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Fetterman Says El-Sayed Has Put Senate Seat in Play

August 10, 2026 · 9:14 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) warned that Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could cost his party a must-hold Michigan Senate seat,” the New York Post reports.

Said Fetterman: “He has put, you know, that seat in play. And after Bernie Sanders and others created the disaster in Maine, and they pushed garbage person like Platner, and now they’ve pushed an individual like El-Sayed that’s been very proud of his very deeply anti-Israel views and proud to campaign with an avowed communist overall.”

He added: “He just has like this weird little man syndrome energy just going around insulting people. And, you know, that’s the kind of campaign that he’s run.”

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