Abdul El-Sayed won Michigans Senate Democratic primary Tuesday over Congresswoman Haley Stevens. El-Sayed had a 1% win in a race that featured a third candidate, Mallory McMorrow, who had dropped out but who nevertheless polled around 4% of the total vote.
Mike Rogers is the GOP nominee in the fall against El-Sayed. In 2024, Rogers â a very respected, former seven-term Congressman from Michigan who served as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee â tallied 2,693,680 votes, or 48.30% of the total electorate in the state in a Senate race he lost to Elissa Slotkin. Republicans need only turn out the same electorate as voted in 2024 and Rogers will win the 2026 race.
That sort of turnout is usually, however, a big lift in a non-presidential year, because statewide elections are not as exciting to the average American as presidential contests.
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But Michigan in 2026 may prove to be the exception to the “exciting race” rule because El-Sayed is a radical leftist, an Islamist-supporting extremist whose far-from-the-mainstream positions may energize an off-year electorate the way a presidential campaign charges turnout every four years. El-Sayed is so extreme that he held back from commenting on Irans Ayatollah Khameneis elimination on the first day of the U.S.-Iran battle for fear of upsetting whatever small number of Michiganders who were sad that the American-killing fanatic who ordered the murder of tens of thousands of Iranians in January had himself died on February 28.
That El-Sayed hates the state of Israel is not open for debate. He does. He also routinely attacks Americans who support the state of Israel by repeatedly attacking the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is primarily, though not exclusively, made up of American Jews. El-Sayed, himself a Muslim, will probably energize the estimated quarter of a million Muslims in the Wolverine State as well as the Jewish population of approximately 120,000 people (about 1.2% of Michigans population). Most Jews and many non-Jews believe that El-Sayed is simply antisemitic, and certainly the most extreme mainstream party candidate to ever run for, much less serve in, the United States Senate.
El-Sayed will energize all sorts of demographics within the electorate, but given the polarization that follows in his wake, count on the national media camping across the state from now until November and covering every twist and turn in this campaign.
Count on Republicans across the country, as well as supporters of Israel who are not Republicans from all across the country helping Rogers raise funds for his campaign. His campaign website began to cook even before the El-Sayed primary victory was certain.
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