ElSayed Campaign Asks Stevens to Avoid Remaining Events

Abdul ElSayed’s campaign asked Rep. Haley Stevens to stay away from its remaining events, escalating a dispute between the Michigan Democrats days before the Senate election. The request was reported by multiple outlets citing people familiar with the decision, though those accounts largely trace to the same report and anonymous sources. The dispute followed Stevens’s Friday demand that ElSayed condemn a Rebellion PAC advertisement and apologize for his own comments linking Israel to Michigan’s affordability challenges. She also asked him to remove a campaign clip featuring Tucker Carlson. Stevens, who lost the Democratic Senate primary to ElSayed in August and later endorsed him, said the advertisement connected U.S. aid to Israel with grocery costs and portrayed that message as antisemitic. The Rebellion PAC video shows a couple shopping for groceries and suggests U.S. military aid to Israel contributes to high food prices. ElSayed’s campaign has said it was not affiliated with the advertisement. Stevens argued that ElSayed should reject the ad and apologize for earlier remarks about Israel and the cost of schools, health care and child care. ElSayed did not agree to those...