Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed tells rival Haley Stevens to stay away from Detroit unity event days before the midterms

Abdul El-Sayed's campaign has asked Representative Haley Stevens to stay away from all his events until after Tuesday's vote, with the feud over a Cenk Uygur-produced ad blaming US support for Israel for high grocery prices now threatening to split Michigan Democrats at the worst possible moment. Stevens' fiancé Jason Turkish — who is voting for Trump-backed Republican Mike Rogers — escalated the row on Fox News, saying El-Sayed's messaging "puts Jews at risk."

El-Sayed, whose narrow primary win over Stevens by less than one percentage point left deep wounds, said he refused to "distract from the key issues" and threatened to walk out of his own press conference if more questions came about Stevens.

Jim Clyburn's adviser Antjuan Seawright insisted the Sunday church unity event is "not Abdul's event" and that Stevens' invitation "still stands," leaving the party scrambling in public.

Michigan black community leader Charles E. Williams II, secretly filmed outside his Detroit church, called El-Sayed an untrustworthy "snake oil" salesman — a blow to his closing push for Black voter turnout.