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The ‘Voter’ Who Challenged El-Sayed Was Actually a GOP Operative
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The Guardian
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Man who heckled El-Sayed is son of Republican adviser who was paid for ...
2 days agoTeepell is the son of Timothy "Timmy" Teepell, a longtime strategist for the Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley as well as former Republican Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal.
Newsweek
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Who is Tommy? Man in Muslim Brotherhood Clash With El-Sayed ... - Newsweek
3 days agoThe article added that Teepell is the son of Timmy Teepell, a Republican strategist who reportedly worked for Congressman and then Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal from 2004 to 2011, as ...
newsminimalist.com
Ex-GOP staffer with Christian nationalist ties exposed as heckler of El ...
4 days agoAs first reported by Kabas on her Substack The Handbasket, Tommy was actually Thomas Teepell, who previously served as operations director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) until February of this year. Teepell's father is Timmy Teepell, a GOP strategist who worked for former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal through his climb from congressman to governor.
The Guardian
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10/07/2026
Rep. Keith Self warns that "we are losing Texas today to Islam": "I have no idea why this is not more of an election issue across the country."
Jack Hibbs claims that the Founding Fathers based the separation of power on Isaiah 33:22. That is nonsense.
William Wolfe is calling on President
Donald Trump to carry out "the greatest deportation campaign in American history."
Lorenzo Sewell says the candidacy of of Abdul El-Sayed for the U.S. Senate in Michigan is "God's judgement upon America."
Lance Wallnau is freaking out over the possibility of Democrats gaining control of Congress in the midterm elections: "We cannot let them get control of the cockpit. Like Al Qaeda, they'll crash this plane."
Finally, Alex McFarland is also freaking out over the election: "If these woke, pro-Islam, anti-American, Marxist, globalist, anti-constitutionalist, antisemitic, hate Israel, pro-Palestine; if certain bad actors got sent to Washington, not only would it hamstring the final two years of President Trump's administration, folks, it would, I believe, shorten the life of the United States of America."
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Trump raises eyebrows with 'Hail Mary' pass to save Collins' hide
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mma
08/31/26 2:46 PM EDT
Embracing blatant Islamophobia, CBS News makes bizarre attempt to tie El-Sayed to 9/11
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8 26 Abdul El-Sayed - Wikipedia
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (IPA: [ˈel sæjjed];[a]^ born October 31, 1984) is an American politician and epidemiologist who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.[2]^ A progressive Democrat, he was the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services of Wayne County, Michigan, from 2023 to 2025, and was a candidate in the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election.
El-Sayed is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Oriel College, Oxford, attending them on a full-tuition scholarship and a Rhodes Scholarship, respectively. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University.
El-Sayed was an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University from 2014 to 2015. He was the executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit from 2015 to 2017. His publications in public health include three books and several academic journal articles.
Early life and education
Abdul El-Sayed was born on October 31, 1984, in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, Michigan, to Egyptian immigrant parents.[3][4][5]^ He grew up in the Detroit area with his father, Mohamed, and stepmother, Jacqueline, a native of Gratiot County, Michigan, both of whom are engineers.[6]^ His father grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and immigrated to the U.S. to study engineering at Wayne State University.[7]^ His mother, Fatten Elkomy, is a nurse practitioner in Missouri.[8]^
El-Sayed graduated from Bloomfield Hills Andover High School, where he was a team captain for wrestling, football, and lacrosse, in 2003.[7]^ He then attended the University of Michigan, where he majored in biology and political science and played on the men's club lacrosse team.[9]^ He graduated with a bachelor's degree with highest distinction in 2007 and delivered that year's commencement speech.[10]^
El-Sayed received a full-tuition scholarship to the University of Michigan Medical School, where he completed two years of medical school.[11]^ There he led a student medical mission to Peru and founded a student organization that raised money and coordinated community service for a local free clinic.[9]^ As a second-year medical student, he received a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oriel College, Oxford, where he completed a D.Phil. in public health in 2011.[12][13]^ At Oxford, he earned a full blue as captain of the men's lacrosse team.[14]^ In 2014, he completed a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and was funded by a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and the Medical Scientist Training Program.[15][16]^ El-Sayed did not pursue a medical license, and instead went into public health epidemiology work.[17]^
Career in public health
El-Sayed in 2016
