Barack Obama to rally for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan before key US Senate race – US politics live

Former President Barack Obama appeared in Detroit on Saturday to back Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democrat running for U. S. Senate in Michigan. The event fell on the opening day of in-person early voting, ten days before the election. Senator Elissa Slotkin told the crowd that Democrats win when Obama comes to Detroit, and noted that Donald Trump is expected in Michigan Sunday, with JD Vance due later in the week. Earlier, Obama campaigned in Cleveland for Senate nominee Sherrod Brown and gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, denouncing two years of chaos and corruption under Trump and criticizing an ad from Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, according to The Guardian.

El-Sayed has become a focus of what researchers describe as the harshest anti-Muslim hostility since the aftermath of 9/11. Rather than simply rebutting accusations, he presses questioners to justify their assumptions. A town hall exchange, in which a man demanded he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, has drawn more than 50 million views.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →