这位民主党人曾与称赞哈马斯和真主党的人士同台，却坚称自己信奉资本主义
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密歇根州2026年参议院竞选局势升温，进步派候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德因其政策纲领面临激烈批评。佛罗里达州众议员凯特·卡马克抨击赛义德的社会主义议程，将他的竞选策略比作二手车销售员。卡马克警告称，这些进步政策最终会掏空工薪阶层家庭的钱包，却只会换来空头承诺。
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密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德正试图在选民面前表现得更为温和，与此同时，他仍与那些立场远比他公开支持的政策更为激进的人士保持联系。
自2025年4月宣布参选参议员以来，赛义德已经放弃了许多此前持有的立场，并从网上删除了大量竞选前的左翼内容。他还多次坚称自己“不是社会主义者”。
尽管试图让选民相信，将他描述为左翼意识形态分子并不准确，但赛义德仍在竞选活动中与一系列存在争议记录或观点的政治盟友和支持者同台亮相，并接受了他们的背书。
赛义德与哈森·皮克的争议随他进入民主党大会，犹太选民倒戈
美国参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德2026年8月29日在兰辛举行的密歇根州民主党大会上发表讲话。(保罗·斯坦豪瑟/福克斯新闻)
除了与曾声称美国“活该”遭遇9·11袭击的Twitch主播哈森·皮克同台，赛义德还与同情恐怖主义的伊斯兰神职人员、被指控反犹的个人以及多名知名社会主义者和亲社会主义活动人士建立了联系。
“阿卜杜勒明确表示，除了他本人和他的竞选发言人之外，没有人能代表他的竞选团队，”赛义德的竞选发言人科尔·沃兹尼亚克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
赛义德的竞选团队试图将叙事转向共和党，指出与他对决的共和党候选人迈克·罗杰斯也有自己的争议性关联。
罗杰斯竞选团队未回应置评请求，其麾下部分人士也对2020年大选结果提出质疑，并主张禁止同性婚姻。尽管如此，共和党仍将赛义德与争议人物的关联作为密歇根州竞选活动的焦点。
深陷社会主义者圈子
“我不是社会主义者，”赛义德7月对CNN表示，“我信奉资本主义，我只是认为资本主义必须受到监管。”
尽管有此番表态以及其他类似言论，赛义德在担任公众人物期间仍与社会主义者过从甚密。
佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯被一些人视为美国社会主义的化身，他曾支持赛义德2018年州长竞选的失利之举。这位佛蒙特州社会主义者也是最早支持赛义德2026年参议院竞选的人士之一，在他宣布参选当天就为其背书。
桑德斯并非唯一支持赛义德参选参议员的社会主义者。众议员拉希达·特莱布、萨默·李和亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹都是直言不讳的支持者。
顶尖民主党候选人在多年深陷社会主义圈子后，语出惊人地改口
阿卜杜勒·赛义德2026年8月5日在密歇根州底特律赢得民主党参议院提名后举行新闻发布会。(里奇·埃德森/福克斯新闻)
长期以来，赛义德一直与美国民主社会主义者组织保持一致，直到最近才为了赢得竞争激烈的参议院选举而与这个崛起的左翼组织拉开距离。
2017年至2020年间，这位密歇根州民主党人在六场美国民主社会主义者组织分会举办的活动上发表了演讲，其中包括2019年他作为主旨演讲者出席的一场筹款活动。此外，美国民主社会主义组织官员7月告诉《政客》杂志，他们正在调动资源帮助赛义德赢得民主党初选。
“严格来说，实际上我都不属于美国民主社会主义组织，”赛义德7月对《华尔街日报》表示。
然而，社会主义组织者称他是“底特律美国民主社会主义组织的长期友人”。
最近，有消息曝光，与赛义德一同竞选的密歇根州国会候选人、美国民主社会主义组织成员威廉·劳伦斯在一场马克思主义活动人士主持的播客中呼吁“摧毁美国生活方式”。
“我在想，我们如何才能为美国人民激发一种富足感，同时坦率地说，摧毁美国生活方式，以及这个词所带来的负面内涵和物质现实，”他在该期节目中说道。
“烈士”与“圣战者”
赛义德在密歇根州阿拉伯裔选民中表现强劲，帮助他在8月的民主党初选中获胜。赛义德一直深度参与该州穆斯林社区事务，包括与那些就以色列、哈马斯和真主党发表过争议性言论的人士建立关系。
“烈士”：密歇根民主党提名称赞真主党的候选人，取代犹太董事
哈桑·皮克（左）在2026年4月7日密歇根大学安娜堡分校的竞选集会上聆听阿卜杜勒·赛义德演讲。(朱莉娅·德马雷·尼基森/美联社照片)
今年4月，竞选密歇根大学董事会董事的阿米尔·马克莱德将真主党——美国认定的恐怖组织——的遇难成员称为“烈士”，并在一场竞选集会上介绍了赛义德。
随后在6月，赛义德出席了伊玛目哈桑·卡兹维尼的美国伊斯兰研究所开幕式，向他表示“衷心祝贺”，并称他的清真寺“令人惊叹”。
卡兹维尼历来发表过争议言论。其中包括声称以色列是伊斯兰国的幕后黑手，称被击毙的真主党领导人是“抵抗运动”的英雄，以及称桑德斯“尽管是犹太人，但仍值得尊敬”。
桑德斯2020年总统竞选团队谴责卡兹维尼是反犹分子。卡兹维尼随后在7月的布道中敦促他的会众投票给赛义德，称这样做是“道德责任”和“宗教义务”。
在卡兹维尼研究所的开幕式上，赛义德与谢赫·法德尔·萨赫拉尼同台，这位神职人员称赞哈马斯10月7日的恐怖袭击，并淡化了大屠杀中遇难者的人数。
赛义德将与有激进过往的神职人员共同出席大型伊斯兰大会
密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德2026年8月2日在底特律举行的新闻发布会上回答记者提问。(保罗·斯坦豪瑟/福克斯新闻)
9月5日，赛义德将在北美伊斯兰协会年度大会的另一个舞台上与卡兹维尼同台。
一同出席的还有伊玛目巴希尔·贝里，他曾祈祷真主赐予加沙的伊斯兰圣战士兵“一场伟大的胜利”；以及西拉杰·瓦哈杰，他被列为1993年世界贸易中心恐怖袭击案的潜在同谋，但从未因此被起诉。
赛义德的宗教观点让一些观察人士感到困惑。这位民主党人支持堕胎和儿童变性手术的无障碍获取，但也表示希望按照伊斯兰教法生活，并将他的信仰描述为对其人生观至关重要。
与伊斯兰民族组织人物的联系
赛义德曾同台亮相或为之背书的一些人士与伊斯兰民族组织存在关联。该组织是1930年代由黑人民族主义者创立的宗教组织，大多数伊斯兰领袖并不将其视为正统穆斯林教派。
伊斯兰民族组织教导称，黑人是最初的人类，白人是由邪恶的黑人科学家亚库布创造的。该组织的教义将白人种族描述为天生腐败，历史上一直压迫黑人，尽管它也声称黑人种族优越。
目前，伊斯兰民族组织由路易斯·法拉坎领导。
法拉坎指责犹太人是“美国人民的邪恶欺骗者”，“吸干了他们的血”，随后暗示“美国人民永远不会自由”，除非他们从他所说的犹太人对美国政府施加的“巨大影响力”中解放出来。他还称犹太人为“白蚁”，并暗示白人总体上是“地球上的臭鼬”，尚未完全进化。
赛义德赞扬曾称赞臭名昭著的反犹分子、称犹太人为“白蚁”的牧师的背书
阿卜杜勒·赛义德2026年8月29日在密歇根州兰辛举行的密歇根州民主党2026年提名大会前接受媒体采访。(莎拉·赖斯/彭博社/盖蒂图片社)
尽管伊斯兰民族组织的立场充满争议，赛义德仍与其附属人士保持联系。
马库斯·穆罕默德是一名小镇市长，也是伊斯兰民族组织的牧师，他在选举之夜观派对后台发布了一张自己与赛义德挽臂的照片。与此同时，底特律伊斯兰民族组织分会的领导人发布了一张他与赛义德在2025年全国有色人种协进会活动上握手的照片。
赛义德还吹捧了一位底特律地区有影响力的牧师的支持，这位牧师此前曾称赞法拉坎，赛义德发布了宣布该背书的新闻稿，并登上了他的播客。
“我们需要有人为我们指明方向。我相信我们这里有一位能够组织我们的领袖，”这位牧师2013年在谈到法拉坎时说道，“他们想要压制说出真相的人，我们知道这为什么会发生，也知道是谁在这么做，但我们需要一些帮助来克服这一点。”
共和党正将赛义德与极端主义人物的密切联系作为选举日前竞选策略的一部分。这一策略已经取得了一定成效，几名高调的犹太民主党人倒戈，提振了共和党中期选举的希望。
然而，赛义德的阵营坚称罗杰斯也有自己的见不得人的勾当。
“迈克·罗杰斯的竞选团队充斥着‘抱怨政坛女性’的成员，他们为一个充满‘对希特勒的赞美、毒气室笑话、种族 slur 和强奸评论’的群聊辩护，而且在他的一名高级竞选领导人承认无视儿童性虐待受害者的指控后，他并未发声反对，”赛义德的发言人沃兹尼亚克告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“迈克·罗杰斯是一名腐败的政客，只专注于为自己敛财，为特殊利益捐赠者服务，他将在今年11月的投票箱前被否决。”
‘Destroying the American way of life’: El-Sayed’s political orbit complicates effort to moderate his image
The Democrat appeared alongside figures who praised Hamas and Hezbollah while insisting he believes in capitalism
September 6, 2026 9:00am EDT / Fox News
By Robert Schmad
Michigan’s 2026 Senate race heats up as progressive nominee Abdul El-Sayed faces intense criticism over his policy platform. Florida Representative Kat Cammack rails against El-Sayed’s socialist agenda, comparing his campaign tactics to a used car salesman. Cammack warns that these progressive policies will ultimately drain the wallets of working-class families while offering nothing but empty promises in return.
