ICYMI: “Abdul El-Sayed Courts MAHA Voters” With Policy Agenda To Build A Healthier America

MICHIGAN –  Today, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed announced a new policy agenda to take on corporate polluters and champion food and water safety. As MAHA voters sour on the Trump administration for failing to address their key priorities, as a public health expert, Abdul has the record to deliver real results. 

See below for some of the coverage:

CBS News: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed courts RFK Jr.’s MAHA voters with new health policy platform

  • Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is making a play for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” supporters with the release Tuesday of a new health policy platform.
  • “I think we have an opportunity to remind folks that we’ve always been the people who want people to be healthier, rather than the folks who capitulate to the food, ag, and pharmaceutical corporations that are too often on the wrong side of things,” El-Sayed told CBS News. 
  • El-Sayed, a former Michigan health official, has been vocal about healthcare issues along the campaign trail, speaking frequently about Medicare For All alongside a push to get money out of politics and a focus on affordability issues more broadly. Now, he’s zeroing in on issues that helped build President Trump’s coalition in the 2024 election… [as] voters have been “completely let down and lied to” on the issues at the root of the agenda.

Washington Post: This Senate Democratic candidate is making a play for RFK Jr.’s MAHA supporters

  • Recently, some influential MAHA leaders, particularly those focused on pesticides, have become disillusioned with the White House, warning the administration risks losing voters in the midterms if they don’t reduce the use of pesticides… some Democrats, like El-Sayed, are seeking to capitalize on the split
  • “When it comes to the broader goal of keeping kids safe, when it comes to the slop that they’re being fed by big food corporations and the pesticides that are being forced into our food environment by big ag, when it comes to addressing corporate consolidation, when it comes to standing up to pharma, I think there’s a lot that we agree on there,” El-Sayed said.

Washington Examiner: El Sayed speaks MAHA’s language in campaign pitch targeting chemicals in food

  • Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed sought to peel away a coalition of health-conscious voters from his Republican rival on Tuesday, as the candidate’s campaign seeks to make gains in the final weeks of one of the country’s closest races.
  • His pitch to MAHA voters comes as cracks have emerged in the health movement, with some in the coalition angry at Kennedy for not doing more on issues he advocated before coming to Washington.

MSNOW: Democrats make a play for farmers squeezed by Trump’s economy

  • Abdul El-Sayed on Tuesday unveiled a plan to help Michigan’s struggling small farms, making him the latest Democratic Senate hopeful to court farmers as rising costs weaken Republicans’ grip on rural America.
  • El-Sayed, who faces Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers, rolled out the plan as part of a broader platform that also covers food and water safety. The campaign pieced it together with input from family farmers and members of the Michigan Farmers Union.

POLITICO: Playbook

  • In Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is making his own outreach to the MAHA coalition, announcing an agenda that addresses hazardous pesticides, drinking water standards and access to healthy food from local farmers.

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