Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful, just revealed he is in the top 1% of the state’s wealthiest earners.
This comes after El-Sayed faced pressure from his Democratic primary opponent, Haley Stevens, to keep his promise of transparency and release his tax filings before the primary election, Wood TV, an NBC affiliate, <a href="https://www.woodtv.com/news/elections/democratic-senate-candidate-el-sayed-releases-tax-returns-ahead-of-primary/">reported</a>.
According to El-Sayed&#8217;s 2025 <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aI4HmuW4EmMR0y9JDZ_l-3P2Np51p4z0/view">partial tax release</a>, he and his wife reported $130,749 in wages, $262,299 in capital gains, and $292,881 in “additional income.” This totals to an adjusted gross income of $675,246. 
This adjusted gross income puts him well above the threshold of $611,000 to be in Michigan’s top 1%, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-detroit-a023b240-b72d-11ef-b1d6-a7e5c47ef06b?">Axios</a>.
The partial release does not disclose all his streams of income. Additionally, his net worth is not disclosed, though it is estimated to lie between $580,000 and $1.7 million.
El-Sayed’s campaign said that the capital gains come from the sale of a house El-Sayed’s in-laws have bought for him and his wife, along with El-Sayed’s little-known podcast America Dissected and his wife’s psychiatry practice, Mind Work Psychiatry.
El-Sayed claimed the delay in the release of his tax filings was not to try to conceal financial records, but that “my wife and her family own property abroad, so getting all those tax forms is a thing,” The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/abdul-el-sayed-in-top-1-percent-of-michigan-earners-partial-tax-release-shows/">reported</a>.
El-Sayed previously stated that he had a “mundane,” “standard” tax return. However, El-Sayed has previously let slip that his wealth situation differs from that of many in his state.
In an interview, El-Sayed <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/2074861180418437197?s=20">affirmed</a> that he is most likely a millionaire, saying that his and his wife’s combined assets would “add up to something like that,” but insisted, “My career has never been about trying to maximize on money.”
On his website, El-Sayed describes himself as a physician who moved into politics and <a href="https://abdulforsenate.com/">says</a> he “is fighting for an economy that works for everyone” and “healthcare for all” and that he will fight against Trump’s billionaire friends.
Though El-Sayed has distanced himself from Democratic Socialism, he has gained the support of democratic socialists, including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, according to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/meet-graham-platner-2-0-michigans-abdul-el-sayed/amp/">The National Review</a>.
El-Sayed has recently been under fire for other issues. The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/abdul-el-sayed-wants-medicare-for-all-from-cradle-to-grave-his-psychiatrist-wife-doesnt-accept-medicare-or-any-insurance-at-all/">exposed</a> El-Sayed’s wife for not accepting Medicare or any other insurance for her psychiatry work, even though one of El-Sayed’s major party platforms is &#8220;Medicare for All.”
The primary between Stevens and El-Sayed will take place on August 4, and the winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November for the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Senator Gary Peters.

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Millions of Americans face apocalyptic skies as wind blows heavy smoke from Canadian wildfires into the United States. 
Impact from the smoke could be felt Friday across major cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York City, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. The smoke originated from roughly 800 wildfires that blazed in recent weeks in Ontario, Canada and is expected to continue impacting American&#8217;s air quality for the next several days. 
The conditions have prompted air quality warnings from officials who have encouraged residents in some areas to stay inside. Milwaukee saw its worst air quality on record while alerts were issued in over a dozen states — mianly throughout the Midwest and Northeast — urging people to be cautious. 
Ohio’s Environmental Protection Agency <a href="https://x.com/OhioEPA/status/2077826905974149601/photo/1">told</a> people to “avoid strenuous outdoor activities when possible, especially if you have heart or respiratory conditions. Watch for symptoms like wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, dizziness, or irritation in your nose, throat, or eyes.”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GovGretchenWhitmer/posts/a-statewide-air-quality-alert-remains-in-place-today-with-air-quality-ranging-fr/1558742538934998/">said</a> people across her state should “stay indoors whenever possible.”
The smoke could be seen in the nation&#8217;s capital on Friday, with residents noting the eerie look of the smoke floating around the iconic city.
“The sky and the air in DC looks apocalyptic — as if things can&#8217;t get weirder,” <a href="https://x.com/MeghanMcCain/status/2078086173025603685">said</a> commentator Meghan McCain.
The fallout from the fires has led some lawmakers to call for action, including Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno who said he plans to file legislation that would sanction Canada over the wildfires. 
“Canada’s government failed to invest in wildfire prevention methods including forest thinning, fuel reduction, prescribed burns, and stronger enforcement against arson,” Moreno’s <a href="https://www.13abc.com/2026/07/16/sen-bernie-moreno-looks-hold-canadian-government-responsible-wildfire-smoke/">office said</a>. 
Four Michigan Congressional Republicans, including gubernatorial candidate John James, <a href="https://bergman.house.gov/uploadedfiles/canadian_wildfires_summer_2026.pdf">wrote</a> a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to critique Canada’s handling of its wildfires.  
&#8220;The season has come around again, and nothing has changed except that our patience has run out,” the GOP lawmakers wrote. &#8220;Our constituents in Michigan are once again under air quality alerts. Our hospitals are once again treating children, dialysis patients, and older residents for the effects of smoke that did not originate anywhere near them.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the third consecutive year we have had to write to Canadian officials about a crisis that Canada has the tools to prevent and has chosen not to,” they added. “We were told last year that this would be treated with urgency. It was not.&#8221;
Earlier this week, Carney said that thousands of people across Canada had been forced to evacuate due to the fires.

