{"id":76295,"date":"2026-11-03T03:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/bruce-springsteen-backs-abdul-el-sayed-for-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:09:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:09:38","slug":"bruce-springsteen-backs-abdul-el-sayed-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/bruce-springsteen-backs-abdul-el-sayed-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Backs Abdul El-Sayed for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p> The Democrat is facing off against MAGA Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Boss has thrown his support behind Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the bitter fight for the Michigan Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cDr. El-Sayed is a fighter for our American Constitution, he\u2019s a fighter for our American Democracy, and he\u2019s a fighter against the corrupt, lawless, and anti-American leadership currently in the White House,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> wrote in a social media post on Monday. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m in his corner 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSpringsteen\u2019s post arrives on the eve of the 2026\u00a0midterms \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/senate-races-can-democrats-win-2026-midterms-1235638197\/\">Democrats have a generational opportunity to pick up seats<\/a> as Donald Trump\u2019s war against Iran, which has driven up costs of living and caused his popularity to plummet, hamstrings Republican candidates. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA vocal critic against Trump, longtime Democrat Springsteen released his protest anthem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-minneapolis-killings-protest-song-1235506221\/\">\u201cStreets of Minneapolis\u201d<\/a> earlier this year in response to ICE\u2019s brutal immigration crackdown in the city, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/trump-lies-ice-minnesota-renee-good-alex-pretti-1235504449\/\">killings of Renee Good<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/alex-pretti-veterans-gun-owners-country-music-1235505557\/\">Alex Pretti<\/a>. In March, his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour kicked off in Minneapolis on March 31. \u201cThis was the show I wanted to make, the story I wanted to tell,\u201d he told<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bruce-springsteen-new-concert-film-interview-reclaim-flag-1235623169\/\"> Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> in September. \u201cI went out to find its audience, and I\u2019m sure there were people, and I\u2019ve read things where people were vehement about the content of the show, and that\u2019s just the way the chips fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn Michigan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/abdul-el-sayed\/\">El-Sayed<\/a>, an epidemiologist and local public health official, is facing off against former Republican House Rep. Mike Rodgers. On Sunday, Democratic Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/haley-stevens\/\">Haley Stevens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/michigan-senate-race-chaos-stevens-rogers-1235651288\/\">shocked<\/a> Michigan Democrats and members of her own staff after announcing she is endorsing Rogers, who Stevens previously bashed as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HaleyforMI\/status\/2083541895905530201\">\u201ca rubber stamp\u201d<\/a> for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEl Sayed\u2019s campaign dismissed Stevens\u2019 endorsement of his opponent and seemed unperturbed. \u201cNone of this matters,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cYou know what matters? \u2026 There are families who are preparing to send their kids to schools tomorrow that look like they did 50 years ago. They\u2019re worried about what they\u2019re going to feed their kids for lunch. They\u2019re worried that if one of their kids gets sick, they\u2019re not going to be able to pay the bills. Those are the things that matter.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-backs-abdul-el-sayed-for-senate-1235651655\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat is facing off against MAGA Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan The Boss has thrown his support behind Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}