our pocket, taking money out of politics \u2026 this is the kind of change we need.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n A rally attended by hundreds of El-Sayed\u2019s supporters is a limited window into a politically complicated state \u2014 one where Democrats have nightmares of Trump cracking the so-called \u201cblue wall\u201d twice, in 2016 and 2024, on the way to his two victories.\n <\/p>\n

\n It was in the middle of Trump\u2019s first term, 2018, that El-Sayed and Stevens \u2014 a pair of thirtysomething candidates \u2014 both first ran for office.\n <\/p>\n

\n That year, Stevens and fellow first-time candidate Elissa Slotkin both won seats previously held by Republicans \u2014 helping Democrats win a majority and marking the first time since the 1930s that no Republicans had represented Oakland County, which contains most of Detroit\u2019s northern suburbs, in the House. Slotkin now holds Michigan\u2019s other Senate seat.\n <\/p>\n

\n El-Sayed, meanwhile, ran for governor with the support of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 but finished a distant second, 22 percentage points behind Gretchen Whitmer in the Democratic primary. He went on to host a podcast, represent Sanders on a task force with Biden supporters focused on health care, and work as Wayne County\u2019s health director.\n <\/p>\n

\n While Stevens, now 43, tends to steer her speeches and interviews toward the work she\u2019s done, El-Sayed, 41, is much more brash. He brags that he\u2019s a counterpuncher unlike anything Rogers, the Republican, has ever seen. He is omnipresent \u2014 appearing in interviews, on podcasts, at rallies and across social media platforms constantly. His appetite for risk includes embracing figures like Piker in spite of the backlash. He\u2019s willing to make viewers cringe \u2014 occasionally posting on social media videos of himself and his supporters dancing and lip-syncing, including a video featuring a Taylor Swift song coinciding with the singer\u2019s wedding.\n <\/p>\n

\n He\u2019s also occasionally glib \u2014 as when he told Semafor that Stevens is \u201ca suit with a large AIPAC bank account\u201d and that he hopes \u201cmaybe they find some way to teach her how to string together two coherent sentences.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThat\u2019s just the kind of junk that turns people off, you know. We don\u2019t need to go there,\u201d Stevens said when asked by CNN about El-Sayed\u2019s comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n She said that \u201cobviously I knew how to speak for myself\u201d when she worked on the auto rescue task force during President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, worked for the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act during Biden\u2019s administration, and told Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a House hearing this spring that he should resign or be impeached over his vaccine skepticism.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think I\u2019ve put forward the ideas and the messages on this campaign that are going to bring us together and enable us to beat Mike Rogers in November,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cI flipped a Republican district in 2018, I\u2019ve held it in 2020, and I won those races by speaking directly to the hearts of Michiganders and what they expect and what they need from their lawmakers \u2014 which is decency, which is trust and delivery of results.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n El-Sayed has backed away from the personal tone in the days that followed his initial remark.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think Haley is very smart,\u201d he told CNN. Still, he said, she is backed by millions of dollars in AIPAC ad spending, and \u201cthose checks come with strings.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m gonna let them burn $50 million of their dollars and still beat their candidate and still come for them when I\u2019m in the US Senate,\u201d El-Sayed said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked about lessons he\u2019s learned since his first run, El-Sayed said the biggest changes have been his age and becoming a father to two daughters.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think being a dad has just shown me what it means to show up and unconditionally love somebody, and to show up and take care of them,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd over time I just got less precious about the critique and a lot more focused on the solution.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n That shift is key to how he envisions winning over Trump voters, he said at a question-and-answer session with attendees after his rally in Grand Rapids.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWith Trump supporters, we\u2019ve got to decide, do we want to get them to recant for what was done in the past, or do we want the partnership to build what we need in the future,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to ask how we make common cause with folks about building the things we need and deserve together.\u201d\n <\/p>

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