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Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) announced Wednesday that she is returning home to Michigan after the death of her 12-day-old great-granddaughter.
Dingell shared the news on Facebook and X, saying she would leave Washington to be with her family.  
“Today I am returning home to be with my family during an incredibly painful and deeply personal time,” Dingell <a href="https://x.com/RepDebDingell/status/2077456509273829428">posted</a> on X. “Our family’s 12-day-old daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter has returned home to God this afternoon. We have been in God’s hands throughout all of this,” she continued.
“While I had planned to be present for votes today and tomorrow, my family needs me now,” she said. “In moments like this, there is no greater responsibility than being by the side of those we love, offering comfort, support, and remembrance.” 
Dingell, 72, has no biological children but became stepmother to her late husband John Dingell&#8217;s four children, making the infant part of her extended family. She succeeded her husband in Congress in 2015. 
Colleagues shared messages of support on social media.
“Sending our deepest condolences to Debbie,” <a href="https://x.com/RepMikeLawler/status/2077481876567019983">said</a> New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawler on X. “Keeping her granddaughter and the entire Dingell family in our prayers.”
“Our deepest sympathies, thoughts, and prayers are with the Dingell family during this difficult time,” The Michigan Democratic Party <a href="https://x.com/MichiganDems/status/2077484442864734384">responded</a>.

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Despite claims that he never pushed to defund the police, leftist darling Abdul El-Sayed once said that “we do need to defund the police” and argued that funds used for law enforcement should go to public libraries instead. 
El-Sayed, running for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20251116082605/https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/15/abdul-el-sayed-distances-himself-from-past-defund-the-police-rhetoric/87276996007/">argues</a> that he “never, never, called for defunding” the police. That claim contrasts with anti-police positions he took during the summer of 2020 as riots broke out over the death of convicted felon George Floyd in Minneapolis. 
“I believe that we do need to defund the police in so far as defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets, and investing more in the means of educating and empowering engaging communities, with the means of being able to take on systemic poverty that we&#8217;ve allowed systematic racism to allow a fester in too many communities,” El-Sayed said in a June 23, 2020 MichMash Politics <a href="https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/michmash-politics-1990214/episodes/abdul-el-sayed-discusses-racis-100146585">interview</a> first <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/politics/kfile-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-defund-police-fact-check">flagged</a> by CNN. 
That comment came after he suggested that he generally did not use the term “defund the police” but advocated for the policies pushed by the movement. 
“Rather than investing in a force of people who respond with guns and put people in jails, what if we were to take on systematic poverty by investing in the means of uprooting that poverty itself?” he said. “What if we were to invest in social services? If we were to invest in public schools? What if we were to invest in public libraries?”
El-Sayed is facing off against Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the competitive Democratic primary race to replace outgoing Senator Gary Peters. The winner of the primary will likely go on to run against Republican Mike Rogers. 
Facing scrutiny over his previous police rhetoric, El-Sayed is now trying to distance himself from the defund the police movement. That contradicts what he told MichMash back in June 2020. 
“I want a refund on the taxpayer dollars that I pay to police who use that to buy war material, to wage war in our streets, and I want to refund public health and public libraries and public schools,” El-Sayed said. 
Later in the same interview, he argued that people imprisoned are the real victims of crime because of “over-policing” and failure to combat poverty. 
“The fact of the matter is every single person winds up in jail, or worse, dead, at the hands of a police officer, has been failed by our system, either directly because of our over-policing, or indirectly because we have failed to invest in the things that uproot poverty in communities across the country,” he said.
The Daily Wire reached out to El-Sayed, the former public health director for Detroit, to explain his stance on defunding the police. 
“Abdul worked closely with law enforcement as Director of Health, Human, and Veterans services for Wayne County. As hands-on experience always allows, his perspective has become more nuanced,” campaign spokeswoman Roxie Richner told The Daily Wire. “One simple word has never been enough to fully explain the reforms we need for a challenge as complex as our criminal legal system.”
Richner added that El-Sayed believes &#8220;we need to improve law enforcement recruitment, retention, and retirement funding so that law enforcement officers come from the communities they serve.” El-Sayed also supports “community violence intervention” policies and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, Richner said. The act would weaken legal protections for police officers. 
That response was similar to the comment given to CNN for an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/politics/kfile-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-defund-police-fact-check">article</a> highlighting El-Sayed’s history of anti-police rhetoric. The outlet noted that El-Sayed had deleted at least a dozen posts pushing defund the police policies. 
“Most major US cities spend WAY TOO MUCH on police departments to police poverty &amp; WAY TOO LITTLE on public schools, health departments, recreation departments, &amp; housing to eliminate poverty. Fixing that is what the #Defund movement is about,” he wrote in one post from June 2020 that he later deleted. 
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El-Sayed, who claims that Floyd was the victim of an “assassination” and was “lynched,” suggested during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJzgpT200c&amp;t=1s">seminar</a> hosted by the University of Michigan that police officers should not be armed. 
“So we have to ask ourselves, do police departments really need tanks and weapons of war and the material that’s coming back as hand-me-downs from the military abroad? Do police really need to use guns? Do we need as much of a police force?” he asked. 
He added that the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement was about getting the government to move away from &#8220;racist ideologies&#8221; that led police to &#8220;invest in war material&#8221; for law enforcement.
During his time pushing anti-police rhetoric, El-Sayed was heavily <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/michigan-senate-candidate-abdul-el-sayed-helped-lead-anti-police-group-as-it-organized-detroit-protest-turned-deadly-riot/">involved</a> in a group called Michigan United which compared police officers to &#8220;slave catchers&#8221; and helped organize a protest that turned into a riot, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

