Alana Goodman

As an assistant professor at Columbia University, Abdul El-Sayed said he held dual U.S.-Egyptian citizenship. El-Sayed is now running for a Michigan Senate seat, and his campaign says that was a mistake—he's not an Egyptian citizen and never has been. El-... See more

The left-wing candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan's open Senate seat, Abdul El-Sayed, compared a move to ban Sharia law in Oklahoma to the Trail of Tears. "You can't understand a Sharia ban without understanding the Trail of Tears," El-Sayed ... See more

Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the Democratic primary for Michigan's open Senate seat, repeatedly drew an equivalence between 9/11 and the ensuing war on terror in since-deleted posts on X and a 2021 op-ed, arguing that both were "perpetrated ignorantly" ... See more

Posted By: mc squared, 12/17/2025 9:43:10 AM Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the 2026 Michigan Democratic primary for the state’s open Senate seat, campaigned in 2018 to commute all sentences for juveniles sentenced to life in prison in the state—a policy ... See more

El-Sayed, running in the Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat, has attempted to distance himself from his past anti-police positions Abdul El-Sayed Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate in the 2026 Michigan Democratic primary for the state’s open Sena... See more