Campaign of ‘hate’ towards El-Sayed is ‘beginning to backfire’: Rep. Debbie Dingell

Representative Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Oct. 30, 2026, that the hostile campaign aimed at Senate candidate El-Sayed is starting to backfire. She characterized the effort against him as one of hate. Her interview came with Michigan's marquee Senate race four days away, and she assessed the contest's current state, according to NBC News.

Separately, the DOJ asked that Alaska ballots ranking Dan J. Sullivan in that state's Senate race be separated out from the others, according to a breaking-news alert on the page.

Accompanying video segments sketched a wider midterm picture. They touched on whether an Alaska strategy built around a spoiler candidate is legal, how big wins could propel Jon Ossoff and Josh Shapiro toward 2028, and Trump's defense of an Ohio ad featuring Amy Acton's mother. Others covered a forecaster moving Ohio's race away from Republicans, border security, gun control and rural voters, and Democratic hopefuls in Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas, Kansas, Nevada and Ohio.

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