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An illegal immigrant from Haiti is accused of chasing his coworker with a knife before fatally stabbing him at a meat processing plant in Coldwater, Michigan.
Haitian national Valmir Djempsley, 20, and Brandon Eduardo Velasquez Chavez, 21, were arguing while on the job together at Clemens Food Group on June 30 when the illegal immigrant ran after Chavez with a knife, News Channel 3 <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/coldwater-stabbing-clemens-food-group-argument-arrest-court-arraignment-crime-investigation-police-branch-county-west-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, citing witness accounts. Prosecutors say Djempsley stabbed Chavez in the back, killing him at the scene.
Djempsley told investigators Chavez had been using his assigned knife and attempted to head-butt him while returning it. Police said no witnesses corroborated that account.
&#8220;From what I know right now, the knives are identified by the employees. They are given numbers, and they&#8217;re given to employees by that, and there was a dispute over a knife,&#8221; Coldwater Public Safety Director Joe Scheid told News Channel 3.
Djempsley entered the country illegally in Texas in 2024 and was released into the United States under the Biden administration, <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/07/08/ice-asks-michigan-not-release-haitian-illegal-alien-arrested-killing-his-coworker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Department of Homeland Security. News Channel 3 reported that Djempsley had authorization to work in the United States.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer requesting that local authorities transfer Djempsley into federal custody for deportation.
“This illegal alien barbarically stabbed his coworker to death,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Wednesday. “This murderer was released into American communities by the Biden Administration.&#8221;
&#8220;If it weren’t for the reckless open border policies of the Biden Administration, this criminal never would have been in our country in the first place and his victim would still be alive. We have lodged a detainer asking Michigan to not release this dangerous criminal from jail without notifying ICE,&#8221; Bis added.
Djempsley pleaded not guilty to his open murder charge, broke down in tears during his arraignment, and was denied bond, according to News Channel 3.
Branch County Prosecutor Victor Fitz told News Channel 3 that his office will seek the maximum sentence if Djempsley is convicted.
&#8220;If he&#8217;s found guilty, then we would expect there would be a sentence and we would be really demanding that that full sentence be served, whatever that might be,&#8221; Fitz said. &#8220;After that, deportation is pursued.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the most serious violation known to humankind,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He was supposed to be on his best behavior, but instead, he spilled the lifeblood of another human being.&#8221;

