{"id":339,"date":"2026-07-05T19:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=339"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:16:25","slug":"aoc-endorses-el-sayed-in-michigan-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"AOC endorses El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/5d\/40\/928554a44881ba3494c60fb3bea7\/u-s-congress-93922.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) endorsed Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s campaign for Michigan\u2019s open Senate seat on Thursday, a decision that comes as progressives look to capitalize off a series of recent high-profile primary victories in New York, Colorado and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Her endorsement could provide El-Sayed with a critical boost just over a month before the state\u2019s Aug. 4 primary. The former public health official is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/06\/27\/michigan-senate-democratic-primary-mackinac-island-00969506\" target=\"_blank\">locked in a heated contest<\/a> against Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow for the right to take on Republican Mike Rogers in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>It also comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/michigan-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\">El-Sayed has risen to the top of the pack<\/a> in recent public polling.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually any Democratic path to flipping the Senate in this year\u2019s midterms would see the party hold the open Michigan Senate seat, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/28\/gary-peters-not-running-for-reelection-in-battleground-michigan-00200925\" target=\"_blank\">two-term Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) retiring<\/a> at the end of his term.<\/p>\n<p>The race has emerged as perhaps the largest battleground over the ideological future of the party. El-Sayed, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018, has collected endorsements from progressives, while Stevens has the tacit backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, with AIPAC also boosting her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed, Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/02\/us\/politics\/ocasio-cortez-endorses-abdul-el-sayed-in-crucial-michigan-senate-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">said in an interview with The New York Times<\/a>, is her party\u2019s best chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite our ideological differences and whatever disagreements there are in the party, every single one of us sees this moment as existential,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think many people are willing to put aside differences in order to give us the best chance at winning. And I think that Abdul gives us that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) endorsed Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s campaign for Michigan\u2019s open Senate seat on Thursday, a decision that comes as progressives look to capitalize off a series of recent high-profile primary victories in New York, Colorado and elsewhere. Her endorsement could provide El-Sayed with a critical boost just over a month before the state\u2019s Aug&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/5d\/40\/928554a44881ba3494c60fb3bea7\/u-s-congress-93922.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}