Abdul El-Sayed seeks to unite Democrats after winning Michigan's Senate primary
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Abdul El-Sayed narrowly beat Haley Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday amid backlash from Republicans. CBS News' Fin Gomez has more.
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Tuesday’s primary contest for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan has become a proxy fight over the Gaza war and a referendum on Israel supporters’ influence in Democratic politics. Democratic voters will decide whether to nominate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed,...
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed and centrist Rep. Haley Stevens are facing off Tuesday for the Democratic nomination for retiring Sen. Gary Peters's seat in Michigan. The winner will face off against former Rep. Mike Rogers, the presumptive Republican nominee.
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are in a close race in the Democratic primary for Michigan Senate. The winner of the primary will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Mainstream liberal Democrat Haley Stevens is facing off against Abdul El-Sayed, the far-left Islamist who embodies the Red-Green Alliance. The post Michigan Dem Senate Primary Results – Update: El-Sayed Has Slight Lead first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion .
What had been expected to be a clear win for him, however, ended up being a close contest that the Associated Press did not call until Wednesday morning.
Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan, speaks during a primary election night watch party at The Majestic Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026. Sarah Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images
DETROIT — Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary is currently too close to call, with former Wayne County health official Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) currently neck and neck with absentee ballots from Wayne County still being counted.
Michigan Democrats on Tuesday elevated leftist firebrand Abdul El-Sayed to the party’s U.S. Senate nomination, marking the biggest triumph yet for the ascendant far-Left and a humiliating defeat for the establishment’s old guard, who failed to stop him from advancing to a pivotal November clash with…
DETROIT -- Michigan Democrats voted Tuesday in a closely watched Senate primary between moderate U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive favorite Abdul El-Sayed, with the winner heading to a November contest critical to the party's hope of reclaiming the Senate majority.
U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed are in a close race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan. The primary became one of the nation’s most expensive campaigns and a proxy battle between the Democratic Party’s establishment and…
Michigan’s Senate primary with a nearly ninefold difference in spending appeared too close to call Wednesday morning, though one corporate media outlet had no qualms declaring a […]
Projected to win the Democratic primary in Michigan's race for U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed called for a unified party going into the November election and promised to fight against special interests and for affordability.
Progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed has been declared the winner of Michigan’s closely watched Democratic Senate primary, narrowly beating out Congressmember Haley Stevens, according to the Associated Press and other news agencies.
Abdul El-Sayed is Democrats’ pick for U.S. Senate in Michigan. El-Sayed, a former public health official and progressive backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, Decision Desk HQ projects, capping a hotly contested race that drew national attention,…
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the fiercely fought Michigan Democratic Senate primary to face off against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R) for the battleground seat in November, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). DDHQ made its call at 8:35 a.m.
Far-left Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary. The Associated Press called the race for El-Sayed just before 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Abdul El-Sayed […]
Abdul El-Sayed is projected to win Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in a race that drew more than $65 million in spending and became the highest-profile test yet of the party’s progressive wing.
Michigan’s Democratic establishment moved quickly Wednesday to unite behind far-left Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, with several of the party’s most prominent leaders endorsing the socialist-aligned candidate just hours after spending months backing his defeated moderate opponent.
Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Michigan, narrowly defeating Representative Haley Stevens in a close contest. Decision Desk called the race for El-Sayed Tuesday morning, projecting him as the winner with 48.52 percent of the vote to Stevens’s 47.47 percent.
(The Center Square) – Progressive Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary Tuesday night, defeating establishment-backed U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens to become the party's general election nominee.
Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state. El-Sayed narrowly defeated U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Abdul El-Sayed has defeated establishment Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), according to race calls from NBC News and Decision Desk following Tuesday's primary in which the radical transformation of the Democratic Party is center stage.
