Michigan Senate Race

Michigan state Rep. Noah Arbit has said he will not endorse Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate.

Arbit, 31, confirmed the decision in an interview with Jewish Insider published on September 30. He cited what he described as El-Sayed’s promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and affiliations with figures on the far left as reasons he would not support the nominee in the general election against his Republican challenger, former Rep. Mike Rogers.

“At the very least,” El-Sayed “aligns himself with people who want to purge the Democratic Party and American life of Zionists and, therefore, most Jews,” Arbit said. “That is unacceptable.”

When asked whether he considered El-Sayed antisemitic, Arbit referred to a speech he delivered on the Michigan House floor the previous week. In that speech he argued that the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Jewish prejudice had narrowed.

In the interview, he argued that the definition of antisemitism as simply hating Jews was limited because hating jews is not a prerequisite to advancing “conspiracy theories.”

He identified the center of El-Sayed’s primary campaign as what he called an antisemitic claim that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was the main obstacle to universal health care, better schools, and better roads in Michigan and nationally. “It’s just a dog whistle. It is a neat, clever argument. You take an unpopular policy and you say this is the reason why you don’t have nice things. It is the demagogue’s oldest trick in the book,” Arbit said.

The ad captures powerfully the stakes and the battle of ideas in the contest between the Republican Mike Rogers and the Islamist who received the Democratic nomination: Abdul El-Sayed. After a clip where El-Sayed says, “I’m not here to disavow people’s views, David Beamer’s voice comes in: “Some of you have heard about my son. His name was Todd Beamer. He had little boys age three-and-a-half and one-and-a-half. He had a wife, Lisa. She was five months pregnant. They took a vote and decided we need to fight back.” Then the voice of the operator who took Beamer’s call that dark day: “Then they responded to him and he said, ‘Okay, let’s roll’” David Beamer again: “Those 40 free people on Flight 93 were not victims. They were killed in action. When I hear anyone suggest America deserves 9/11, my question is, who would say that?” (Urban).

This race is a defining moment for America.

The latest poll has the jihadi up two points—47 to 45 (RCP).

This race is a defining moment for America.

The price of gas, el Sayed continued, is not the whole story. “When you see that number at the gas tank, yes, that hits you, but then the other number that we all got to pay attention to is the price of diesel. Nearly $6.81 today. That is an insane price. And you may not pump diesel, but diesel pumps you, and the way that diesel pumps you is that you’ve got to pay for the price of everything that gets shipped to the places that you buy it in. So when you look at that loaf of bread or you look at that gallon milk, that loaf of bread, that gallon milk is more expensive because of the diesel that it took to get that to you, you are now paying the price of. And that operates across our entire economy.”

And then the punch line: “So we’re getting hit at the gas pump to go buy our groceries and then we’re getting hit at the grocery store for the groceries that got there — all because of an insane war that we had no business fighting in the first place….”

The Detroit News endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race on Wednesday, pointing to his experience in Congress, the military, and the FBI.

“Mike Rogers is clearly the best choice for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat and gets our endorsement.”

The newspaper’s editorial board described Rogers as well prepared for the Senate after serving 14 years in the House, including a stint as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

Rogers, 63, left Congress in 2015 after representing a mid-Michigan district for seven terms. He later worked in the private sector, focusing on cybersecurity. He previously served as an Army officer and an FBI agent investigating organized crime.

The editorial argued that Rogers’s background and temperament could help him quickly become an influential member of the Senate.

The newspaper was critical of his Democrat opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, saying he lacks the government and policymaking experience needed for the job.

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed may have hurt himself in his campaign with his demeaning comments toward Second Lady Usha Vance, according to a new report.

El-Sayed, a darling of the far left who is seeking Michigan’s open Senate seat, trashed Usha Vance after her husband, Vice President J.D. Vance, slammed El-Sayed for saying opposition to Sharia law was based on white supremacy, as noted by Newsmax.

