Former El-Sayed staffer drops ominous warning: ‘Keep digging everyone’

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A former Abdul El-Sayed campaign staffer is publicly telling reporters and political opponents to “keep digging” into the Democratic Senate nominee.
The warning came as new reporting scrutinizes donations connected to an Egyptian-American activist who was sentenced to life in Egypt in a Muslim Brotherhood-related case.
Former staffer Jordan Domingue’s ominous assessment: “He’s good and calculated, but he’s not that good.”

If you were running for the United States Senate, these are probably the last words you’d want coming from somebody who used to work for you:

“Keep digging everyone.”

Jordan Domingue, a former campaign staffer for Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, dropped that little political hand grenade Monday while reacting to new reporting about financial support connected to El-Sayed’s campaign.

But Domingue didn’t stop there. “I feel like I’ve been doing this weekly since I resigned from the Abdul campaign in January,” he wrote. “Keep digging everyone. He’s good and calculated, but he’s not that good.”

Well now.

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a former campaign insider essentially standing alongside the political excavation site pointing at the ground and saying, Dig there.

The immediate trigger was reporting from The Midwesterner about Mohamed Soltan, an Egyptian-American human-rights activist who was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Egyptian court in 2015 in a case involving allegations of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. Soltan has maintained that his prosecution was unjust; after a lengthy hunger strike and intervention by the Obama administration, he was released and returned to the United States.

According to The Midwesterner, Federal Election Commission filings show Soltan made two contributions to El-Sayed’s campaign on April 15, while the American Committee for Middle East Rights — the organization Soltan leads — contributed $25,000 in June to Fighting for Michigan PAC, a super PAC supporting El-Sayed. Other people associated with ACMER have also contributed to El-Sayed’s campaign or the PAC, according to the report.

Those are allegations and associations that deserve careful distinctions. Soltan is now a U.S.-based human-rights activist, and his Egyptian prosecution has long been disputed by supporters who say he was unjustly imprisoned.

But Domingue’s reaction is what turns this from another campaign-finance story into something considerably more interesting. He’s not an opposition researcher. He’s not some anonymous MAGA account rummaging through El-Sayed’s past. He worked for El-Sayed.

El-Sayed is already facing scrutiny over his political associations. Fox News reported last week that he is scheduled to appear at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention alongside several clerics who have made controversial statements involving Iran, Israel and Islamist causes. El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to Fox’s request for comment for that report.

He’s also taken heat for campaigning with far-left streamer Hasan Piker, whose infamous “America deserved 9/11” remark El-Sayed has called “dumb,” while declining to disavow Piker himself.

And just this weekend, El-Sayed managed to ignite another controversy with social-media attacks involving second lady Usha Vance and Trump aide Natalie Harp. The New York Post reported Monday that critics from both sides of the political aisle accused him of racial and sexist attacks.

All of this matters because Michigan isn’t exactly a safe Democratic playground.

El-Sayed narrowly defeated establishment favorite Haley Stevens for the nomination and now faces Republican Mike Rogers in one of the country’s most competitive Senate races. An AARP survey cited by The Forward had El-Sayed at 48% and Rogers at 47% — inside the poll’s margin of error.

Which brings us back to those two words: Keep digging.

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