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Abdul El-Sayed’s ‘Are you circumcised? blunder could cost Dems — and create greater party fracture

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There are sentences one expects to hear in a United States Senate campaign. 

And then there are sentences that, until Monday night, had probably never been uttered during one. 

During a live interview on his show, Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, “So you think it’s OK for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” 

El-Sayed responded with a question of his own: “Are you circumcised?” 

Welcome to the 2026 midterms.

It’s only going to go downhill from here. 

The exchange was typical of the dodge-and-weave strategy El-Sayed used throughout the Democratic primary race, as he smugly evaded tough and rational questions about his policy positions on hot-button issues. 

El-Sayed wasn’t just unprepared to answer questions on transgender medical interventions for children; he was equally unable to intelligently discuss Sharia law, reparations, healthcare costs and windmills on Lake Michigan. 

His smarmy performance has been a gift to Republicans who see in the candidate a dark turn toward a new generation of extremists running as Democrats: elites promoting socialism while remaining deeply disconnected from the........

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