El-Sayed Decided to Attack Melania Trump — BIG Mistake

Abdul El-Sayed had plenty of ways to respond to Trump. He could have attacked his policies, his record, or the social media post that started the fight. Instead, he chose marital hearsay.

Trump posted side-by-side photos of himself with Melania and El-Sayed with his wife, framing it as “Two VERY DIFFERENT Americas.” El-Sayed accepted the comparison — and then went somewhere Trump hadn’t. He described the Trumps as “two people who don’t like each other” and added, “From what I have heard, it’s a bit of a rocky road.”

“From what I have heard.”

The man who just won a Democratic Senate primary — by one point, in a state Trump carried, backed by a Mao-praising Twitch streamer — decided his opening move in the general election would be to peddle anonymous gossip about the President’s 21-year marriage on national television.

Donald and Melania Trump have been married since 2005 and have one son together. El-Sayed and his wife have been married since 2006 and have two daughters. Neither couple’s marriage belongs in a Senate race.

The political calculation here is baffling even before you get to the substance. El-Sayed is running in Michigan, a state where working-class voters chose Trump in 2024, where traditional family values still carry weight outside Ann Arbor and Detroit’s progressive enclaves, and where the voters he needs — the blue-collar Democrats who defected to Republicans over the past decade — are not going to be fired up by a Senate candidate doing celebrity marriage gossip on CNN.