Tangent
Vance characterized El-Sayed as “evil” during Monday’s rally. “I realize that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” he said. Earlier in the day, El-Sayed invoked the years-old debunked claim that Vance wrote in his book that he had a sexual encounter with a couch, telling reporters, “we don’t have more couches here than they have in Ohio.”
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Key Background
Michigan’s is one of six Senate races considered toss-ups by election forecasters in this year’s midterms. El-Sayed, a progressive, narrowly won his primary against establishment-backed candidate Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. A poll released Monday shows him ahead of Rogers by four points, though 10% of respondents said they were undecided.
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further reading
El-Sayed Explains Why He Hasn’t Condemned Hasan Piker: ‘We Gotta Stop With The Cancel Culture’ (Forbes)
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Latest 2026 Senate Polls: El-Sayed Leads Rogers By 4 Points In Michigan (Forbes)
Here’s What Hasan Piker Said And Why It’s So Controversial (Forbes)