Michigan

Long shotR -4.9closes 9:00 pm ET
29% in · El-Sayed +5

Who's running

Abdul El-SayedD51.8% · 29% in

Abdul El-Sayed is a doctor who has never held elected office. He ran Detroit's health department from 2015 to 2017, and Wayne County's health department from 2022 to 2025. He lost a race for governor in 2018, then built a following with a podcast and a book. He won a very close primary in August 2026 even though outside groups spent more than $60 million against him.

What they say they'll do
  • He wants Medicare for All so health care is a right for everyone.
  • He wants to get big money and corporate cash out of politics.
  • He wants to put more money in working people's pockets and wipe out medical debt.
Mike RogersR46.4% · 29% in

Mike Rogers is an Army veteran and a former FBI agent. He served in the Michigan state Senate from 1995 to 2000, then in Congress for 14 years, where he led the House Intelligence Committee. After that he worked in business and cybersecurity. He ran for this same Senate seat in 2024 and lost by about 19,000 votes.

What they say they'll do
  • He wants to bring factory jobs back to Michigan.
  • He wants to lower the cost of gas, groceries, and medicine.
  • He wants to protect Social Security and Medicare.

The tea ☕

  • Rogers owns a big house in Florida and listed it as his main home for a tax break in 2023. Critics call him a 'Florida man.' A fact check found he now lives in Michigan and nobody is questioning his right to be on the ballot.
  • After the primary, Rogers said El-Sayed 'believes America deserved 9/11.' FactCheck.org rated that false. El-Sayed has said America did not deserve 9/11.
  • In 2020, El-Sayed said 'we do need to defund the police' and posted about it many times. He now says he wants more money for police. PolitiFact rated Rogers' claim that El-Sayed supports defunding police Mostly False.
  • Rogers has said El-Sayed, whose parents came from Egypt, is 'not one of us.' El-Sayed calls the attacks Islamophobic and has called Rogers a bootlicker for Trump.
  • The first debate on October 8 got so heated that the two kept arguing during the commercial break. The moderator said he had never seen that happen before.
  • In August, Rogers' team asked the pro-Israel group AIPAC to stay out of the race. By October he said he would take their help, and AIPAC's super PAC sent up to $9 million to a group backing him.
  • Before the debate, President Trump posted that El-Sayed was a 'RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer.' El-Sayed replied that the president says that about him every day.

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