Abdul El-Sayed
Background
- Director and health officer of Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services when he testified to the Senate health committee in July 2024.
- His campaign says he rebuilt Detroit's Health Department after the city's bankruptcy and then restructured Wayne County's health department.
- His campaign describes him as a physician and epidemiologist, a Rhodes Scholar, and the author of a book on Medicare for All.
What they say they want to do
- Medicare for All: Medicare expanded to cover all necessary care for every American, without premiums, copays or deductibles.
- Corporate and special-interest money out of elections, by overturning Citizens United and banning outside spending through 501(c)(4)s, super PACs and 527 groups.
- Higher taxes on the very wealthy, including a tax on wealth over $1 billion, with a $50,000 cost-of-living exemption from federal tax.
- Line 5 shut down.
- An immediate end to the war in Iran.
What the official record shows
- Testified to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as Wayne County's health director, describing a county program announced in March 2024 to relieve up to $700 million in medical debt.
Campaign money from other committees, by type
| Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 4 committees | $23,325 |
|---|---|
| Leadership PACs 4 committees | $17,000 |
| Labor Organization PACs 4 committees | $15,500 |
| PAC - Nonqualified 1 committee | $5,000 |
| Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 2 committees | $4,500 |
| Membership Organization PACs 2 committees | $2,420 |
| House 1 committee | $2,000 |
| Committees the FEC records no type for 3 committees | $1,100 |
| PAC - Qualified 1 committee | $1,000 |
Source: Federal Election Commission
Contributions from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Only line 11C has entries: 23 contributions totalling $71,845.23, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions. Lines 11B and 12 carry nothing. None of the 23 comes from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. The two hybrid PAC rows are contributions from named PACs such as MoveOn.org Political Action and No Dem Left Behind PAC, not donations routed through ActBlue. The three rows the FEC records no type for are committees named for other candidates, $1,100 in all. Donations individuals made through ActBlue are individual contributions and are not in the table; the committee reports $14,408,058.06 of individual contributions out of $14,514,335.93 in receipts for the same period. The rows sum to 71,845.23 dollars.