El-Sayed TORCHED over ‘selective socialism’ platform
Michigan’s 2026 Senate race heats up as progressive nominee Abdul El-Sayed faces intense criticism over his policy platform. Florida Representative Kat Cammack rails against El-Sayed’s socialist agenda, comparing his campaign tactics to a used car salesman. Cammack warns that these progressive policies will ultimately drain the wallets of working-class families while offering nothing but empty promises in return.
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An elected Democratic official in Michigan is rallying her community against U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and claims those within the socialist rise of her party take Black voters for granted.
“It doesn’t change, it’s just different slave owners,” Democratic Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett told Fox News Digital in reference to Democratic Party leaders who believe Black voters are a monolith who should only support left-wing candidates.
She claimed that El-Sayed is not working in the best interest of Black Michiganders and that the far-left wing of her party is “more racist than the KKK.”
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Rep. Karen Whitsett, D-Mich., speaks during a meeting with patients who recovered from COVID-19 in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2020. President Donald Trump’s plan to reopen the economy was unveiled as part of the administration’s coronavirus response. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Whitsett called out prominent Black voices known for rallying the community’s vote for Democrats — specifically naming Al Sharpton and controversial Detroit pastor Horace Sheffield III, an El-Sayed campaign surrogate. She accused the pair of working to “keep the knee on [Black voters’] neck.”
Whitsett said Black voters are “waking up,” and are “realizing the power of our vote.”
“You can see the serious divide of the crazy socialist far-left and especially the white women,” Whitsett said. “They they are the worst and the most racist that they’re possibly ever could be. They’re, I think, they’re more racist than the KKK.”
“Are you trying to help the Black community or are you trying to kill it?” she rhetorically asked. “Are you trying to keep people stupid and ill informed or what? Because right now I can’t tell, right? Is this voter education or are you just trying to make sure you count your slaves on the plantation.”
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El-Sayed’s values aren’t aligned with hers, Whitsett said, adding that she doesn’t think he has the best interest of Black voters at heart, either.
“I’m going to stand on Bible first and I’m going to stand on community first,” she said. I don’t care about moving up within the Democratic Party. I don’t care about making sure my pockets are better.”
El-Sayed’s campaign did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Whitsett’s criticsm of the candidate and the Democratic Party’s leftward shift.
Whitsett is not running for reelection, and will retire when her term expires at the end of the year.
Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan on August 2, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
“I always try to be a voice of reason, and I’m not a go along, get along. So, my whole thing is it has to make sense, and I am definitely family over party. God over party is of the utmost importance,” she said.
“So for me, when you point that out to people, it’s just common sense that to people, that’s just common sense that El-Sayed is not the candidate,” she continued. “There’s just no way. It doesn’t line up. It doesn’t line up Biblically and it doesn’t line up with common sense.”
Noting that she does believe everyone should have medical insurance, Whitsett harped on El-Sayed’s campaign promise of Medicare-for-all. She said the progressive candidate hasn’t adequately explained how that system will be implemented, and what it means for Americans when they visit the doctor.
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“This Medicare for All, it’s not for all. It’s not going to change the dynamics of how many doctors there are, or nurses or blood draws or anything else. You’re now going to put the government in your your health system, and they’re going to decide for you.”
Hasan Piker, left, listens as Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks in a green room before a campaign rally, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
El-Sayed already finds himself in hot water for palling around on the campaign trail with socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who said in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11.” He has also praised Mao Zedong and Communist China, said capitalists should be murdered in the streets and is known for making antisemitic comments.
El-Sayed has refused to condemn Piker, instead painting him as a “streamer from California” who has no bearing on the race in Michigan, despite inviting Piker to Michigan to campaign for him.
Many Jewish Democrats in Michigan have vowed not to support the far-left candidate, saying in an open letter they feel “threatened and alienated by the politics and allies embraced by Abdul El-Sayed, which has included demonization of Jews, equivocation on terrorism, exclusion of Jewish Americans from public life, and expression of implacable hatred of the world’s only Jewish nation.”
