{"id":2644447,"date":"2026-08-13T14:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-sayed-snubs-sanders-and-aoc-in-first-general-election-campaign-ad\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:21:33","slug":"el-sayed-snubs-sanders-and-aoc-in-first-general-election-campaign-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-sayed-snubs-sanders-and-aoc-in-first-general-election-campaign-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"El Sayed snubs Sanders and AOC in first general election campaign ad"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fel-sayed-snubs-sanders-and-aoc-in-first-general-election-campaign-ad%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=2644447&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, Michigan&#8217;s Democratic Senate candidate and endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, notably did not mention these key endorsements in his first general election ad, which rather highlights support from labor unions. His primary victory, aided by the endorsements of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, positioned him as a left-leaning candidate who is more progressive than his opponent but does not identify as a socialist. He defeated primary rival haley Stevens by a narrow margin. <\/p>\n<p>In the upcoming general election, el Sayed will face Republican Mike Rogers, who currently holds a slight lead in polls. Rogers&#8217;s campaign emphasizes issues like skilled trades and housing affordability, drawing on personal stories about his family. The article notes that progressives&#8217; influence in the Midwest has shown mixed results, with some candidates like Francesca Hong losing primaries, while endorsements from prominent progressives like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez helped el Sayed secure his primary win.  <\/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\/abdul-el-sayed\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"23138\">Abdul el Sayed<\/a>, the Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\">Michigan<\/a>, neglected to mention his top endorsements from Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bernie-sanders\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"41\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-VT) and Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"282\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) in his first campaign advertisement for the general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ElliscbIV\/status\/2087715727457599913\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ElliscbIV\/status\/2087715727457599913\">30-second spot<\/a> is largely identical to a previous primary election ad that featured endorsements from the two progressive lawmakers. The reused ad emphasizes his support from labor unions rather than from any individual politician.<\/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\/4686397\/graham-platner-speak-first-event-after-suspending-maine-senate-campaign\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Graham Platner to speak at first event after suspending Maine Senate campaign<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4686373\/el-sayed-drops-mention-sanders-aoc-first-general-election-campaign-ad\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>El Sayed drops mention of Sanders and AOC in first general election campaign ad<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4686009\/troy-jackson-ad-touts-affordability-maine-senate-race\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Troy Jackson\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/troy-jacksons-new-ad-touts-affordability-pitch-were-getting-screwed\/\" title=\"Troy Jackson&#039;s new ... touts affordability pitch: &#039;We&#039;re getting screwed&#039;\">ad touts affordability pitch<\/a>: \u2018We\u2019re getting screwed\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The snub is notable because progressives are <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4684819\/directly-responsible-progressives-blame-aoc-bernie-sanders-francesca-hong-wisconsin-loss\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4684819\/directly-responsible-progressives-blame-aoc-bernie-sanders-francesca-hong-wisconsin-loss\/\">openly blaming<\/a> Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez for failing to support socialist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/francesca-hong\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"23344\">Francesca Hong<\/a> in the Democratic primary for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wisconsin\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"239\">Wisconsin<\/a> governor this week. Hong narrowly lost to the more centrist David Crowley.<\/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\">Meanwhile, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez helped push el Sayed to a primary victory last week with their endorsements. Though he doesn\u2019t identify as a socialist, el Sayed leans more to the left than Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), his primary rival. The physician-turned-candidate beat Stevens by 1 percentage point in the competitive primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El Sayed now turns his attention to the general election in November, when he will go up against Republican nominee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-rogers\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1022\">Mike Rogers<\/a>, a former Michigan congressman and a failed 2024 Senate\u00a0candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans are hopeful Rogers can defeat el Sayed, whose progressive beliefs may turn away moderate Democrats and independent voters. No new major polls have been released since the Michigan primaries, but Rogers is slightly leading el Sayed by 0.3 points in the latest <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/elections\/senate\/2026\/michigan\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/elections\/senate\/2026\/michigan\"><em>RealClearPolitics<\/em> polling average<\/a>. If Stevens won her party\u2019s nomination, she would have had a better chance at beating Rogers.<\/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\">El Sayed\u2019s new ad emphasized his upbringing and his focus on affordability, with kind words from his grandparents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe helped raise him,\u201d Judy and Jan said. \u201cHe became a doctor. He always wanted to help people. He got all those kids glasses. Eliminated medical debt. He buys us groceries every week. He knows what things cost. He learned his Michigan values in our small town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4684090\/progressives-primary-midwest-hong-crowley-flanagan\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4684090\/progressives-primary-midwest-hong-crowley-flanagan\/\">PROGRESSIVES HAVE MIXED SHOWING IN MIDWEST AS FRANCESCA HONG FUMBLES PRIMARY<\/a><\/strong><\/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\">Rogers also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdImpact_Pol\/status\/2087630496289194096\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdImpact_Pol\/status\/2087630496289194096\">released a new ad<\/a> for the general election, highlighting his goals of investing in the skilled trades and lowering housing costs for Michigan residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy dad was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadas-legalization-of-public-sex-displays-is-coming-to-a-school-near-you\/\" title=\"Can...a\u2019s Legalization Of Public Sex Displays Is Coming To A School Near You\">high school shop teacher<\/a>, and he built our family home with his own two hands,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cAs Michigan senator, I\u2019ll invest in the skilled trades and put a shop class in every high school. I know how to lower housing costs. Let\u2019s train more builders and fire more bureaucrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Sayed omits Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez in general election ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2159,"featured_media":2644448,"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\/08\/AP26199842871765.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[8334,35946,81734,5894,3981],"class_list":["post-2644447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-aoc","tag-campaign-ad","tag-el-sayed","tag-politics","tag-sanders"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26199842871765.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644447","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\/2159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644451,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644447\/revisions\/2644451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}