Ocasio-Cortez endorses El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that she’s endorsing former Wayne County Health Director Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow progressive, one month out from the Democratic contest in the Michigan Senate race. 

“We are proud to endorse Abdul El-Sayed to be Michigan’s next senator. Abdul is building a winning coalition by putting forward an agenda that speaks directly to working people,” Ocasio-Cortez’s team wrote on social platform X. 

In an interview with The New York Times, which first broke news of the endorsement, Ocasio-Cortez — widely floated as a possible 2028 presidential or Senate hopeful — said the former health official “gives” the Democratic Party its best chance at winning the seat in the fall.  

El-Sayed wrote in his own statement that he was “honored” to have the progressive leader’s backing. 

“AOC has spent her career taking on the powerful on behalf of everyday people, and she has shown all of us what........

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