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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is seeking to appear more moderate to voters while, at the same time, maintaining ties to individuals who take positions far to the left of anything he publicly endorses.
Since launching his Senate bid in April 2025, El-Sayed has distanced himself from a number of positions he had previously held and scrubbed much of his left-wing pre-campaign content from the internet. He has also repeatedly insisted that he is “not a socialist.”
While attempting to convince voters that characterizations of him as a left-wing ideologue are inaccurate, El-Sayed has appeared at campaign events with and accepted endorsements from a range of political allies and supporters with controversial records or views.
EL-SAYED’S HASAN PIKER PROBLEM FOLLOWS HIM TO DEM CONVENTION AS JEWISH VOTERS BREAK RANKS
U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party convention, on Aug. 29, 2026, in Lansing.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Beyond campaigning with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who claimed that America “deserved” 9/11, El-Sayed has also linked himself with terror-sympathetic Islamic clerics, individuals accused of antisemitism and several prominent socialists and socialist-aligned activists.
“Abdul has made clear that no one speaks for his campaign besides himself and his campaign spokespeople,” El-Sayed campaign spokesman Cole Wozniak told Fox News Digital.
El-Sayed’s campaign has attempted to flip the narrative on Republicans, pointing out that Mike Rogers, the GOP nominee facing off against him, has his own set of controversial associations.
Some individuals affiliated with the Rogers campaign, which did not respond to a request for comment, have also cast doubt on the outcome of the 2020 election and advocated for banning gay marriage. Nonetheless, Republicans have made El-Sayed’s affiliations with controversial figures a focal point of their campaign in Michigan.
Surrounded by socialists
“I am not somebody who is a socialist,” El-Sayed told CNN in July. “I believe in capitalism, I just believe that capitalism has to be regulated.”
Despite this assertion, and multiple others like it, El-Sayed has surrounded himself with socialists during his tenure as a public figure.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont described by some as the avatar of socialism in America, threw his support behind El-Sayed’s ill-fated 2018 gubernatorial run. The Vermont socialist was also among the first to back El-Sayed’s 2026 Senate bid, endorsing him on the same day he launched his campaign.
Sanders isn’t the only socialist backing El-Sayed’s run for Senate. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are all vocal supporters.
TOP DEM HOPEFUL FLIPS SCRIPT AFTER YEARS IN SOCIALIST ORBIT WITH PUZZLING CLAIM
Abdul El-Sayed holds a news conference after winning the Democratic Senate nomination, on Aug. 5, 2026, in Detroit, Michigan.(Rich Edson/Fox News)
El-Sayed has long aligned himself with the Democratic Socialists of America, only recently distancing himself from the ascendant left-wing organization as he seeks to win a competitive Senate race.
Between 2017 and 2020, the Michigan Democrat spoke at six events held by Democratic Socialists of America chapters, including a 2019 fundraiser where he served as the keynote speaker. Additionally, DSA officials told Politico in July that they were mobilizing resources to help El-Sayed win his Democratic primary election.
“I’m not technically or practically DSA,” El-Sayed told the Wall Street Journal in July.
Socialist organizers, however, have called him “a longtime friend of Detroit DSA.”
Most recently, news broke that William Lawrence, a Democratic Socialists of America member running for Congress in Michigan who has campaigned alongside El-Sayed, called for “destroying the American way of life” on a podcast hosted by Marxist activists.
“I’m wondering how we can inspire a sense of abundance for people in the United States, while frankly, destroying the American way of life and the negative connotations and material realities that has come to mean,” he said on the episode.
‘Martyrs’ and ‘mujahideen’
A strong showing with Michigan’s Arab American community helped carry El-Sayed to victory in August’s Democratic primary. El-Sayed has been deeply involved with the state’s Muslim community, including relationships with figures who have made controversial statements about Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah.
