Who is Abdul al-Sayed, the controversial candidate of the Democrats? Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, after the debate with Mike Rogers, his Republican opponent, among reporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on October 8, 1405. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic candidate, will become the first Muslim U.S. senator if he wins. He called Israel's war in Gaza "genocide" and opposed Iran's war, but when an Iranian-American student asked him to condemn the Revolutionary Guards, he spoke of the Iranians' right to self-determination.

Who is Abdul al-Sayed, the controversial candidate of the Democrats? Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, after the debate with Mike Rogers, his Republican opponent, among reporters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on October 8, 1405. Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic candidate, will become the first Muslim U.S. senator if he wins. He called Israel's war in Gaza "genocide" and opposed Iran's war, but when an Iranian-American student asked him to condemn the Revolutionary Guards, he spoke of the Iranians' right to self-determination.