A group called Democrats for Mike Rogers has landed in the middle of Michigan’s U.S. Senate race. Its leader once spent his workdays beside the Democratic nominee, Abdul El-Sayed.
Jordan Domingue runs the group, Gateway Pundit reported. It supports Republican Mike Rogers, who faces El-Sayed on the November ballot.
Michigan voters decide the contest in the midterm elections next month.
Domingue has told his story on X, where he lists his qualifications in his first post. He called himself “the campaign staff member who has to this day, had the most 1:1 time with him.”
He then put numbers to the claim.
Domingue wrote that he was “the first person to see him in the morning and the last to see him at night. Some average of 6-7 days a week, 12-14 hr days, 50,000+ miles.”
Gateway Pundit identified his former title as “personal assistant/executive protection lead.”
Domingue structured his posts around a line from William Shakespeare. He says El-Sayed loves the quote “Past is prologue.”
Domingue explained what the phrase means to him. “Though he doesn’t adhere to it, I like the question it asks. Who are we when no one is looking?” he wrote.
From there, he turned to a court case. Domingue argued that a lawsuit tied to Mount Sinai reveals more about El-Sayed than any other material circulating about the candidate.
“Of all the opposition research on Abdul, the mount Sinai lawsuit has been the most accurate from my experience at highlighting his character. As a 30 year old leapfrogging into a job he was inexperienced for and only got thru connections, the profile in lawsuit is revealing.”
The case involves El-Sayed’s time as a young doctor at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York City.
Plaintiffs sued the school over allegations that its hiring practices, which placed El-Sayed in a leadership role, discriminated on the basis of age and sex.
Domingue’s own history with El-Sayed reaches back to the 2018 race for Michigan governor, when he worked on the campaign. He wrote about that period in the past tense.
“When he acted liked an entitled mobster to elected officials in 2017-2018, I excused it as justified outsider earning their place.”
He described two more episodes from that time, one about messaging and one about management.
“When he would say one thing to one group and another thing to a different group hours later, I considered it just the norm or ‘strategic ambiguity’ as he calls it. When his management pushed multiple staff to tears and dangerous breaking points, in addition to them I considered his stress.”
Domingue also wrote about behavior he says he saw outside public view.
“His masculinity is a performance, and he has the maturity to match it. One of the most disrespectful and immature forms this was shown throughout my two years with him, was his love of farting. He would openly do so without warning or embarrassment as his form of stand-up comedy,” Domingue added.
He followed with a second comment on the same subject. “To this day for him, the act of farting is easily one of the funniest things a person can do.”
Other posts from Domingue address El-Sayed’s relationship with animals, his work experience and the conditions Jewish staffers faced on the campaign. All of them appear on his X account.
In one post, Domingue described the point at which his view of the candidate shifted.
“When I finally realized he didn’t actually care about civilians and peace, everything I had previously ignored or excused made it obvious to who he was and that I was on the wrong side.”
The account in this story comes from Domingue’s own posts and from Gateway Pundit’s coverage of them. No response from El-Sayed or his campaign was available for this report.