“I’d love to go back in time and tell my papaw that there’s a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you’re a white supremacist,” Vance said, using his nickname for his grandfather. “That’s not my papaw’s Democratic Party, my friends.”

El-Sayed had to go lower, asking on social media, “So do we think J.D. is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…,” according to the New York Post.

The outlet said the remark threatens to alienate the progressive wunderkind’s standing among Michigan’s 130,000 Indian-Americans, as well as female voters.

Michigan is third in the nation in female voter turnout at 69 percent.

“I have to admit, I kind of laughed,” Usha Vance said when asked about El-Sayed’s comment. “They have never been anything but incredibly loving.”

Usha Vance responds to Abdul El-Sayed’s dig about whether JD Vance would take her “back in time to meet Papaw.”

The second lady says she laughed off the far-left candidates comment about their personal lives, saying she’s always felt at home with her husband’s Ohio family.… pic.twitter.com/cRkinyUKgg

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 25, 2026

In Michigan, you don’t have to wait for the ballots to hit the streets for the shenanigans to start in the hotly contested Senate race that pits Hasan Piker’s BFF Abdul El-Sayed against Republican Mike Rogers, a former U.S. congressional representative and a military veteran. In two separate investigations, the Washington Free Beacon has exposed some questionable tactics the Democrats appear to be using to trick the electorate into thinking El-Sayed is someone he’s not. The whole mess is reminiscent of Soviet-style communist propaganda tactics.

The first involves allegations that the El-Sayed campaign paid a black pastor $82,500 to host the controversial Democrat candidate at a “clergy round table” in order to try to shore up the black vote for the campaign.

The second investigation centers on revelations that a “Soros-funded fake news site falsely identified Abdul El-Sayed as ‘Veteran’” in a mailer that was sent to voters.

On the matter of that pseudo church donation, the Free Beacon reported that when El-Sayed showed up at that “’clergy round table’ with a black Detroit pastor to whom the El-Sayed campaign has quietly paid $82,500 for ‘strategic consulting,’” he did so after realizing that black voters aren’t all that into him.

That is Sayed’s argument for sex change child mutilation surgeries. As if circumcision is the same as castration.

🚨 WTF?! Abdul El- Sayed says CIRCUMCISION is the same thing as SEX CHANGES FOR MINORS

JESSE: “So you think it’s okay for a parent to SLASH his kids dingaling off?! You think that’s okay?!”

ABDUL: “Are you circumcised, Jesse?”

JESSE: “Uhh yeah, that’s a PERSONAL QUESTION,… pic.twitter.com/Znb3ix0ToD

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 25, 2026

It’s safe to say that most Americans love dogs. The relationship between those lovable mutts and their people is like nothing else; there is no other domesticated animal that associates with us not by our choice, but theirs, the way dogs do. They are faithful companions, loyal helpers and guardians, and they love us without reservation. Whenever anyone proclaims “you can’t buy love,” it’s a safe bet they’ve never had a puppy.

In some cultures, though, our traditional love for Canis lupus familiaris isn’t shared. Which brings us to the current Democrat candidate for a Michigan Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, and his tenure as Detroit’s health director. During this stint, El-Sayed was responsible for, among other things, Detroit’s animal control department, and his handling of that department prompted an employee to describe it as a “dog slaughterhouse.”

El-Sayed’s campaign, of course, is touting a significant improvement in the shelter’s live-release rate.

Detroit Animal Care and Control’s (DACC) live-release rate was roughly 20% to 26% when El-Sayed inherited the operation in late 2015 but climbed to about 61% to 62% by late 2016 — an improvement his campaign points to in arguing that the raw number of animals euthanized during his tenure obscures a turnaround from the dire conditions and euthanasia rates he inherited. The Daily Mail reported that records covering the period surrounding El-Sayed’s tenure showed 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized, with 1,056 dogs and 29 cats getting euthanized in the first full calendar year DACC was under El-Sayed’s Health Department.