Abdul El-Sayed: Little Style, No Substance in Debate

Lansing, MI – Tonight’s debate between Michigan’s U.S. Senate candidates showed a side of Abdul El-Sayed that many Michiganders may not have seen before: angry, vindictive, and uninformed.

The evening got off to a hot start with El-Sayed providing no answer to a question on tariffs and simply promising to defer to the United Auto Workers (UAW):

Later on, as El-Sayed’s feathers started to get ruffled, he apparently forgot that the entire point of the debate is to help voters decide between the two candidates. He swiped at Republican candidate Mike Rogers for making the debate about the choice facing Michiganders:

Then, Rogers held El-Sayed accountable for his silence on the October 7th terrorist attack in Israel. Nearly 1,200 Israelis were murdered in cold blood, but yesterday El-Sayed said nothing. He has come under fire before for his connection to terrorist sympathizer Hasan Piker, who frequently deals in antisemitic tropes, but tonight he called Rogers’s attack “political theater”:

As the night wore on and El-Sayed failed to back up his radical policies, he turned to a new strategy – co-opting Republican ideas:

In the press scrum afterwards, he was visibly frustrated with a reporter who asked him again about his relationship with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who is infamous for comments like “I hate America” and claiming that the United States is worse than Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that orchestrated the 9/11 attacks:

“This was the first time Abdul El-Sayed had to truly answer for his radical policies and dangerous agenda, and he collapsed under the pressure,” said Gabe Butzke, a spokesperson for the Michigan Forward Network. “El Sayed had no real policy solutions, only pie-in-the-sky fantasies, and he did not have a single answer regarding his background that is filled to the brim with controversies.”