El-Sayed is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters on public health policy, social epidemiology, and health disparities.[18]^
Public health professor
In 2014, El-Sayed joined the faculty at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as an assistant professor in the epidemiology department. He served as director of Columbia's Systems Science Program and Global Research Analytics for Population Health.[19]^ He has received several research awards, including being named one of the Carnegie Council's Policy Innovators.[20]^ He created and taught the Mailman School's first course on systems science and population health. He and Sandro Galea co-edited a textbook on the topic Systems Science and Population Health, published in 2017 by Oxford University Press.[21]^
Health Director of Detroit
In August 2015, Mayor Mike Duggan appointed El-Sayed Health Officer and Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department, making him, at 30 years old, the youngest health officer in a major U.S. city at the time. In that role, he was charged with rebuilding the Detroit Health Department after government public health activities were provided by a nonprofit in the course of the City of Detroit's municipal bankruptcy in 2012.[19]^ In his first year as director he led efforts to oppose increases in sulfur dioxide emissions by Marathon Petroleum's Southwest Refinery, which resulted in reductions in overall emissions.[22]^ He also led efforts to test Detroit schools for lead in the wake of the Flint water crisis, provide free glasses to children in Detroit city schools, and transform the city's troubled Animal Control department.[23][24][25][26]^
El-Sayed was appointed to the governor's statewide Childhood Lead Elimination Board.[27]^ He also served on the State of Michigan's Public Health Advisory Commission and the Advisory Committee to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Healthy People program.[28][29]^
In 2016, El-Sayed was named one of Crain's Detroit's "40 under 40" and the Michigan League of Conservation Voters' "Public Official of the Year".[30][31]^ In 2017, the University of Michigan awarded him a Bicentennial Alumni Award.[32]^
Since 2019, El-Sayed has hosted America Dissected with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a podcast about politics and public health produced by Crooked Media.[33]^
Health Director of Wayne County (2023–2025)
In December 2022, El-Sayed was named director of Wayne County's Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services.[34][35]^ He assumed the role in March 2023 and resigned in April 2025.[36][37]^
Political career
2018 gubernatorial campaign
Further information: 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election
On February 9, 2017, the Detroit News reported that El-Sayed would resign as health director to run for governor of Michigan in the 2018 Democratic Party primary.[38]^ He officially announced his candidacy on February 25, 2017.[7**]^ El-Sayed was inspired to run for governor after the Flint water crisis, saying: "I watched as Governor Snyder and his team of accountants were cutting costs and cutting corners. Their inattention to communities ultimately poisoned thousands of children—and those children were the very ones that I was serving at the helm of the health department. ... And that's something I didn't believe in. I believe in government as something we do in this country for the people and by the people".[24]^
El-Sayed's campaign logo in 2018
El-Sayed pledged to accept no campaign donations from corporations, and raised over $5 million from individual donations.[39]
El-Sayed was endorsed by U.S. senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and 2017 Women's March organizer Linda Sarsour.[40][41][42]^ He was also endorsed by the organization Justice Democrats and The Nation magazine.[43][44]^ In the August 7 primary, he received 340,560 votes, or about 30% of the vote, losing to Gretchen Whitmer.[45]^
In September 2018, El-Sayed founded Southpaw Michigan, a political action committee, to help elect progressive candidates and support ballot initiatives in Michigan.[46][37]^ In 2020, he served on the Joe Biden–Bernie Sanders Unity Task Force on healthcare.[47]^
2026 Senate campaign
El-Sayed at a campaign event at Michigan Technological University in 2025
Further information: 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan § Democratic primary
On April 17, 2025, El-Sayed announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan after incumbent Gary Peters announced he would not run for reelection.[48][49]^
On April 7, 2026, El-Sayed held campaign events at several Michigan university campuses with U.S. representative Summer Lee and political streamer Hasan Piker.[50][51]^ Piker's association with the campaign became a point of contention within the Democratic Party over his past comments about the September 11 attacks, Hamas, and Israel.[52]^ El-Sayed defended campaigning with Piker as an effort to engage with his audience, adding that he doesn't agree with everything Piker has said.[51]^
After Mallory McMorrow withdrew from the Democratic primary in July, news outlets called the race a choice between the party's moderate, establishment-backed wing, represented by Haley Stevens, and its progressive wing, represented by El-Sayed.[53][54]^
The race was called by the Associated Press on the morning of August 5. He is set to face Mike Rogers in November.[55][56]^
Political positions
El-Sayed is a progressive Democrat.[57][48]^ He supports Medicare for All and co-wrote a book on the topic.[58][59]^ He has vowed not to accept PAC donations, accepting donations from individuals only.[60]^ He served as a national campaign surrogate for Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign, speaking on Sanders's behalf at events and in the media.[61][62][63]^