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Leftist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) are concentrating their efforts on getting another radical leftist elected — this time in Michigan for the U.S. Senate. 
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are scheduled to host rallies across Michigan for leftist Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed on July 18 and 19. El-Sayed is in the middle of what&#8217;s expected to be a close race for the party&#8217;s nomination against Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens.
El-Sayed is running his campaign much like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with a heavy social media presence and large appeal among Muslims and young leftists. 
For the Fourth of July, he made a music video in which he danced to a Taylor Swift song on the pop star&#8217;s wedding weekend. &#8220;Happy Taylor wedding…err, July 4th weekend!&#8221; El-Sayed wrote in the caption above the video.
In another video, he took the song &#8220;I want to dance with somebody” and changed the lyrics to “I want to vote for somebody” while listing out his attributes. Stevens called out El-Sayed for his posts, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/us/politics/abdul-el-sayed-haley-stevens-michigan-senate-debate.html">arguing</a> that he’s more focused on his own publicity than the people of Michigan. 
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Happy Taylor wedding…err, July 4th weekend! <a href="https://t.co/1s1blnoY4P">pic.twitter.com/1s1blnoY4P</a>
— Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) <a href="https://x.com/AbdulElSayed/status/2073429685870968917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
El-Sayed portrays himself as a physician despite <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/abdul-el-sayed-doctor-physician-00916389">not</a> being granted a medical license. Like democratic socialist candidates who have recently won Democratic primaries, El-Sayed is defending past radical statements he has made. 
In a 2020 radio interview, El-Sayed <a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/abdul-el-sayed-repeatedly-called-210836248.html">said</a>, “We are in a moment where a lot of our public conversation gets chewed down into 280 characters or less … I believe that we do need to defund the police in so far as defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets.&#8221;
El-Sayed is currently <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/politics/kfile-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-defund-police-fact-check">defending</a> his remarks by saying he never called to defund the police. One year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, El-Sayed supported another lockdown in April 2021. He suggested businesses should be fined for trying to open their doors in the midst of the public health crisis.
His anti-Israel stance also sparked controversy last October when El-Sayed’s campaign sent a fundraising email on the anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel that made no mention of Hamas’ atrocities and blamed Israel for launching “a ground invasion of Gaza.” El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign later said the email was sent by mistake, but the leftist stood by the message in the email.
During his Senate campaign, he has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-a-socialist-michigans-mamdani-has-the-lefts-new-playbook-but-doesnt-want-the-new-label">called</a> for ICE to be abolished, while doubling down on his push for Medicare for all and tuition-free access to higher education. The Michigan primary is on August 4. 
Democratic-socialists have been on a recent tear, ousting decade-long Democratic incumbents in the primaries. In June, Democratic socialist Melat Kiros upset incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) in the primary for Colorado’s 1st congressional district. DeGette has served in Congress for longer than Kiros has been alive. 
In New York, three Mamdani-backed candidates swept their races. One of the candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier, defeated incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat despite past anti-American social media posts such as “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
A Fourth of July poll from the Cato Institute revealed that socialism is on the rise, as 53% of Gen Z and 40% of Millennials have a favorable view of socialism and are taking their new ideals to the voting booth.

