By: Mark Glennon*
Abdul El-Sayed is unquestionably the most controversial and radical major party candidate in memory to run for the United States Senate, which he is doing in Michigan as a Democrat. He is disavowed even by some fellow Democrats, and his critics on the right routinely call him a jihadist, terrorist, radical Islamist or the like.
Juliana Stratton is now using her campaign fund to help El-Sayad win. She is llinois’s Democratic candidate for the Senate facing Republican Don Tracy.
Linked here and here are recent campaign blast emails signed by El-Sayed but sent by Stratton’s organization and marked, “Paid for by Juliana Stratton for Illinois.” Unknown at this point is how much further financial support she is providing, but Stratton is clearly helping El-Sayed, financially and otherwise, to some degree.
In the case of El-Sayed, any amount of support would have been unthinkable for Democrats and Republicans alike until the left became the nightmare it is today.
To top it off, Stratton is funded mostly by Gov. JB Pritzker, who has long purported to be a rock solid supporter of Israel’s right to exist. El-Sayed is anything but.
Some background on El-Sayed
For starters, El-Sayed has likened Oklahoma’s Sharia law ban to the Trail of Tears and said that ban and the Oklahoma City bombing are products of “white supremacy.” He is repeatedly criticized for dismissing the importance of the 9/11 attacks on America, saying the war on terror that ensued should have been directed to domestic programs.
He opposes Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and consistently refuses to say it has a right to exist at all. He would end all military aid not just for Israel but Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He often condemns terrorism but proceeds to explain it away. After a Muslim terrorist drove a truck full of explosives into a Jewish temple in Michigan this year, for example, he condemned it but said “hurt people hurt people.” He is not a member of the Democratic Socialist party, but supports much of its most controversial agenda, including abolishing ICE (which he says “cannot be reformed”), Medicare for all, ending all military aid for Israel, and housing as a right. “When they go low, we don’t go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out,” El-Sayed has said.
It gets worse: El-Sayed and Hasan Piker
El-Sayed has regularly platformed and campaigned with Hasan Piker, a prominent and open America-hater, radical Islamist and fan of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong “I say I hate America all the time,” Piker has said. “A lot of motherfuckers want to kill me over that take, but at least I say it with my fucking chest.”
El-Sayed has never denounced Piker, who he has gleefully fist-pumped at rallies. El-Sayed and Piker have walked back some of the their most outrageous comments. You decide whether that’s just proof of their duplicity to hide what their real intentions are for America.
The ultimate irony: Pritzker’s role
Juliana Stratton, as lieutenant governor, owes her political existence and her Senate candidacy to Pritzker, who is bankrolling most of her campaign. Pritzker, however, has long been as firm a supporter of Israel’s right to exist as you can find. His candidate, Stratton, and his money are now on the other side.
Stratton, meanwhile, is dancing her way to the Senate — quite literally, as described here.
*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.
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Abdul El-Sayed will lose Michigan. Abdul El-Sayed could easily win in a one party state like Cali or Ill. where the democrats can nominate any loser, like Juliana Stratton, and the voters show up no matter what to always vote blue, no matter who. But Michigan is NOT a one-party state and nominating compete nutjobs works against them in competitive states. The Democrat Party knows this very well which is why they are doing everything possible in Michigan to try and pull Abdul El-Sayed past the finish line but they will not be successful. There’s a lot of doomer naysayers… Read more »
A blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while, and the polling, for the first time in over 10 years, were correct. What the polls missed was that Democrat were going to buck the EV trend and showed up in person in record numbers instead of early voting, just to give Trump a lesson. Turnout for Republicans was mostly good for a midterms, but Democrat and Independent turnout was much, much better. Republicans, especially in blue states, may as well pack up their bags and start an entirely new party, much as Abraham Lincoln did when he lead… Read more »
You didn’t really acknowledge that your original post couldn’t have been further from the truth. You were wrong about El-Sayed, although he did win with a smaller margin than many had predicted. Your take on early voting was nowhere near correct (early voting data is looking good for republicans). And your take on redistricting was totally incorrect as well. I’ll give ya props for commenting on your original post, but you needed to be harder on yourself rather than use the lame squirrel analogy.
