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Former President Barack Obama is scheduled to campaign for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month. Meanwhile, reports from right-leaning outlets focus on controversies surrounding El-Sayed, including past remarks on dual citizenship and campaign associations.
Outlets across the political spectrum report that former President Barack Obama will campaign with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
Left-leaning and center outlets like Politico, Roll Call, and PBS NewsHour focus on Obama and El-Sayed's upcoming campaign rally and broader midterm strategy. Right-leaning outlets such as The Daily Wire, Breitbart, and the Washington Examiner shift the focus to investigations and controversies regarding El-Sayed's past statements on dual citizenship and his campaign stops with other prominent Democrats.
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El-Sayed asks Trump to come to Michigan: ‘Your candidate can’t speak for himself’
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed challenged President Trump on Monday to campaign in the Wolverine State. “Please, I’m asking you, ‘Come to Michigan.’ Alright, your — clearly — your candidate can’t speak for himself. He doesn’t have anything to say. Clearly, you are the answer, and you should tell everybody why they should imagine…
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The Detroit stop adds to the former president’s campaign push for Democrats ahead of the midterms.
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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed challenged President Trump on Monday to campaign in the Wolverine State. “Please, I’m asking you, ‘Come to Michigan.’ Alright, your — clearly — your candidate can’t speak for himself. He doesn’t have anything to say. Clearly, you are the answer, and you should tell everybody why they should imagine…
Former President Barack Obama will headline a campaign rally in Detroit later this month, bringing some Democratic star power to a key battleground. Michigan is playing host to an open Senate race seen as pivotal to Democratic hopes of flipping the Senate. Polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in a tight contest against Republican former Rep. Mike…
Obama is upping involvement in the midterm election. He taped two dozen ads last week for Democratic candidates for governor and Senate that will be released in the coming days and weeks.
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Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once claimed to hold Egyptian citizenship, newly unearthed video shows. El-Sayed made the claim in 2016 when he spoke at the GlobeMed conference in Detroit, according to a video found by the Washington Free Beacon. The Michigan Democrat’s campaign previously said that El-Sayed has never been a dual citizen…
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed announced new campaign stops that will feature Democratic fundraising heavyweights former President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). With less than 30 days until the general election, the Michigan Democrat is pulling out all the stops. He will be…
Abdul El-Sayed has quietly campaigned three times this year with a Michigan-based cleric who served as an Iranian Navy propaganda apparatchik in the 1980s and as a high-ranking official at Iran's Martyrs Foundation, now sanctioned by the U.S. government for funneling money to Hezbollah and paying stipends to the families of suicide bombers.
"Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez privately gushed that if Michigan Senate hopeful Dr. Abdul El-Sayed wins his race, the floodgates will be open for lefties in contests across the country.
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said he held dual citizenship during a 2016 speech in Detroit, contradicting his campaign’s current account that he has never been a citizen of both the United States and Egypt.
