The Daily Signal By Jacob Adams
Abdul El-Sayed, a former Michigan health official known for his pro-Palestinian sympathies, has jumped into the Democratic primary to replace the retiring Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., in the Senate.
El-Sayed, who served as the director of the Wayne County public health department from March 2023 until this month, previously ran unsuccessfully for Michigan governor in 2018. He lost by a wide margin to Gretchen Whitmer in the Democrat primary. This time, El-Sayed faces a Democrat field that includes state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and potentially Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich.
On the Republican side, former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., has declared his candidacy for the seat as well. Rogers narrowly lost the 2024 Michigan Senate race to Elissa Slotkin.
El-Sayed has had a distinguished career in one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituencies: higher education. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he received a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford where he earned a Ph.D. in public health. He then completed his medical doctorate at Columbia University where he later worked as an assistant professor of epidemiology. El-Sayed was also the executive director of the Detroit Department of Health & Wellness Promotion from 2015 to 2017. l-
El-Sayed, who has a personal connection to the Middle East through his father who immigrated to the United States from Egypt, has strong views on the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. In an op-ed published in 2021 (long before the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel), he criticized both Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces…
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