Jumpin' for Jihad: Chris Murphy Is 'All In' for Fake Doctor and Terrorist Sympathizer Abdul El-Sayed

Chris Murphy didn't just quietly nod along to Abdul El-Sayed's Senate bid in Michigan. He went out and campaigned for the guy, called him the future of the party, the whole show. That's worth sitting with for a second, because El-Sayed isn't some blank-slate state legislator nobody's heard of. He's a guy with a well-documented record of cozying up to anti-Israel rhetoric that plenty of his own Democratic colleagues have had to distance themselves from, and a public health résumé that got a lot shakier under scrutiny than his campaign literature suggests. This isn't an oversight. Murphy knew exactly who he was standing next to.

And that's the pattern now, isn't it. Look at what just happened with Graham Platner in Maine, where the party spent weeks pretending a candidate's actual public record was some kind of smear job before reality caught up with them. Same movie, different theater. The national Democratic apparatus keeps getting caught flat-footed defending people they should have vetted six months earlier, and instead of correcting course they just... don't. They double down and call it courage.

What's telling is the confidence behind it. Nobody in Murphy's office is worried about losing swing voters over this, because increasingly there aren't consequences for it inside the party. The base has shifted far enough left that a candidate with a shaky record on antisemitism and a résumé padded with credentials that don't hold up isn't a liability anymore. He's the headliner.

Michigan voters deserve better than a senator whose biggest booster in Washington is more interested in ideological signaling than basic candidate vetting. If this is who the party's rising stars are willing to go all in for, that tells you plenty about where the party thinks its energy actually lives.