# Who is Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan Democrats’ best hope of taking back the Senate?

https://mins.news/en/item/14309

- France 24, 2026-08-05 15:22 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/who-is-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-democrats-best-hope-at-taking-back-the-senate

> Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic primary and will compete for one of the state’s two Senate seats. His campaign centred on pursuing universal healthcare and removing corporate money from elections. The result makes him the latest progressive challenger to disrupt the Democratic Party’s centrist establishment. His criticism of Israel became another major campaign flashpoint, as he described it as an apartheid state carrying out genocide and pulling the United States into unnecessary Middle East wars. The portrait is by Bryan Quinn.

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