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A prominent Michigan Democrat suspended her U.S. Senate campaign Sunday, clearing the way for a direct showdown between the Democratic establishment and the party&#8217;s leftist wing in one of the nation&#8217;s most consequential Senate races.
State Senate Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow announced she was ending her bid less than a month before the August 4 primary, leaving U.S. Representative. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and left-wing candidate Abdul El-Sayed to compete for the nomination to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).
McMorrow&#8217;s withdrawal dramatically reshapes a race Democrats must win if they hope to have any realistic chance of reclaiming the Senate majority in November.
The state senator, who launched her campaign positioning herself as an alternative to both Stevens and El-Sayed, thanked supporters in an <a href="https://x.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/2073823061191659714?s=20">X post</a> Sunday but offered no endorsement. &#8220;Today, I&#8217;m announcing that I am suspending my campaign for United States Senate,&#8221; McMorrow said. &#8220;I&#8217;m doing it with a deep, deep sense of gratitude.&#8221; While McMorrow promised to support the eventual Democratic nominee in the general election, she declined to back either of her former rivals.
Her departure sets up a two-candidate contest between Stevens, a four-term congresswoman backed by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and much of the party establishment, and El-Sayed, a progressive favorite endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and other prominent figures on the Democratic Left.
The ideological split has become yet another proxy battle over the future direction of the Democratic Party, with establishment leaders arguing Stevens is the strongest candidate to defeat Republican Mike Rogers in November, while the left-wing contends El-Sayed represents the party&#8217;s energized grassroots base.
McMorrow&#8217;s exit also removes a political obstacle that had kept some influential Michigan Democrats from taking sides. Several Democrats had remained neutral because of their relationships with McMorrow, but her departure immediately prompted movement toward Stevens. According to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/michigan-senate-democratic-primary-mcmorrow-stevens-elsayed-2f99c6e065402f730fc8925b5a43c788">Associated Press</a>, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel endorsed the congresswoman shortly after McMorrow announced she was suspending her campaign. McMorrow&#8217;s departure also clears the way for other prominent Michigan Democrats who had remained neutral because of their relationships with her to endorse Stevens, whose backers argue she is the party&#8217;s strongest general-election candidate.
El-Sayed, meanwhile, argued McMorrow&#8217;s departure highlighted what he described as establishment efforts to shape the primary. &#8220;We cannot allow the establishment to decide our nominee for us,&#8221; he wrote on <a href="https://x.com/AbdulElSayed/status/2073825501886705756?s=20">X</a> while inviting McMorrow supporters to join his campaign.
Stevens on the other hand <a href="https://x.com/HaleyforMI/status/2073825503769670132?s=20">responded</a> by praising McMorrow as &#8220;an important voice&#8221; in both the Senate race and the Michigan Legislature, saying she looked forward to working with her in the future while continuing to make the case that she is &#8220;the strongest Democrat to defeat Mike Rogers.&#8221;
McMorrow entered the race as one of Michigan Democrats&#8217; rising stars, but her campaign struggled to keep pace financially as millions of dollars in outside spending flowed into the race, much of it boosting Stevens through establishment-aligned super PACs. She emerged as one of El-Sayed&#8217;s most vocal Democratic critics after he campaigned alongside left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who has repeatedly courted controversy with inflammatory comments about Israel and the United States. McMorrow condemned the appearance, comparing Piker to white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes and warning that Democrats should not elevate figures who &#8220;say extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks and views.&#8221; 
The criticism did little to slow El-Sayed&#8217;s momentum, instead her comments coincided with her own decline in the polls. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/michigan-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html">Recent polling</a> showed McMorrow falling into a distant third place behind both Stevens and El-Sayed. The Democratic nominee will face Republican Mike Rogers, who narrowly lost Michigan&#8217;s Senate race in 2024 to Sen. Elissa Slotkin.
With Republicans defending relatively few competitive Senate seats this cycle, Democrats need to hold Michigan while flipping multiple GOP-held seats to regain control of the chamber, making the battleground state&#8217;s primary one of the most closely watched as November draws nearer.

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President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Rep. John James in his run for Michigan governor on Monday, shaking up a crowded GOP primary field. 
Michigan Republicans are looking to flip control of the governor’s mansion for the first time since Rick Snyder left office in 2019. The race is projected to be close with a slight lean to Democrats. Republicans have not won a governor&#8217;s race in the state since the 2014 election.
“It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Congressman, John James, who is running to become the next Governor of the Beautiful State of Michigan!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116795357855328809">wrote</a> on Truth Social. “A West Point Graduate, Combat Pilot, Brave Iraq War Veteran, Successful Businessman and Job Creator, and now, as a Highly Respected U.S. Congressman, John has proven he has the Courage and Wisdom to deliver strong results for the incredible people of his wonderful State, and our Nation.”
James <a href="https://x.com/JohnJamesMI/status/2069145001242538129">thanked</a> Trump for his endorsement, calling him the “greatest” president of his lifetime. 
“Your endorsement is igniting a movement across Michigan, and we are ready to win!” James said. “Michigan families deserve better than what Jocelyn Benson and Gretchen Whitmer have delivered.”
“Their radical agenda has driven up costs, put violent criminals back on our streets, allowed non-citizens to vote, forced our daughters to compete against biological males, and left our children ranked 44th in the nation in reading while pushing gender ideology instead of math, science, and literacy,” he added. “That ends now.”
Trump has long supported James’ political campaigns, including his unsuccessful Senate bids in 2018 and 2020. 
After Trump announced his endorsement, state Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt said he was ending his campaign for the nomination and backing James. 
“This campaign has always been about the people of Michigan and standing with President Trump to defeat the Democrats in November,” he said. “Today, I am suspending my campaign and proudly joining President Trump in endorsing John James as Michigan’s next Governor.”
Other candidates still in the race for the GOP nomination include businessman Perry Johnson and former Michigan attorney general Mike Cox. 
“President Trump received bad advice yet again. John James is a two-time statewide loser, and Michigan has already seen this movie before,” Johnson said, who ran for president in 2024 as a Republican. “If we want a Republican governor in Michigan, defeating John James in this primary is critical. I’ll be working twice as hard to make sure that happens.”
Democrat candidates for governor include Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Genesee County, Michigan, Sheriff Chris Swanson. 
The Michigan primary is set for August 4.

