hotair.com By John Sexton
Here we go again.
Abdul El-Sayed is a Democrat running for an open Senate seat in Michigan. El-Sayed launched his campaign back in April and, at the time, a big issue was whether or not he would support Chuck Schumer to continue in leadership if elected.
“Anybody who tells you that they’re going to unilaterally oppose one potential candidate without knowing who the alternative is, is either unnuanced or unsophisticated,” said Abdul El-Sayed, who officially launched his bid for Senate on Thursday. “So I want to know who is available, who is actively seeking the leadership. I’ll make a decision from there.”
It’s a tacit rebuke of state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and other Democratic candidates who have said recently that they would oppose Schumer amid an intraparty fight over his handling of a GOP-backed government funding bill.
Despite this moderation, El-Sayed is a progressive who previously ran for governor in the left lane.
El-Sayed took up the left lane during a 2018 bid for governor, when he was endorsed by progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), but he lost to now-Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Very briefly then, El-Sayed is a progressive who is trying to dial his leftism back just enough to get himself elected. So it’s probably no surprise then that he a) was a big supporter of defunding the police in the past and b) deleted all of his social media comments about defunding before running for the Senate. Andrew Kaczynski at CNN has the goods.
The former Detroit health director deleted his entire X history sometime before launching his Senate campaign in April, a move that highlights how progressive Democrats once aligned with “defund” policies are now distancing themselves from a slogan that remains deeply unpopular with voters.
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