In Michigan, El-Sayed Faces Heat From Former Primary Rival as Election Nears
Topics: Michigan Politics
3 outlets (NYT, The Hill and CBS News) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 3 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “El-Sayed”. Distinct wording: NYT uses “Election” and “Michigan”; The Hill uses “endorsing” and “responds”; CBS News uses “leprechaun” and “campaign”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- NYT reports: “Representative Haley Stevens has been less than enthusiastic about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, injecting late intraparty tensions into a race that could decide Senate control.”
- The Hill reports: “Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed responded to his former primary opponent Rep. Haley Stevens’s (D-Mich.) fiancée endorsing his GOP opponent former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). “Well, I'm bui…”
- CBS News reports: “At a campaign event outside of Detroit, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas attempted to tie Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Read the full coverage
- NYT: In Michigan, El-Sayed Faces Heat From Former Primary Rival as Election Nears
- The Hill: El-Sayed responds to Stevens's fiancée endorsing Rogers
- CBS News: Ted Cruz calls El-Sayed a "jihadist leprechaun" at campaign stop
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