AIPAC Spends Record $50 Million to Defeat Gaza Genocide Critic in Michigan Senate Primary

Pro-Israel groups including AIPAC have backed Congresswoman Haley Stevens with more than $50 million in Michigan's August 2026 Democratic Senate primary against Abdul El-Sayed, a doctor of Egyptian descent who calls Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. El-Sayed's own ad spending reached roughly $3.2 million. The primary tests whether saturation outside spending can overpower a grassroots coalition mobilized around Arab American voters in Dearborn.