A televised MSNOW panel of 10 Trump voters favored Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed over Republican Mike Rogers. El-Sayed is running against Rogers in a closely watched midterm race considered a key battleground, as the Democrats bid to take control of the Senate this November. Six participants said they had decided how they would vote in the race.
Five raised their hands for El-Sayed, while one backed Rogers. The remaining four in the small sample were undecided, although one said she leaned “heavily” toward Rogers. If all four undecided voters ultimately supported Rogers, the panel would have been evenly divided, with five voters backing each candidate.
Newsweek reached out to El-Sayed and Rogers’ campaigns for comment, via email and online contact form, respectively, on Wednesday. MSNOW’s Elise Jordan also asked those backing El-Sayed how firmly they had settled on their choice. Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a joint appearance with El-Sayed last month.
Three recent Michigan polls placed El-Sayed just ahead of Rogers in a tight Senate race. A Quantus Insights survey of 762 likely voters published Wednesday placed El-Sayed at 47.6 percent and Rogers at 46.5 percent. The poll had a margin of error of approximately plus or minus 7.8 points.
A YouGov poll conducted between September 22 and October 4 among 3,949 likely voters put El-Sayed at 49 percent and Rogers at 48 percent. This survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. Meanwhile, polling conducted by Mitchell Research and Communications for CBS News Detroit placed El-Sayed at 45.6 percent and Rogers at 41.4 percent.
It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points and was conducted among more than 680 likely voters. As Newsweek reported on Wednesday, recent polling data from research firm Civiqs showed President Donald Trump’s approval stood at -26 points in the key battleground state, which backed Trump by less than 2 points in 2024. The Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday that video from a 2016 medical conference in Detroit showed Abdul El-Sayed saying he carried dual citizenship in the U.S. and Egypt.
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