Given his double-digit lead over Stevens in the polls, El-Sayed was widely expected to win. Even the folks at Slate Magazine had to acknowledge that El-Sayed’s victory was more of a “whimper” than a resounding defeat. Hasan Piker calls the 700,000+ Haley Stevens voters and the 51% of Michigan Democrats that did not vote for Abdul El-Sayed "Islamaphobic pieces of shit." Seeking to mitigate the accusations of antisemitism that have dogged his campaign, he said, “To my Jewish American sisters and brothers … My commitment to your safety, to Jewish safety, is the same commitment that I have to my own daughters.” Abdul El-Sayed: “To my Jewish American sisters and brothers…My commitment to your safety, to Jewish safety, is the same commitment that I have to my own daughters.”