Jordan Domingue spent two years close enough to Abdul El-Sayed to be, by his own account, the first person to see him in the morning and the last at night. He now says he got the wrong measure of the man. Domingue, who worked on both El-Sayed’s gubernatorial run and his current Senate campaign, has quit and taken to X to call his former boss “a manufactured man.”
The Michigan race is no side show. El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination this summer and is fighting to keep retiring Sen. Gary Peters’ seat in Democratic hands against Republican Mike Rogers, with about a month to go.
The accusations
Domingue says he served as El-Sayed’s personal assistant and executive-protection lead. In a post dated September 17, he wrote that “everything I had previously ignored or excused made it obvious to me who he was and that I was on the wrong side.”
The list is long. Domingue wrote that El-Sayed’s “management pushed multiple staff to tears and dangerous breaking points,” and that he told different groups different things, which the candidate himself called “strategic ambiguity.” Domingue also said El-Sayed claims “10 years of public service experience” on the trail. “I knew that was a lie while working for him,” he wrote on September 29. On foreign policy he said the senate-race positions seemed “driven by a desire to invoke what seemed like misplaced revenge.”
Then there is the personal material. “His masculinity is a performance, and he has the maturity to match it,” Domingue wrote, adding that El-Sayed never grew past the high school locker room. As an example he said the candidate would openly pass gas around staff, without warning or embarrassment, as a form of stand-up comedy. The New York Post ran with that detail on October 4. Domingue also separately criticised El-Sayed on antisemitism and Jewish safety.
A partisan frame
Notably, Domingue is no neutral witness. He has founded Democrats for Mike Rogers, which backs El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, and his claims have appeared mainly in conservative outlets such as The Gateway Pundit and Hannity.com. His accounts rest on his own posts, and the specifics have not been independently verified.
The Gateway Pundit’s coverage also drew on a lawsuit involving Mount Sinai, which Domingue called the most accurate window into El-Sayed’s character he had seen in opposition research. The reports published did not carry a response from El-Sayed’s campaign to the allegations.
Sources
- EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed Top Staffer Quits Campaign—Shares Disturbing Truth About “Manufactured Man”–“Pushed multiple staff to tears”–“Immature”–“Cartoonishly fake masculinity” and “Loves to fart in public” * The Gateway Pundit * by Patty McMurray
- Former Abdul El-Sayed Aide Blasts Michigan Senate Nominee as ‘Manufactured Man’
