{"id":2631191,"date":"2026-07-17T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigans-el-sayed-tells-supporters-to-stop-making-fun-of-stevens\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:50:56","slug":"michigans-el-sayed-tells-supporters-to-stop-making-fun-of-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigans-el-sayed-tells-supporters-to-stop-making-fun-of-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan&#8217;s el Sayed tells supporters to stop making fun of Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichigans-el-sayed-tells-supporters-to-stop-making-fun-of-stevens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2631191&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Abdul el Sayed, a Michigan Democratic Senate candidate, has urged his supporters to stop mocking his rival, Rep. Haley Stevens, and to focus on policy issues.He is campaigning against Stevens, who is backed by establishment figures and corporate interests, and is polling well ahead of her in teh primary. El sayed advocates for progressive policies, including abolishing ICE, implementing Medicare-for-all, and raising taxes on the wealthy. His positions also include supporting defunding the police, opposing U.S. aid to Israel due to its actions in Gaza, and condemning the war in Iran. He has placed a focus on campaign integrity,criticizing the negative social media behavior directed at stevens,and has publicly vowed to challenge Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer if he wins. Controversies surround his campaign, notably his past support for movements like defund the police and prison abolition, and also his outspoken stance on Middle East conflicts and associations with controversial figures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\">Michigan<\/a> candidate <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abdul-el-sayed\/\">Abdul el Sayed<\/a> on Friday urged his supporters to stop \u201cmaking fun\u201d of his rival in the race for the state\u2019s Democratic Senate nomination, telling progressives to focus on the issues instead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic voters are choosing between el Sayed, who <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/dsa-progressives-wisconsin-michigan-primaries-00986944?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=25491daf-c42b-4649-b20c-4ffd776afc37\">is backed<\/a> by socialists, and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), a comparatively centrist establishment-backed candidate, in the Aug. 4 primary. Ahead of the election, el Sayed admonished his followers, telling them to lay off Stevens, whose behavior is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/2076724997452677207\">often mocked <\/a>on social media. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4653346\/el-sayed-stop-making-fun-haley-stevens\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Michigan\u2019s el Sayed tells supporters to stop making fun of rival Haley Stevens: \u2018Focus on the issues\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4652924\/abdul-el-sayed-conversation-chuck-schumer-michigan-senate-primary\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Abdul el Sayed says he\u2019ll have a conversation with Schumer \u2018after I win\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4652887\/nirav-shah-troy-jackson-solidify-status-top-contenders-maine-senate-race\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Nirav Shah and Troy Jackson solidify status as top contenders in Maine as others Senate candidates flounder<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s become impossible to ignore the way that people online make fun of my opponent for things that have nothing to do with her policies or politics,\u201d el Sayed <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AbdulElSayed\/status\/2078129398192988592\">wrote in a post<\/a> to X. \u201cIt\u2019s unkind and unhelpful. If you support me, please stop \u2026 We don\u2019t need to be unkind to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFocus on the issues: Congresswoman Stevens has welcomed corporations and special interests to support her,\u201d he continued. \u201cShe votes to send our money abroad while Michiganders struggle. She\u2019s bought by DTE, Blue Cross, Big Tech, and Big Pharma who pick our pockets. AIPAC, Trump-aligned billionaires, and corporate PACs are spending $50,000,000+ to support her. \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed has been<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/michigan-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\"> polling well <\/a>against Stevens in the race to win the Democratic primary and succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI). The winner of the August election is on track to face former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed holds a range of left-wing or socialist positions, including backing abolishing <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>, instituting Medicare-for-all, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/abdulforsenate.com\/priority\/money-in-your-pocket\/\">raising taxes<\/a> on wealthier individuals, such as raising the top marginal tax rate on earnings over $1 million, taxing capital gains and inheritances over $1 million as ordinary income, implementing a \u201cbillionaire tax\u201d on wealth over $1 billion, and putting a progressive tax on wealth held by trusts. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The candidate has supported aspects of the defund the police and prison abolitionist movements in the past, though he has walked such positions back on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4634011\/abdul-el-sayed-schumer-momentum\/\"><strong>ABDUL EL SAYED VOWS TO TAKE ON SCHUMER AS LEFT-WING CANDIDATES GAIN MOMENTUM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On foreign policy, el Sayed has condemned the war in Iran and declined to endorse the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because \u201cthere are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad\u201d about his death, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/there-are-a-lot-of-people-in-dearborn-who-are-sad-democratic-senate-hopeful-abdul-el-sayed-said-he-needed-to-stay-silent-on-khamenei-killing-because-many-of-michigans-muslim-voters\/\">according to<\/a> audio obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in its war against Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists, and backs pulling U.S. aid from Israel. That position <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/abdulforsenate.com\/2026\/07\/breaking-haley-stevens-breaks-with-house-dems-to-send-money-to-israel\/\">sets him apart <\/a>from Stevens, who recently sided with House Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"790\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) in opposing a progressive-backed amendment that would have <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4647363\/hakeem-jeffries-opposes-ending-aid-israel\/\">ended all defensive funding<\/a> aid to Israel. El Sayed has attracted controversy for repeatedly campaigning with Twitch political streamer Hasan Piker, due to his antisemitic views,<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvAN_N2OQJQ\"> including comments in April<\/a> that he \u201cwould vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Sayed urges supporters to focus on issues, not mock rival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2631192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26189067784672_bed0b3.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[81734,4601,82382,5221],"class_list":["post-2631191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-el-sayed","tag-michigan","tag-stevens","tag-supporters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26189067784672_bed0b3.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631195,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631191\/revisions\/2631195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}