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Kamala Harris returns to Michigan to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed for Senate

Kamala Harris returns to Michigan to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed for Senate

Former VP, who lost state to Trump in 2024 elections, is lending her popularity to unite fractured party Kamala Harris returned to Michigan on Tuesday to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed, lending her popularity among Black voters to a progressive Senate nominee still working to unite a party fractured by a bruising primary – and the former vice-president’s loss to Donald Trump in the state. Appearing with El-Sayed at a Detroit birth center, Harris used a roundtable on Black maternal health to frame that November’s contest against the Republican Mike Rogers as a fight over women’s access to care. Continue reading...

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Sep 22, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Watch live: Kamala Harris joins El-Sayed on campaign trail

Watch live: Kamala Harris joins El-Sayed on campaign trail

Former Vice President Kamala Harris will join progressive Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on the campaign trail Tuesday afternoon, as Democrats seek to take control of Congress next year. Harris threw her support behind El-Sayed, a former health official who is running against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Gary…

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Sep 22, 2026 · byThe Hill
El-Sayed holds 7-point lead in Michigan Senate race survey

El-Sayed holds 7-point lead in Michigan Senate race survey

Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed posted a 7-point advantage over his GOP opponent, Rep. Mike Rogers, in a new survey released Tuesday.  The Suffolk University poll found that 47 percent of likely Michigan voters backed El-Sayed, while 40 percent said they supported Rogers in the November contest.  Eighty-one percent of Democrats backed El-Sayed and…

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Sep 22, 2026 · byThe Hill
El-Sayed on Carlson praise: MAGA ‘eating itself’

El-Sayed on Carlson praise: MAGA ‘eating itself’

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) said President Trump’s MAGA movement is “eating itself” after conservative commentator Tucker Carlson praised the progressive while tearing into his GOP opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers. El-Sayed was asked Monday about Carlson’s comments on the race earlier this month, when the former Fox News host said he “wouldn’t vote…

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Sep 22, 2026 · byThe Hill
DDHQ director says Mike Rogers’s time is ‘running out’

DDHQ director says Mike Rogers’s time is ‘running out’

Scott Tranter, Decision Desk HQ’s (DDHQ) director of data science, on Sunday said that “time is running out” for Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers to close the gap between him and Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed. DDHQ’s forecast shows El-Sayed with a 67 percent probability of winning in November, with Rogers holding a 33 percent…

Sep 20, 2026 · byThe Hill
El-Sayed narrowly leads Rogers in Michigan Senate race: Poll

El-Sayed narrowly leads Rogers in Michigan Senate race: Poll

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed holds a slight lead over his opponent former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a new poll shows. The Hill/Emerson College Polling survey released Thursday found that El-Sayed garnered 48 percent support, Rogers received 46 percent, 4 percent remained undecided and 2 percent chose another candidate…

Sep 17, 2026 · byThe Hill
House votes for a third time to end Iran war in symbolic move as conflict drags on – US politics live

House votes for a third time to end Iran war in symbolic move as conflict drags on – US politics live

The action is likely the last House vote on issue ahead of the midterm elections Sign up for the US Breaking News email Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. For a third time, the US House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt president Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval. As part of a $2.8bn package of military aid, the Trump administration plans to send Israel a type of one-ton bombs that were withheld by the Biden administration over concerns that they were being used to kill Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Donald Trump “threw a tantrum” when he heard that Democratic congresswoman Joyce Beatty , a trustee of the Kennedy Center whose lawsuit forced Trump’s name to be removed from the facade of the memorial, had again prevailed in court . A televised Michigan Senate debate in Detroit on Tuesday was distinctly one-sided, because the Democratic nominee, Dr Abdul El-Sayed turned up, while his Republican rival, Mike Rogers , chose not to attend. Todd Blanche , the US attorney general, alerted reporters at the White House to stand by for what he called “a big development” in the federal crackdown on voting by non-citizens to be announced by Ryan Raybould , the US attorney for the Northern District of Texas. When it came, however, Raybould’s announcement , that his office had charged six lawful permanent residents and one undocumented immigrant for voting in federal elections over the past eight years, hardly lived up to the billing. Continue reading...

Sep 16, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Rogers set to skip Michigan Senate debate over outlet’s ‘favoritism’ toward El-Sayed

Rogers set to skip Michigan Senate debate over outlet’s ‘favoritism’ toward El-Sayed

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R) will skip Tuesday night’s debate with opponent Abdul El-Sayed (D), citing the moderator’s alleged “favoritism” toward the Democrat. Alyssa Brouillet, the Rogers campaign’s communications director, said in a statement that Michiganders “deserve to see their candidates engage in a healthy, fair debate — not one compromised by media bias.” …

Sep 15, 2026 · byThe Hill
Republican seeking to implicate Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11 voted twice against benefits for first responders

Republican seeking to implicate Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11 voted twice against benefits for first responders

Mike Rogers has also helped kill other bills that would have provided healthcare to responders and survivors Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican US Senate candidate, has sought in recent weeks to create controversy over old tweets his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed posted about 9/11. He has for example, falsely suggested El-Sayed, who is Muslim, said the US deserved the attack. But, as critics have noted, Rogers has twice voted against healthcare and other benefits for 9/11 first responders and survivors, congressional records show. He has also helped kill other bills that would have provided benefits and healthcare to first responders nationwide. Rogers, a former member of Congress, is vying for Michigan’s open US Senate seat in a tight race that could decide control of Congress during the next session. Continue reading...

Sep 11, 2026 · byThe Guardian
El-Sayed hits Rogers on GOP convention appearance in new online game

El-Sayed hits Rogers on GOP convention appearance in new online game

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is trolling his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), over his appearance at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas via a video game. The retro-style game’s start screen features the game’s title — Come Home, Mike — and Rogers’s face superimposed on a cartoon body standing on a…

Sep 10, 2026 · byThe Hill