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The House struck comments made by Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller after he blasted Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib on the House floor Wednesday as someone who &#8220;advocates for terrorists on a daily basis&#8221; — but a look at Tlaib&#8217;s decade-long record suggests Miller&#8217;s got the receipts to back up every word.
Miller unloaded on Tlaib during debate, telling her directly: &#8220;Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, gentle lady from Michigan, and its members are butchers that you like to hang out with to a certain extent.&#8221;
When Tlaib erupted in anger, Miller didn&#8217;t flinch.
&#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m sorry. Are we getting a little emotional?&#8221; he shot back.
After the chairman asked him to suspend, Tlaib erupted again — and Miller doubled down: &#8220;I certainly believe you advocate for them, yes. You advocate for terrorists on a daily basis. You advocate for a terrorist regime every single day.&#8221;
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A chaotic exchange grinds House floor debate on Lebanon war powers to a halt.
Max Miller says of Rashida Tlaib: &quot;Hezbollah is a terrorist organization &#8230; and its members are butchers that you like to hang out with to a certain extent.&quot;
Tlaib moves to take down his words. &quot;Are… <a href="https://t.co/KDQ7qHGsFo">pic.twitter.com/KDQ7qHGsFo</a>
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Tlaib immediately demanded Miller&#8217;s words be stricken from the record, calling them &#8220;a direct attack on my character.&#8221; The House struck the comments after Miller refused to voluntarily retract his remarks, Axios <a href="https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/2062310787314524349">reported</a>.
&#8220;Such remarks impugn the patriotism and loyalty of a member of the House, which is not in order,&#8221; said California Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte, who was presiding over the House. &#8220;Without objection, the offending words are stricken from the record.&#8221;
The House itself has already weighed in on Tlaib&#8217;s record. In November 2023, the chamber voted 234–188 to censure her, with 22 Democrats crossing the aisle to support the rebuke. The resolution cited a years-long pattern of anti-Israel rhetoric, her <a href="https://d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/maxmiller.house.gov/uploads/2023/11/MILLOH_024_xml5.pdf">promotion</a> of the &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; slogan — a Hamas rallying cry calling for Israel&#8217;s destruction — and her inflammatory statement the day after the October 7 massacre, in which she called Israel an apartheid state and suggested the U.S. cut off support for its closest Middle East ally.
That was far from an isolated incident. She once said on the ‘‘Skullduggery” podcast, “There’s always kind of a calming feeling, I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust.&#8221;
In 2021, Tlaib <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-rashida-tlaib-speaks-at-fringe-rally-where-activists-call-for-the-elimination-of-israel">spoke at a rally</a> outside the State Department where activists chanted for the elimination of Israel — even as Palestinian terrorists were firing hundreds of rockets into Israeli cities. In 2020, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-expresses-support-for-palestinian-terrorist-who-tried-to-kill-israeli-soldiers">boosted</a> defenders of Ahmad Erekat, a man Israeli police say drove his car into a border checkpoint in a deliberate terrorist attack. In February 2024, she was the sole member of the entire House — Democrat or Republican — to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-votes-present-on-resolution-condemning-hamas-rape">refuse</a> to vote yes on a resolution condemning Hamas&#8217;s use of rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war, voting &#8220;present&#8221; instead.
She was also a member of a private Facebook group whose members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-is-a-member-of-facebook-group-that-praised-hamas-after-its-attack-on-israel-report">glorified</a> Hamas in the immediate aftermath of October 7, posting photos of Hamas fighters posing with elderly hostages and celebrating the slaughter of Israeli soldiers as &#8220;achievements.&#8221; The group&#8217;s founder — one of Tlaib&#8217;s key fundraisers — has posted videos questioning the Holocaust and calling Jews &#8220;satanic.&#8221;
Miller called Tlaib a terrorist advocate on the House floor. The House censured her. Her own colleagues slammed her. Her own Facebook group cheered Hamas.
Strike his words? They&#8217;re the most documented words spoken in Congress all week.

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House Strikes Rep’s ‘Terrorist’ Jab At Rashida Tlaib — But Her Own Record Tells The Story

