Kamala Swoops in to Help El-Sayed as More Campaign Questions Surface

Despite a rocky Democratic slate (El-Sayed, Talarico, Brown), an 8.5-point generic-ballot deficit still makes several Senate races competitive for Republicans.

• Kamala's Michigan play: Harris campaigned with Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, which hosts frame as her trying to both moderate his image and distance herself from Biden-era Gaza policy ahead of a possible 2028 run.
• El-Sayed's credibility gaps: He was pressed by Mehdi Hasan on lacking a valid medical license to call himself a "physician," and separately called cars "the modern day cigarette," seen as risky in auto-dependent Michigan.

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