Abdul El-Sayed Has a Michigan Problem

Abdul El-Sayed would like to be the next senator from Michigan. That means, among other things, asking Michigan voters to believe the man he is today matters more than the things he said a few years ago. That may be a harder sell than he expected. Old videos and podcasts have resurfaced in which El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee, took aim at some fairly familiar pieces of American life: Fourth of July fireworks, the Second Amendment, the southern border and even football. None of these comments, taken alone, is likely to decide a Senate race. Taken together, though, they begin to