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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has finally said the quiet part out loud.
The far-Left Democratic darling — currently locked in a three-way primary to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters — blew up his own outreach efforts at a &#8220;Jews for Abdul&#8221; campaign event in Pontiac, Michigan, after admitting he &#8220;struggles&#8221; to answer whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.
In a leaked audio recording obtained by <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/abdul-el-sayed-struggles-israel-right-to-exist-jewish-state/">Jewish Insider</a>, the Bernie Sanders-backed radical didn’t just sidestep the question — he turned on his own audience and demanded they justify Israel’s existence under “liberal values.”
&#8220;I often struggle with the question that people ask in this particular scenario, because what they now ask is, ‘Do you believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state,’ which, to me, forces the question of a definition of what a Jewish state means,” El-Sayed barked back at an audience member who called him out for dodging inquiries on the Jewish state.
He then took it a step further, aggressively turning the tables on the crowd. “I need folks who want to ask me that question [to explain] what it is that they mean by that, and how that is consistent with any form of liberal values that we say we believe in here in the United States,&#8221; El-Sayed said.
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SCOOP | Abdul El-Sayed, the far-left Democratic candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat, said at an event with Jewish supporters last week that he struggles to answer questions about whether he believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state.
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— Jewish Insider (@jewishinsider) <a href="https://twitter.com/jewishinsider/status/2059428334665162966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The epidemiologist and anti-establishment favorite then rolled out the standard far-Left playbook, smearing America&#8217;s ally by accusing Israel of implementing &#8220;apartheid&#8221; in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. He further grumbled that the question of Israel’s right to exist unfairly overlooks “the rights of people who’ve been displaced by Israeli action” dating back to 1948.
El-Sayed’s statements took place in front of a paltry audience of just a &#8220;few dozen&#8221; people, according to campaign photos — at least one of whom wasn&#8217;t even Jewish, according to Jewish Insider.
The shock audio drops a massive bomb on El-Sayed’s already controversial campaign, which has sent shockwaves of panic through Michigan&#8217;s sizable Jewish community. The leftist Muslim candidate has repeatedly faced fierce backlash for cozying up to toxic anti-Israel extremists.
El-Sayed sparked fury following a terrifying Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, where a fanatic attempted to murder 140 children by driving an explosive-laden truck into the synagogue&#8217;s preschool. El-Sayed rationalized the near-massacre, declaring that &#8220;hurt people hurt people.&#8221;
Worse yet, El-Sayed followed the synagogue attack by boasting about joint campaign appearances with Hasan Piker — a toxic, self-described Marxist Twitch streamer who has previously slurred Orthodox Jews as &#8220;inbred&#8221; and claimed America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Insiders say the leaked audio confirms what critics have warned about for months: El-Sayed is eagerly currying favor with the hardline Islamist political infrastructure in Dearborn. A previous leaked recording already caught El-Sayed ordering his staff to stay silent on the joint U.S.-Israeli elimination of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this year, explicitly admitting he didn&#8217;t want to anger Dearborn voters who would be &#8220;sad&#8221; over the death of the theocratic, terror-sponsoring butcher.
El-Sayed’s latest anti-Israel comments make it crystal clear whose side he&#8217;s on.

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“I’ve been to jail. I’ve been judged. And I’ve gotten back up.”
That’s not the opening line of a reality show. It’s part of a congressional campaign bio.
Michigan Democrat Shelby Campbell is going viral online after <a href="https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2056173673212788901">videos</a> showing her twerking on a kitchen counter exploded across social media just months before the state’s August primary election. And depending on who you ask, she’s either the future of “authentic” politics or a flashing warning sign of what happens when TikTok culture collides headfirst with Congress.
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For conservatives online, the clips immediately became a symbol of what they say modern Democrat politics increasingly rewards: viral attention, internet celebrity, and “authenticity” over professionalism, seriousness, or basic decorum.
The 32-year-old single mother and law student is running to represent Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, and she’s making it very clear she has zero interest in looking like a polished, traditional politician.
“I’m not here to pretend I’m perfect,” Campbell says directly on her campaign website.
That much is obvious.
The videos sparked immediate backlash and endless memes online, with conservative accounts roasting the clips as others rushed to defend her. Social media quickly turned the race into a full-blown internet spectacle, with critics mocking the campaign as influencer culture dressed up as public service.
But Campbell doesn’t seem interested in hiding from any of it. In fact, her entire campaign appears built around leaning into her past and presenting herself as unfiltered.
Her website also features four mugshots alongside her biography. She talks about previously working as a bartender, server, certified nursing assistant, and autoworker. She says she sold her car, rides a scooter, and uses public transportation. She also highlights being a first-generation college graduate who attended Wayne State University and studies law at Detroit Mercy.
And then there’s this line: “I’m not a regular politician, I’m an honest politician.”
To critics watching the videos circulate online, the pitch sounded less like honesty and more like an attempt to turn personal chaos into political branding.
Still, the message is clearly aimed at voters tired of perfectly scripted politicians pretending they’ve never made mistakes.
Others argued the campaign reflects a deeper cultural shift where going viral now matters more than appearing qualified to hold public office, and where internet clout can generate more attention than policy positions ever could.
Campbell argues she understands everyday struggles because she’s lived them herself. Her district, she notes, is heavily working class, with many residents employed in retail, healthcare, automotive, and service industries.
Welcome to 2026 politics. One candidate is talking about inflation, crime, and border security. Another just became internet-famous from a kitchen counter, and somehow that’s now part of the congressional conversation.

