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Abdul El-Sayed Says He's Not a Socialist. His Policy Agenda Says Otherwise.

El-Sayed is pushing a mendacious claim: that people would be wealthier if they endured yet another massive transfer of money and power to a vast federal health bureaucracy.

Robby Soave | 8.5.2026 3:25 PM

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Abdul El-Sayed has won the Michigan Democratic Senate race, and socialists really think they are surging—but they're still lying when they say their supporters are working class.

This week, El-Sayed, a progressive, defeated the more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens (D–Mich.) even after campaigning alongside Hasan Piker, a far-left Twitch streamer who thinks America deserved 9/11 and that authoritarian China is the ideal.

That tells you everything you need to know about where the Democratic Party is headed: its primary voters absolutely........

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