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He pointed to restaurant owner Ali Abbas, who hosted Trump and later sold his business after threats, as a measure of how polarizing that moment was.
“They watched the genocide in Gaza, and they saw Biden do absolutely nothing,” Fawaz said. “Out of desperation, they looked for other options.”
Fawaz believes Dearborn's community is disproportionately attuned to geopolitics, with little attention to Congress's domestic business. A single senator's vote on Middle East policy would register directly.
“Every single person has family in Lebanon, or Palestinians here who have family back there, wondering on the daily what’s going to happen to them.”
El-Sayed has engaged this community. In June, he delivered the keynote at the inauguration of a $16 million mosque in Dearborn Heights.
Fawaz said El-Sayed has “changed his tone” since his 2018 gubernatorial run.
“His talking points to the Arabs was a lot different than what it was a few years ago.”
El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, has not taken corporate PAC money.
He campaigns for universal healthcare, an end to military aid for Israel, abolition of ICE, and aggressive AI regulation.
He calls himself a capitalist in an oligarchic society and has endorsements from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Jewish Voice for Peace Action—its first Senate endorsement.
Stevens, who flipped a Republican House seat, is backed by much of the party's Washington wing, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Detroit News.
