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MORNING GLORY: El-Sayed might have a problem with the Black vote in Michigan

If the radical leftist cannot sell a traditional Democratic demographic stronghold, the race will be called early on election night for Mike Rogers

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published September 24, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has a problem with a large slice of the state’s Black electorate.

It doesn’t like him.

That matters in a state where the voting population is 14% Black. (About 2% of Michigan voters are of Arab descent. 1.4% are Jewish.)

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In the most recent Washington Post–Schar School poll, Sept. 10–14, only 67% of likely Black Michigan voters supported El-Sayed. A Fox News poll from a month earlier, taken Aug. 6–10, found that 75% of Black Michigan voters said they would vote for El-Sayed. That is a trend in the wrong direction for El-Sayed.

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Two years ago, then-Vice President Kamala Harris carried the Black vote in Michigan with 87%. So, El-Sayed is significantly underperforming the most recent Democratic nominee for president.

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The question is why is El-Sayed so weak with this particular demographic?

El-Sayed has addressed this question very directly, including acknowledging that there is mistrust between parts of Detroit’s Black and Arab communities.

El-Sayed may already have given up on Michigan’s significant Jewish vote coming around, but on Tuesday he........

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