Gary Bauer is the chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, who served on the board of Christians United for Israel. He says the U.S. is now reaping the whirlwind of mass migration into the country.
"Often we've seen in places like Michigan and Minnesota that Somalians that were brought in all concentrated in the same communities. Now they are the majority in some of these communities, or they're getting to be numerous enough that they can even impact statewide races," Bauer says.
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a senatorial candidate, is a prime example. The New York Times is tracking Democratic primary polls, showing that El-Sayed is currently up by three percentage points at 34%, ahead of Rep. Haley Stevens at 31% and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow at 19%.
"So, in Michigan, the guy that's leading in the Democrat Party's primary for United States Senate is pro-Islam. He seems to be a socialist on economic issues. He is more concerned about protecting the people of Gaza than he is protecting the people of the United States," says Bauer.
El-Sayed was a candidate for Michigan governor in 2018, but lost in the Democrat primary election. Recently, he served from 2023 to 2025 as Waynes County’s director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services.
The Michigan primary is August 4.
Meanwhile, sections of Michigan are already dominated by Muslims. According to the “End of the Day Report” from CWF, Hamtramck has an all Muslim city council, and Dearborn, Michigan, has one of the highest concentrations of Muslim residents in the U.S.
A new poll finds that only 19% of Michigan residents believe mass immigration from poor countries has helped the state, while 35% say it's been bad for the state. The rest thought it made no difference or didn't know. The poll asked an interesting follow-up question: Has Michigan accepted too many or too few Muslim immigrants? Only 6% of Michigan residents said "too few," while 37% said "too many."
