Healthcare
Supports Medicare for All.
“pass Medicare for All”Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.
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THE 2026 CANDIDATE FILE
Candidate for U.S. Senate · Michigan
Source checked Nov 4, 2026, 1:50 PM Eastern.
Associated Press via NPR. This call does not certify the result or change who is in office.
Certification: pending. MI · Official state election information
See the state election authority for official reporting. MI · Official state election information
THE PERSON
Abdul El-Sayed is a physician and epidemiologist who previously led health departments in Detroit and Wayne County, Michigan.
Background sources checked October 26, 2026.
THE POLICIES
Campaign promises are labeled separately from past actions. These are sourced positions, not endorsements or predictions. No stance is assigned from party affiliation.
Supports Medicare for All.
“pass Medicare for All”Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.
Lists affordable housing for all among his campaign priorities.
Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.Lists clean air and water as campaign priorities.
Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.Calls for removing corporate money from politics, ending gerrymandering, and making voting easier.
Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.Supports an immediate arms embargo on Israel covering offensive and defensive weapons. Calls for enforcing U.S. conditions on military aid and sales and opposes unconditional military funding to Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
“I support an immediate arms embargo on Israel”Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.
Describes Israel’s conduct in Gaza as genocide and opposes U.S. military support that he says enables it, settlement activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and what he describes as attempted annexation in southern Lebanon.
Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.Supports equal rights and self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis. Says he would support either two states or a shared state if both peoples choose that arrangement on equal terms.
“equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination”Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.
Supports restoring U.S. foreign aid, including funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.Opposes the war with Iran and calls for an immediate end to hostilities. Opposes a nuclear-armed Iran and favors diplomacy of the kind used in the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Source checked October 26, 2026 · Publication date shown in the linked source when available.THE ELECTION
U.S. Senate · November 3, 2026
Candidate listing checked November 3, 2026.
Michigan Department of State · Official November general election candidate listing ↗Portrait source ↗Photo: Conlan Houston · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped to fit
The candidate’s name and party follow the official ballot source. Backgrounds and issue positions are checked separately. A candidate is not an officeholder-elect unless a verified result establishes that status.