THE MICHIGAN BRIEF Nominee: Abdul El-Sayed. Opponent: Mike Rogers. Seat: U.S. Senate. Who is paying Los Angeles with the Soros family. Schumer’s PAC, $30 million. A New York fundraiser, Mamdani and AOC expected. Working Families Party took $6.5 million this cycle from Soros-funded Democracy PAC. Six days after he announced, Wayne County put his LLC, AME Higher, on a $9,000-a-month contract, about $300 an hour. Disclosure: $64,000 salary, $103,000 member draw. The deal ended December 23, 2025. The campaign paid consultant Machhadie Assi at least $26,800. Her LinkedIn includes Afghan refugee work. He hits Rogers on data centers. He owns the fund that rides them. Who will not stand with him Rep. Hillary Scholten still will not endorse. Reason: Hasan Piker. Piker was at the August 3 Detroit event, at Michigan and Michigan State in April, and at a pool party the night before the primary. Piker said America deserved 9/11, then walked it back. El-Sayed calls it a conversation. Scholten, on tape: a real turnout problem in West Michigan. Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union listed him, then removed him. The president says clerical error. A firefighter told The Midwesterner it was not. What he made private More than 100 videos, before the 2026 run. In the pile: defund the police, criticism of Fourth of July fireworks, a proposal to amend the Second Amendment into a right to health care. Detroit News, which endorsed Rogers, also flagged deleted posts on America after 9/11. On Politico he said some of the defund, prison-abolition, and cash-bail positions are “really good.” The slogan was dumb. The policies stayed. 2016: “Cars are the modern-day cigarette.” He says he does not want a ban. The UAW endorsed him anyway. His health-care line: Medicare for All, like public schools. Michigan is 44th in fourth-grade literacy and 34th in math. What the paper trail says 2016, on stage: “I carry dual citizenship.” A résumé and a 2014 CV said the same, U.S. and Egypt. The campaign says family mix-up, no paperwork. He still hits Rogers for a house in Florida. November 25, 2012, Al-Ahram Gate: signature 33, “Dr. Abdul Rahman El-Sayed,” New York, on a statement by Morsi supporters calling on the president to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.” Free Beacon says sources confirm it is him. The campaign did not answer. On Fox, MacCallum says he stayed at “any act of political violence” and would not name the Brotherhood. The letter was not the question. Disclosure: a UAE rental, and a debt to an Emirati developer. The family file Court filings: sister-in-law in the terrorist screening database, an SSSS boarding pass. The government will not confirm or deny. Her father has sat on the CAIR-Michigan board and donated. Half-sister Eman Abdelhadi: two felony aggravated-battery counts after she allegedly spat on a state trooper at an ICE protest. Not convicted. The campaign says he disagrees with her politics. October 24 Obama, Detroit. Harris was already there. Cornel West: Obama opposes the red lines El-Sayed runs on. Scott Jennings: if they were confident, Obama would not be going. Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of Within Our Lifetime, quote-posted the announcement: “Fuck you and your war criminal friends.” Her charge, not a finding: he calls it a genocide, then campaigns with the people she says armed it. The man who worked for him Former aide Jordan Domingue, bodyguard and assistant on two campaigns: “manufactured man.” The message changes with the room. The “10 years of public service” line was a lie he knew on the payroll. Michigan. Same nominee. Same record.