Harris hits campaign trail with El-Sayed as some other Democrats keep their distance

Kamala Harris is back on the campaign trail and she started in Michigan

The former vice president made her first major campaign stop of the midterms Tuesday

appearing with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit. The two sat down for a roundtable on black maternal health and Harris made a direct pitch for El-Sayed

His will be a voice, Abdul's, that is a voice representing the people of this state, and it will be a national voice

Harris has more midterm stops planned, including Nevada, California, and Georgia. But not every Democrat has wanted her on the trail

The New York Times reports Senate candidates in Alaska, Iowa, and Kansas have publicly said they don't want her campaigning with them

El-Sayed does, and the two have had some real differences, especially over Gaza

El has been a vocal critic of U military support for Israel Harris was part of the Biden administration that faced intense pushback over its Gaza policy particularly in Michigan which is home to a large Arab American community

My disagreements with the then vice president's positions on Gaza are clear

and I still disagree with the position on which she ran in 2024. So the reality of it is that we

have a big party. There are going to be issues on which there are disagreements in the party

and there's a lot of issues on which there are agreements. So what does it look like to bring people together around the issues on which we agree

That's what a mature politics looks like. And we can have our positions, our differences

I endorsed Vice President Harris for president. And I endorsed her because I understood that Donald Trump would be worse

El-Sayed is now trying to bring Democrats together after a divisive primary

He faces Republican Mike Rogers in November for the open seat being vacated by Democratic Senator Gary Peters

Democrats need to hold Michigan and pick up at least four Republican-held seats to take control of the Senate