The legacy component of America’s Democrat party took a solid blow this week when voters picked an extremist, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, as their candidate for Senate in the race looming in Michigan.
Even CNN, left-leaning as it is, “was just forced to admit” that the result “is putting Michigan in play for MAGA and Mike Rogers.”
After all, the candidate for the Democrat party “of working people,” failed to win in any of the 15 counties in the state with the lowest share of college degrees. His victory came from the votes from “elites.”
El-Sayed had been projected to win the primary by 10 points, but barely eked down a win by fractions of points.
🚨 WOW! Even CNN was just forced to admit that Abdul El Sayed (D) is putting MICHIGAN IN PLAY for MAGA and Mike Rogers (R)
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 6, 2026
"He won 0 OF 15 COUNTIES with the lowest share of college degrees...he did NOT win working class areas."
"DOWN we go into Lake Michigan...Mike Rogers… pic.twitter.com/OGQLgvjVhf
El-Sayed immediately was hit with a questions about money, some $115,000 donated to him from individuals who worked with, work for, or were in leadership roles for CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
That problem comes because CAIR has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas.
Further, he immediately was the target of a Republican ad that linked to him his friend, who said America “deserved” 9/11.
An El-Sayed’s endorser, his “bestie boo, streamer and nepo-nephew Hasan Piker,” dropped a foul-mouth rant in which he seemed unable to complete a sentence without multiple uses of the F-word, calling those who didn’t support El-Sayed “unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s***.'”
An NRSC ad pointed out El-Sayed called himself “dangerous,” and cited his pledge of support for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a “designated foreign terrorist group.”
President Donald Trump was pleased with the choice by the “Dumocrats.”
“Great news for the Republican Party. El-Sayed, a Communist loser who hates Jews and Israel, is the projected winner in his race with the Socialist. As usual, the Polls were way off on this one. She was not expected to do nearly as well as she did. Now, the Dumocrats crazy policies will only get worse!”
The doubts about El-Sayed’s competency for the race came from no less that Mark Penn, a veteran political operative for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
He responded to questions about whether Michigan voters who supported El-Sayed’s competitor, Haley Stevens, will be sticking with the party or defecting because of his extremism.
He noted, “The question is whether or not a lot of the moderate Democrats who were for Stevens will say, ‘I just won't go there, I will defect from my party.’ Is it possible to find 5% that will do that? It is highly likely that you're gonna find 5% of those Stevens voters who are going to switch to the other side, and that alone would give a margin of victory to Rogers.”
Moderate Democrats in the state, like Rep. Hillary Scholten, already have confirmed they cannot support El-Sayed.
Then there’s Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who is on record saying he’s not willing to “unify” with El-Sayed.
Fetterman told CNN he cannot come together with someone “willing to embrace people that love Hamas, or that thinks America deserved 9/11.”
Fetterman warned El-Sayed, “has like a really like a little-man syndrome kind of energy. And now he was really arrogant in that race. And now he have just found out that, you know, less than a majority of Democrats want him.”
He warned polling shows the Senate seat could be taken by Rogers.
A commentary by Ingrid Jacques at USA Today said El-Sayed now “has to sell his progressive message to voters statewide.”
Those include defunding police, abolishing ICE and more.
“Those positions may play well in a Democratic primary. In a general election, they’re exactly the kind of thing Rogers needs to make Michigan reconsider how much it likes this ‘momentum,'” the commentary said.
“Rogers can show how El-Sayed embraces positions more aligned with the New York and California Democrats than the more grounded and commonsense policies generally associated with moderate, Midwestern Democrats," Dennis Darnoi, a Michigan Republican political adviser, said.
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten confirmed that El-Sayed’s win may have reduced the Democrats’ chances of winning the Michigan seat.
Enten said, “You know, once El-Sayed became the favorite for that nomination, and now that he’s actually become the nominee, Democratic chances have fallen dramatically. But you can see it right here, Kalshi prediction odds. Take a look here. Chance to win the Michigan Senate race. You go back to April at this point in the month, Dems had a 79% chance. Look how that number has fallen dramatically. Down we go into Lake Michigan. Now, we’re talking about just a 59% chance, while Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee — look at this. Twenty-one percent chance basically doubling, now up to a 41% chance.”
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