Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed was born and raised in southeast Michigan, the son of an Egyptian immigrant father, and lives in Ann Arbor. He graduated from the University of Michigan, earned a medical degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. His campaign says he rebuilt the Detroit Health Department after the city's bankruptcy and later restructured the Wayne County Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services, serving 1.8 million residents. He wrote Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide and in 2020 served on the Biden campaign's Unity Task Force on health care. In 2026 he ran for the open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and won the August 4 Democratic primary with 48.5 percent to Rep. Haley Stevens's 47.5 percent, with state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who had withdrawn, at 4.0 percent. He faces Republican Mike Rogers, who was unopposed in his primary, on November 3.