
<p>As Michigan Democrats prepare to select their nominee for the United States Senate in the primary election on August 4, 2026, one name emerges as the apparent frontrunner: Abdul El-Sayed. Yet this development should send shockwaves through every patriotic American. El-Sayed does not merely hold progressive views. He has made public statements that reveal a disturbing alignment with interests hostile to the United States and its closest allies. Recent reports have revealed quotes that should disqualify him from any serious consideration by voters who value American security and the well-being of American citizens.</p>



<p>Consider first El-Sayed’s reaction to the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This was not the passing of some benign figure. Khamenei spent decades leading a regime that chanted “Death to America,” funded global terrorism, killed millions of people and threatened the very existence of the Jewish state.</p>



<p>When American and Israeli actions eliminated this architect of anti-Western hatred, one might expect a Democratic Senate candidate to express relief or at least neutrality. And most did, but not El-Sayed. In leaked audio from a March 1 campaign strategy call, he instructed his team to remain completely silent.</p>



<p>“<em>I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today,” “So, like, I just don’t want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don’t think it’s worth even touching that.”</em></p>



<p>El-Sayed suggested pivoting to attacks on President Trump regarding unrelated political matters. This is not political caution. This is willful blindness to the well-deserved death of a terrorist mastermind.</p>



<p>El-Sayed claims to be responding to Democrat voters who will be “sad” to learn of the death of the Supreme Leader. Hard to imagine that any decent American voter would harbor a feeling of sadness over the death of a leader who wants to kill them – and has. El-Sayed places the feelings of those who mourn an enemy of America ahead of any declaration of support for American interests.</p>



<p>The pattern grows even more alarming when one examines El-Sayed’s response to the March 12 terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. An Islamist terrorist tied to Hezbollah, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, drove an explosives-laden vehicle directly into the synagogue complex, a site that included a daycare center filled with more than one hundred Jewish children. Law enforcement acted swiftly, and the attacker was fatally shot before he could carry out a massacre. This was not a random act of road rage. The FBI later confirmed it as a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism, with the perpetrator sending militant videos to family in Lebanon in which he expressed his desire to “kill as many Jews as possible”.</p>



<p>El-Sayed issued a four-minute video statement. He condemned the attack, to be sure. Yet he could not resist drawing a moral equivalence. “We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel, and we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away,” he declared, explicitly linking the domestic terrorism in Michigan to Israel’s military operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon – and to America’s military actions in Iran.</p>



<p>In private remarks to his campaign staff, El-Sayed admitted the entire statement was “a risk.” “All of our team was really worried about saying something,” he confessed, “but leadership is being willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true that nobody else is going to say.” On that count, you have to give El-Sayed credit for saying something no one else would – or should – say.</p>



<p>By framing the murder attempt on American Jewish children as part of a larger “cycle of violence” for which he holds Israel responsible, El-Sayed effectively contextualized and softened the terrorist’s actions. He essentially justified them despite his initial condemnation of that West Bloomfield terrorist attack.</p>



<p>These are not isolated slips of the tongue. They reveal a candidate whose worldview places the sensitivities of anti-American constituencies above the interests of Michigan families and the strategic interests of the United States. Dearborn mourners who grieve the loss of an Iranian theocrat receive deference. Jewish children targeted in their own synagogue receive lectures about distant Middle East conflicts. This is not the profile of a senator who will defend American citizens. It is the profile of an activist who views the United States and its allies through the lens of its adversaries.</p>



<p>One must ask in disbelief how the Democratic Party and its voters in Michigan can rally behind such a figure. Have they learned nothing from years of radical rhetoric that excuses terrorism abroad and endangers lives at home? Do they truly believe that a Senate candidate who refuses to denounce the death of America’s sworn enemy &#8212; and who ties domestic terror to Israeli self-defense &#8212; represents their values? El-Sayed’s candidacy exposes a party that has drifted so far left that it now tolerates sympathies incompatible with basic American patriotism.</p>



<p>Michigan deserves better. The United States Senate deserves better. And the American people deserve leaders who place their nation and its citizens first without hesitation or apology. The fact that El-Sayed remains the likely Democratic nominee should serve as a warning to every voter in the state. If Democrat voters succeed in nominating El-Sayed as their standard bearer, we can only hope that the voters of Michigan will give El-Sayed the crushing defeat he deserves in November.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

Abdul El-Sayed on Track to Be Michigan Democrats’ Choice for Senate. Really?