‘MARTYRS’: MICHIGAN DEMS NOMINATE HEZBOLLAH-PRAISING CANDIDATE AFTER OUSTING JEWISH REGENT
Hasan Piker, left, listens as Abdul El-Sayed speaks before a campaign rally, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
In April, Amir Makled, a man running for the University of Michigan’s board of regents who celebrated dead members of Hezbollah — a U.S.-designated terrorist organization — as “martyr[s],” introduced El-Sayed at a campaign rally.
Then, in June, El-Sayed headlined the opening of Imam Hassan Qazwini’s Islamic Institute of America, offering him his “hearty congratulations” and calling his mosque “incredible.”
Qazwini has a history of making controversial comments. Among these have been his claim that Israel was behind ISIS, calling a slain leader of Hezbollah a hero of the “resistance,” and describing Sanders as honorable “even though he is a Jew.”
Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign denounced Qazwini as antisemitic. Qazwini has since compelled his congregation to vote for El-Sayed, arguing that doing so is a “moral responsibility” and “religious duty” in a July sermon.
At the opening of Qazwini’s institute, El-Sayed shared the stage with Sheikh Fadhel al-Sahlani, a cleric who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack and downplayed the number of people killed in the Holocaust.
EL-SAYED BOOKED FOR MAJOR ISLAMIC CONVENTION ALONGSIDE CLERICS WITH RADICAL PASTS
Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, takes questions at a news conference, on Aug. 2, 2026 in Detroit.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
On Sept. 5, El-Sayed is scheduled to share a different stage at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention with Qazwini.
Also slated to be in attendance are Imam Baqir Berry, who prayed that God would grant Islamic holy soldiers in Gaza “a mighty victory;” and Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center terrorism case but was never charged in connection with the attacks.
El-Sayed’s religious views have puzzled some observers. While the Democrat supports easy access to abortion and child sex changes, he has also expressed a desire to live in accordance with Sharia law and describes his faith as important to his outlook on life.
Ties to Nation of Islam figures
A number of people El-Sayed has appeared with or promoted have ties to the Nation of Islam, a religious organization founded by Black nationalists in the 1930s that is not considered an orthodox Muslim sect by most Islamic leaders.
The Nation of Islam teaches that Black people are the original human beings and that White people were created by an evil Black scientist named Yakub. Their doctrine portrays the White race as inherently corrupt and historically responsible for oppressing Black people, though it also asserts Black racial superiority.
Currently, the Nation of Islam is under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan.
Farrakhan has accused Jews of being “wicked deceivers of the American people” who have “sucked their blood,” later suggesting that “people will never be free in this country” until they are liberated from the “tremendous amount of influence” he said Jews exert over the American government. He has also called Jews “termites” and suggested that White people generally are “the skunk of the planet earth” and not fully evolved.
EL-SAYED TOUTS ENDORSEMENT FROM PASTOR WHO PRAISED NOTORIOUS ANTISEMITE INFAMOUS FOR CALLING JEWS ‘TERMITES’
Abdul El-Sayed speaks to members of the media ahead of the Michigan Democratic Party’s 2026 nominating convention in Lansing, Mich., on Aug. 29, 2026.(Sarah Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Despite the Nation of Islam’s controversial positions, El-Sayed has maintained ties to individuals affiliated with it.
Marcus Muhammad, a small-town mayor and minister with the Nation of Islam, posted a photograph of himself arm-in-arm with El-Sayed backstage at his election night watch party. The leader of the Detroit chapter of the Nation of Islam, meanwhile, posted a picture of him and El-Sayed shaking hands at a 2025 NAACP event.
El-Sayed also touted the backing of an influential Detroit-area pastor who had previously praised Farrakhan, issuing a press release announcing the endorsement and appearing on his podcast.
“We need someone to give us direction. I believe we have a leader here that can organize us,” the pastor said of Farrakhan in 2013. “They want to silence people who tell us the truth, and we know why this is happening and who is doing it, but we need some help with how to overcome it.”
Republicans are leaning into El-Sayed’s proximity to extremist figures as part of their strategy in the lead-up to Election Day. The approach has already seen some success, with a few high-profile defections from Jewish Democrats bolstering the party’s midterm hopes.
El-Sayed’s camp, however, maintains that Rogers has some skeletons of his own.
“Mike Rogers has filled his campaign team with members who ‘complained about women in politics’ and defended a group chat ‘filled with praise for Hitler, gas chamber jokes, racial slurs, and rape comments,’ and he refused to speak out after one of his senior campaign leaders admitted to dismissing victims’ allegations of childhood sexual abuse,” Wozniak, the El-Sayed spokesman, told Fox News Digital. “Mike Rogers is a corrupt politician who’s only focused on enriching himself and serving his special interest donors, and he will be rejected at the ballot box this November.”