In 2018, El-Sayed supported repealing Michigan state laws that block local governments from levying a municipal sales tax or enacting rent control laws.[64][65]^
Economy
El-Sayed supports stronger enforcement of anti-monopoly laws and the elimination of corporate tax breaks.[66]^ In June 2026, he released a plan calling for more regulations on artificial intelligence companies.[67]
Environment
In 2025, El-Sayed's campaign website identified clean air and water as a priority, and he called for tougher enforcement of environmental laws, merging the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality into a single Department of the Environment, and achieving "100% renewable energy" in the state by 2030.[68][69]^
Foreign policy
El-Sayed generally opposes United States military aid to foreign countries, but has cited U.S. actions during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and in Serbia during the 1990s as examples of beneficial U.S. intervention.[70][71]^
In 2026, he said he would end U.S. military assistance to Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.[72]^
Israel
El-Sayed has criticized Israel over its conduct in the Gaza war describing it as a genocide; in a January 2024 podcast, he called the war in the Gaza Strip a public health catastrophe and called for a ceasefire.[73]^ El-Sayed has called the Gaza genocide a morality test, asking: "If you can't call it what it is, which is a genocide, then how are you going to stand up to Donald Trump? How are you going to stand up to pharma CEOs?"[74]^
In April 2026, El-Sayed said in a CNN interview: "Killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil. It's not how evil is this one versus that one. Hamas: evil. Israeli government: evil. We can say both."[75]^ In July, he said, "The question of Israel's existence is not a question. I'm not going to play this gotcha game about whether or not it has a right to exist. The question, ultimately, is about whether or not we want a politics that dignifies equal rights."[76]^
El-Sayed believes Israel to be an ethno-state. On the topic, he stated that "I don't believe in ethno-states, and I certainly don't believe that our country is responsible to sustain ethno-states."[77]^ El-Sayed stated this rejection of ethno-nationalism has nothing to do with whether a country has a 'right to exist,' commenting that he "just [disputes] the idea that you should have an ethno-state" and stating he objects to Egyptian and Saudi Arabian ethno-nationalism in the same way he objects to Israeli policies.[78]^
El-Sayed attributed the 2026 Iran war to AIPAC's influence in US politics. He called Israel a "rogue state" that is committing "human rights abuses, genocide, and apartheid" and said the U.S. should "stop funding the Israeli military unilateral blank checks".[79]^
Russia
In March 2022, El-Sayed called the Russo-Ukrainian war "a war between democracy and autocracy, between self-government and fascism", condemning Russian president Vladimir Putin as an "authoritarian dictator".[80]^
In April 2025, El-Sayed said that U.S. military aid to Ukraine is different from aid to Israel, as the former is in accordance with several multinational organizations.[70]^ In September 2025, he said that military aid to Ukraine was about "enforcing the rules of the rules-based international order in accordance with our allies".[81]^
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
El-Sayed supports abolishing ICE, arguing that it no longer functions as a legitimate law enforcement agency. While he has expressed support for securing the Mexico–United States border and for "certain kinds" of border law enforcement, he has called ICE "corrupted at its soul".[57][82]^
Unionization
El-Sayed supports unionization, having been a member of the SEIU, AFT, UAW, and National Writers Union. He has said union expansion is necessary to protect "worker dignity" in response to the growth of AI. He has expressed support for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act alongside unionization efforts among further professions, such as physicians.[83]^ His campaign was endorsed by the UAW in June 2026, alongside Jocelyn Benson's gubernatorial campaign.[84]^
Personal life
El-Sayed was born and raised in Southeast Michigan, and lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Sarah Jukaku, and their two daughters.[85]^ He is Muslim.[35]^ He is a member of the National Writers Union, American Federation of Teachers Local 477 and 6244, SEIU Local 500, and the American Association of University Professors.[15]^
Bibliography
El-Sayed, Abdulrahman; Galea, Sandro, eds. (2017). Systems Science and Population Health. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-049241-0.
El-Sayed, Abdul (2020). Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic. New York: Abrams. ISBN 978-1-4197-4302-3.
El-Sayed, Abdul; Johnson, Micah (2021). Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-005662-9.
Notes
El-Sayed pronounces his own name in a video posted on his Twitter page.[1]^
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The Michigan Senate race, which is expected to see razor-thin margins in the general election, has become ground zero for the Majority Democrats network’s efforts to shape the Democratic primaries.
In that primary, the new political machine has thrown its weight behind McMorrow, a millennial state lawmaker who quickly rose to leadership in the state Senate and
in 2022 bashing Republican demagoguery on LGBTQ issues.
She’s facing off against El-Sayed, a progressive who has campaigned with popular streamer Hasan Piker, and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who is favored by Democratic leadership and widely considered to be the pick of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).