Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D-MI) offered a late endorsement of Abdul el Sayed, the Senate nominee whose views on Israel have polarized the Democratic Party and prompted blowback from the Jewish community.

Nessel, the first Jewish person elected to Michigan’s top law enforcement post, has been one of the loudest Democratic skeptics of el Sayed. She previously scrutinized him for campaigning with Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer accused of antisemitism, as well as rhetoric on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying group, that she said needed to be “toned down.”

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