When Kamala Harris shows up to campaign for you, perhaps it would be wiser to say no.

Abdul El-Sayed, who brought in Hasan Piker to campaign for him in the primary before running as far away as possible during the general election, thought otherwise.

The incredibly touchy and misogynistic Democrat could be the next Senator from Michigan. The polls are in a statistical dead heat, but El-Sayed’s margin of victory in the primary was a lot smaller than the polls had estimated. In other words, this election is a complete toss-up and will come down to turnout. Abdul El-Sayed is trying to get black voters to turn out for him, which has inexplicably meant that Kamala Harris has showed up to campaign in Michigan.

“It’s OK to not be in love with a candidate,” Harris told several hundred attendees at an evening NAACP forum. “It’s OK to vote and ask everybody else to vote because this choice is better than that one. That’s what gets you where you need to go.”

El-Sayed did not attend the NAACP event where Harris vouched for him. But she sat beside the candidate earlier Tuesday during a roundtable on Black maternal mortality. That discussion focused on health care policy, with no direct mentions of Trump or the complexities of El-Sayed’s effort to stitch together Democrats’ disparate coalition in his campaign against Republican Mike Rogers.

“I’m here to support Dr. El-Sayed because on this subject, I know he will be a champion,” Harris said of the medical doctor and former Detroit public health chief.

The broader political significance overshadowed the narrower topic, however, as Harris and El-Sayed grapple with their own policy differences and Democratic Party infighting in a Senate race that will help determine control of the chamber.

El-Sayed needs the first Black vice president’s validation in Wayne County, where she remains popular and he faces pressure to attract Black voters who backed his primary rival last month — in no small part because some progressives and Arab Americans in Michigan withheld their votes from Harris in 2024 out of anger that she and then-President Joe Biden supported U.S. military aid to Israel.

Harris and El-Sayed did not take questions together before or after their afternoon event, so they did not have to discuss their previous differences over U.S. policy in Israel.

Earlier Tuesday, before meeting Harris, El-Sayed framed her visit as a demonstration of unity. “We’re building an electoral coalition here,” El-Sayed said, emphasizing the two Democrats’ shared focus on the economy.

So, how did that roundtable go?

BEYOND PARODY: Abdul El-Sayed and Kamala Harris hold roundtable in Michigan to discuss issues facing "Black Birthing People" pic.twitter.com/q0UKrNrlBm

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 22, 2026

Well, looks like Kamala Harris is in full “woke 1” campaign mode already! And did the El-Sayed campaign forget that she lost Michigan in 2024? How do they figure she is going to help El-Sayed win over black voters?

The reality is that Kamala Harris isn’t there to help Abdul El-Sayed. She’s there to help herself. Kamala is still trying to figure out what to do with the rest of her life. She lost the election. Her book tour didn’t give her enough momentum or interest to propel her into running for governor of California. She is assessing whether she has enough clout to run for president again, and is courting the DSA hard left to see if they will back her. (Spoiler alert: they won’t.) Kamala Harris is a candidate in search of an office.

As she has in recent interviews, Harris gave no indication when she will make an announcement about her 2028 plans. But the NAACP crowd roared when she was asked about her intentions.

Under Democrats’ recently revised nominating calendar, Michigan now will hold the fifth presidential preference primary in 2028.

And while Harris did not recalibrate her Israel stance while in Michigan, campaigning with El-Sayed is notable given her past tensions with Democrats’ left flank.

“She probably figures she won’t lose her establishment folks, so maybe she makes gains to her left,” (DNC member and Michigan fundraiser Barry) Goodman said.

Ahead of Election Day this November, Harris also has campaign stops planned in Nevada and Georgia, two other important states on the political map.

Meanwhile, Abdul El-Sayed looks like he is in political purgatory as Kamala Harris dishes up her usual word salads.

On the trail with Abdul and Kamala 🎶 pic.twitter.com/3Ja3JaLZ6R

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 23, 2026

Anyone who has Kamala campaign with them deserves all of this, and more. The rest of the Democratic party is just waiting for her to figure out that her next presidential run is dead on arrival. They could be waiting a very long time – and she will be utterly bewildered when she becomes their target again in a contested primary.

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