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{"id":26754,"date":"2026-08-05T14:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-targets-el-sayed-suggests-voter-irregularities-after-michigan-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:48:02","slug":"trump-targets-el-sayed-suggests-voter-irregularities-after-michigan-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-targets-el-sayed-suggests-voter-irregularities-after-michigan-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump targets El-Sayed, suggests voter irregularities after Michigan primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump panned Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a social media post, calling the progressive Democrat a \u201cCommunist, who is not liked in Detroit,\u201d while alleging without evidence rampant voter fraud in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWayne County (Detroit) in Michigan is one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States, if not the World,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117043133534824966\" target=\"_blank\">Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cIt is strictly Third World! Miracles happen in Wayne County, including more votes being cast than there are voters, by a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed advanced to become the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee to face Republican Mike Rogers in the November election on Wednesday, after a weaker-than-expected showing against Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/05\/el-sayed-wins-michigan-senate-primary-stevens-01025170\" target=\"_blank\">Stevens conceded to El-Sayed<\/a> on Wednesday morning. But far from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/05\/michigan-senate-primary-progressives-unclear-01025096\" target=\"_blank\">romp progressives were expecting<\/a> \u2014 polls showed El-Sayed leading by double digits in the weeks before election day \u2014 he squeaked past the four-term House lawmaker by just thousands of votes.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed\u2019s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-announces-monitoring-polling-sites-four-michigan-cities#:~:text=The%20Department%20is%20currently%20monitoring,the%20Western%20and%20Eastern%20districts\" target=\"_blank\">announced that it was sending poll watchers<\/a> to monitor voting sites in Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing, and East Lansing \u2014 four heavily Democratic areas \u2014 \u201cto ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Justice is devoting extensive resources to ensure uniform and nondiscriminatory monitoring,\u201d Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cWe appreciate the cooperation of these jurisdictions in promoting trust and transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Trump still said Republicans would have to overcome fraud to get Rogers over the line in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Radical Left Socialist has a real shot, and don\u2019t discount all of those fake mail-in ballots that will &#8216;surprisingly&#8217; show up at the last moment,\u201d he said. \u201cGet ready for another Rigged Election.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump panned Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a social media post, calling the progressive Democrat a \u201cCommunist, who is not liked in Detroit,\u201d while alleging without evidence rampant voter fraud in the state. \u201cWayne County (Detroit) in Michigan is one of the most corrupt voting areas in the United States, if not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}