El-Sayed Digs That Hole Deeper With His Own 'Natalie' Comment That Backfires on Him

Someone needs to tell the Democrat nominee for the Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, to give social media a rest.

Well, that is if they wanted to help him. Because he or his team seems to keep digging that hole deeper with the stuff they are posting on X.

As we have previously reported, El-Sayed posted a tweet that assumed Vice-President JD Vance's white grandfather would be racist against Vance's wife, Usha, the Second Lady. People slammed El-Sayed for that view of Midwestern people, which probably would not go over well in Michigan.

Then El-Sayed doubled down on bad social media. Sen. Jon Ossoff embarrassed himself by taking a hit at Natalie Harp, one of President Donald Trump's aides. He got a lot of backlash for being misogynistic and ended up backpedaling.

Ossoff Tries Some Desperate Clean-Up After 'Natalie' Comment - It Doesn't Go Well

El-Sayed should have learned a lesson from that. Instead, he appeared to want to lean into that approach.

Natalie, I think he’s had a little too much iPad for the week. He needs his rest. https://t.co/QwgGEtQY2p
— Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) August 22, 2026

"Natalie, I think he's had a little too much iPad for the week," El-Sayed posted, referring to President Donald Trump. "He needs his rest."

He meant to take a dig at Trump, using the aide, as Ossoff did, to look tough to the leftist base.

First, that doesn't go over with the votes he needs now in the general election: the sane people in the middle who look at this and think it's misogynistic. It's starting to look pretty creepy that he keeps dragging women into his attacks.

Then second, what he did, and doesn't seem to understand, is that he just amplified an attack from Trump on him that would be very effective with those same people in the middle that people might not have seen otherwise. Yes, he did campaign with Hasan Piker, who did say that America deserved 9/11. Of course, that's just one of the many problematic things Piker has said/done. Notice El-Sayed just made the juvenile Natalie shot; he didn't dispute any of the comments that Trump made in that clip.

Great Streisand Effect there.

People ripped into El-Sayed's post.

"This is what I’m talking about," said GOP strategist Matt Whitlock, posting screenshots of the posts directed at Harp and Usha Vance. "Just a bad campaign, bad candidate, bad instincts. Sitting at home on a Saturday morning tweeting bad takes that any normal campaign would shut down."
"He goes after Usha. He goes after Natalie [Harp]. This coward picks on women who are not in his fight. Imagine how he would treat female staffers in the halls of Congress," said Tudor Dixon, a Republican former gubernatorial candidate in Michigan.

Taking this tack isn't going to help him get elected; it's just making him look worse. While he's engaged in bad social media posts to appeal to the far-left base, Republican Mike Rogers is reaching out to all the voters, including the Democrats, who want people focused on the issues.

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