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Dem Hopeful Twerks Her Way Onto The Campaign Trail

Michigan Senate Democratic candidate Mallory McMorrow said on Sunday that deleting thousands of tweets trashing rural America reflects her authenticity rather than an effort to hide her past.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/kfile-mallory-mcmorrow-deleted-tweets">A CNN report</a> this week found that the Senate hopeful had deleted about 6,000 tweets — including posts mocking Middle America and bending the truth about where she was living, working, and voting. 
In a recent autobiography, McMorrow said she moved to Michigan in 2014, but on social media, she described herself as a California resident in 2016 and voted in California’s June 2016 primary, according to CNN. 
 Reporter Manu Raju pressed McMorrow on the contradictions. 
 “And I don’t need to tell you, but of course, you’re required to vote in the state where you’re a resident. So why were you voting in California two years after moving to Michigan?” Raju asked.
 &#8220;Like a lot of millennials, moving takes time,&#8221; McMorrow said, describing a &#8220;two-year process&#8221; before settling in Michigan from Southern California. &#8220;I registered to vote in Michigan in August of 2016 and voted in the general election in November that year.&#8221;
 McMorrow dodged when asked whether she should have voted in California while claiming to live in Michigan.
&#8220;We still had our place out in Southern California, and as I mentioned, we had multiple jobs. Moving is ugly. I wish we could have just up and moved in one fell swoop, but that&#8217;s not the case, just like it is for a lot of people,&#8221; she said. 
 Raju noted that in 2024, McMorrow criticized another Twitter user for voting in Michigan after moving to California.
 &#8220;You called it illegal then,&#8221; Raju told McMorrow. 
 &#8220;Yeah, absolutely, if you are doing that intentionally, after moving permanently to a place that is illegal,&#8221; she said.
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CNN: “Why would you be voting in California 2 years after moving to Michigan?”
MCMORROW: “Moving takes time.”
CNN: &#8220;You had criticized a Twitter user in 2024 for voting in Michigan after moving to California, you called it illegal&#8230;&#8221;
MCMORROW: “Yeah, absolutely.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kE4xYSuXdo">pic.twitter.com/kE4xYSuXdo</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/2050927855152898198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2026</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-dem-candidate-scrubs-social-media-after-trashing-rural-americans?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Top+Dem+Candidate+Scrubs+Social+Media+After+Trashing+Rural+Americans">Two days after President Trump </a>rocked the political establishment and defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democrat urged her followers to read a thread posted by journalist Patrick Thornton, who wrote, “All of this talk about coastal elites needing to understand more of America has it backwards.”
“It is much of white working class America that needs to reach outside its comfort zone and meet people not like them,” Thornton wrote at the time. “Many rural Americans have isolated themselves from the rest of the country. They live in very unrepresentative areas.” McMorrow said the thread “rings 100%.”
McMorrow, who currently serves in the Michigan State Senate, framed her comments as evidence of her authenticity. 
 &#8220;Was it the most eloquent tweet I&#8217;ve ever tweeted? No, I&#8217;ve tweeted 1000s of times. There is a level of authenticity and just grappling in the wake of the 2016 election, of how somebody like Donald Trump could have been elected.&#8221; 
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Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow defends her tweet calling middle Americans &#8220;backwards.&#8221;
CNN: “Do you stand by that sentiment that rural parts of America can learn from coastal elites?”
MCMORROW: &#8220;I stand by that.&#8221;
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In another tweet, McMorrow drew comparisons between Nazi Germany and the Trump Administration, a view she still holds today. 
“Do you personally see parallels between Nazi Germany and what’s happening under the Trump administration?” Manu Raju asked her.
&#8220;Yeah, I do. It is deeply concerning that we see an authoritarian slide,&#8221; McMorrow said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that a lot of people would argue that there are shades of authoritarianism here that we need to be deeply concerned about.&#8221; 
The winner of the divided Democratic primary, which also includes Abdul El-Sayed and Congresswoman Haley Stevens, will likely face Republican Mike Rogers in the general election.
&#8220;I tweeted normal things, like a normal person, and people are desperate for authenticity, so that is what we need in November,&#8221; McMorrow said.
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CNN: “Why would you be voting in California 2 years after moving to Michigan?”
MCMORROW: “Moving takes time.”
CNN: &#8220;You had criticized a Twitter user in 2024 for voting in Michigan after moving to California, you called it illegal&#8230;&#8221;
MCMORROW: “Yeah, absolutely.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kE4xYSuXdo">pic.twitter.com/kE4xYSuXdo</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/2050927855152898198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2026</a></blockquote>

Middle America-Hating Dem Calls For Authenticity. But What Happened To Her 6,000 Tweets?

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