The EV data this year provided an incomplete picture while in past years it was more accurate. And the polling proved to be correct. There’s also some pretty crazy stuff out there that no one, literally no one, predicted either. For example, Texas’s senator Talarico received 5,445,185 votes. Compared to previous Democratic presidential candidates, he got 40.4% more votes than Hillary in 2016, 12.6% more than Kamala in 2024, and 3.5% more than Biden did in 2020, a year of record turnout. Republicans are grasping for explanations everywhere because the data doesn’t make sense in any electoral sense. Texas has… Read more »
You’re 100% correct about Texas. The republicans have to figure out what the hell happened because they cannot afford to have Texas in play for the 2028 presidential election.
The simplest explanation is that democrats hate America and swallowed the line from their Kenyan leader, Barry Soetoro, who boldly stated that he wanted to “fundamentally change America” . By that he meant turning the USofA into a socialist utopia with the entitled lording over the commoners. Startton is an adoring democrat follower who will do as she is ordered in following the dictates of Barry.
I wonder if Mamdani is somehow involved in this.
The March of the Featherheads.
That indeed should be the headline, on this and so many other stories about the left.
I saw on Laura Ingraham’s show that Mr. El-Sayed is very in favor of trans people’s rights. My friend’s daughter is a trans woman. She has never wronged me, so I don’t know what the big deal is. Let her vote just like anyone else.
Nobody wants to deprive trans adults of the right to vote or other civil rights. They just don’t want the few actual trans people to force all of society to rebuild (do we have 4 types of bathroom, not two?) to accommodate their rare situation. The thing virtually all people agree on, and on which many feel very strongly, is that it should be illegal to take permanent, life-altering medical steps for minors. Surgery and even drugs should be left to adults. If a kid really wants to “cross-dress” as a teen, so be it; but preserve his or her… Read more »
Speak for yourself, pal. I for one don’t want any trans person to have the right to vote. They want out so bad? They can have it.
Did you even read the comment?
Absolute disaster on the horizon here. But, Illinois is famous for sending clowns to DC.
Juliloo must be ready to don a burqa.
Illinois elects its dumbest.
This is Pritzker pretending he’s a good Jewish citizen by not giving the money personally, BUT instead funneling his money through his puppet Stratton so he can tell Dem progressive functionaries that he’s all on board with the El-Sayed generation of young Dems.
He wants to set up his 2028 Presidential run, while also facially pretending to remain true to his Jewish past.
A good reason for Jewish Illinois Democrats to not vote for her!
A good reason for the Jewish to vote for Stratton is there Democrats first.
Proud members of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces party.
She better not be using any of our monies! I don’t trust her.
Stratton is a scumbag and a Pritzker puppet. She is a true Democrat- anti Semitic, anti US citizen , pro Muslim, pro criminals and ,pro illegals. IL Us citizens need representation in DC. We will not get that with her. The report that says she is funneling campaign funds to Al-Seyed says it all, is deceptive to donors, and should be illegal. She should be concerned about IL, not Michigan.
We don’t as Americans need another “ Some people did something “ Democrat. We have enough of them already.
Disgusting candidate who supports the hate America crowd funded by Pritzger. Wake up !!! these people hate America and our values, it’s not a secret anymore they come right out and say it
Prikzker is not Jewish, he is a democrat. Same as Emmanuel, Shapiro etc. That is their religion.
Government is their true religion.
Abortion is their sacrament.
The word sacrament should never be used in vain. I and other WP readers would appreciate you refraining from this anti-Catholic slander in the future.
THANK YOU! I don’t post here, and you can thank the rampant anti-Catholic prejudice of some of these commenters. I can only guess how much lovely discussion is being suppressed or turned off entirely by this permitted discrimination.