A left progressive in the vein of AOC and Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed not just a brilliant, well-educated doctor but obviously has a gift for communicating with plain, Average-Joe language.
Wiki excerpt: “Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is an American politician and epidemiologist (i.e., a public health scientist who investigates the patterns, causes, and spread of diseases and injuries) is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.
“A graduate of the University of Michigan, Oxford’s Oriel College and Columbia University’s med school, El-Sayed was the director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services of Wayne County from ’23 to ’25. He was an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University from 2014 to 2015. He was the executive director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer for the City of Detroit from 2015 to 2017. His publications in public health include three books and several academic journal articles.”