Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Senate race, defeating Republican Mike Rogers, according to a column by Judith Levine in The Guardian. Levine wrote that El-Sayed declared victory before a crowd in Detroit on Wednesday, in what the column described as a hard-fought Senate race.
El-Sayed told the Detroit crowd, according to the column, "You took a chance on the unlikeliest of candidates."
The column said the race had been predicted to be a squeaker. It said El-Sayed beat Rogers by a margin, but the excerpt cuts off before giving that figure, so the size of the victory is not stated in the material reviewed.
Levine argues that strong criticism of Israel's actions may have helped put candidates over the top. She frames this as a reversal of longstanding assumptions about the issue in American politics. The excerpt does not say which candidates besides El-Sayed the argument covers, or how much criticism of Israel contributed to any result. The summary alone does not establish those points.
The column's headline refers to the US midterms, and its argument concerns how criticism of Israel figured in those contests. The Guardian published the column on November 7, 2026.
The item is commentary rather than reporting, and this account draws only on its title and summary. The summary does not report a response from Rogers or his campaign. No other outlet's coverage of the race was reviewed for this story.
Sources: The Guardian: Israel took a beating in the US midterms | Judith Levine.