In all, UDP and other outside groups have spent $60 million backing Stevens, while El-Sayed has received $4.6 million from outside groups. The post came after two polls came out this week showing that El-Sayed is surging in the polls, just days before the primary election next week. Earlier this week, Stevens backer Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Michigan) did not say whether she would back El-Sayed if he becomes the Democratic nominee. “You have to know how to work the room, don’t just come in here speaking Arabic, don’t come out with your Arabic music on,” she went on. Smith later apologized, and the Stevens campaign distanced itself from her comments.