Michigan Democratic Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed seems to me most notably a member of what Louisiana Senator John Kennedy has denominated “the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, which is in control.” He also mirrors fake working class Dems like Maine’s “ill-starred oysterman” and former Senate candidate Graham Platner as well as the extremely wealthy Rep. Ro Khanna.
Running in a competitive primary for the Democrat nomination, El-Sayed has withheld public disclosure of his most recent tax return. Primary opponent Haley Stevens has hammered him for it. Stevens herself is a lightweight who appears to have pulled ahead of El-Sayed.
The Washington Free Beacon has exposed El-Sayed’s mulitifarious fakery in a series of stories by its dogged reporters. Yesterday, for example, Alana Goodman detailed the luxury watches El-Sayed sports while campaigning agaist the wealthy. It’s a hilarious story. File it under Laughter Is the Best Medicine.
Now El-Sayed has released two pages of his 2025 tax return. Goodman writes:
Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed released two pages of his 2025 tax return showing $686,069 in total income, including $292,000 in “additional income” and $262,000 in capital gains, placing him in the top 1 percent of Michigan earners.
But the return does not reveal the sources of that income because El-Sayed released only the first two pages, omitting the remainder that would provide further detail.
Further into the story Goodman adds:
“I’m a public servant, my wife is a clinician, at the end of the day we have a pretty standard tax return,” El-Sayed said. “You’re gonna be like, ‘Wow, this is pretty mundane, I don’t know what they were talking about.'”
But the candidate, who has billed himself as a crusader for the working class against the wealthy, does not have a “standard” return when compared with the average Michigander or American. His total income places him in the top 1 percent of earners in Michigan, where the median household income is $68,500, according to IRS data reported by Axios. In Detroit, it’s just $38,000. El-Sayed makes roughly 18 times as much.
El-Sayed’s fakery is not his worst feature, but it should make it easier for some to see through him.
