Bruce Springsteen Endorses Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed: “I’m In His Corner 100%”

On the eve of the bitterly fought 2026 midterms, Bruce Springsteen today came out strong for Michigan Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

“Dr. El-Sayed is a fighter for our American Constitution, he’s a fighter for our American Democracy, and he’s a fighter against the corrupt, lawless, and anti-American leadership currently in the White House,” the Born In the USA singer said on social media. “That’s why I’m in his corner 100%.”

A very vocal critic of Trump and his authoritarian policies on stage, in song and with his high profile, Springsteen rarely gets this direct for an office seeker if they aren’t running for President. Still, with all the drama surrounding the potentially crucial and tightening Great Lakes State race between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, the whole throated endorsement Monday has the potential to turn up the volume in an already deafening election cycle.

Having stumped for Obama, Clinton, Biden and Harris in previous general elections with his greatest hits, Jersey boy Springsteen this year put his politics in to new and tragic song. In January, he released his poignant ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ song over the killing of two Americans in Minnesota by ICE agents. Out on tour with the E Street Band this spring, Springsteen railed against Trump night after night. Sprtingsteen took Streets of Minneapolis to the city itself as Trump attacked the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Famer online and on-stage as very boring singer” who “looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from the work of a really bad plastic surgeon.”

Last month, after calling Trump and his crew a “reckless and treasonous administration” over the spring and summer on tour, the 77-year old Boss appeared with sometimes bandmate Tom Morello at the protest packed the Power to the People festival in Columbia, Maryland on October 3. The daylong show was broadcast on MS Now and streamed online.

Springsteen’s support for Dr. El-Sayed comes with just hours to go before voters in Michigan and elsewhere have one last day to vote. Estimates are the Democrats will take the House of Representatives and could, if El-Sayed and a few other critical races go blue, gain previously unimagined control of the Senate — effectively kneecapping Trump’s second term if the results hold.

A bombshell of sorts hit Michigan on November 1 with El-Sayed primary opponent Haley Stevens coming out for MAGA main Rogers for Senate. The bombshell ended up blowing up in the Rogers, the GOP and Stevens’ own face after a car crash of a CNN primetime live interview with Anderson Cooper went way off the rails. Now tossed out of the Democratic Party in her home state, Stevens on Sunday night abandoned any critique of El-Sayed’s views on Israel or anything else to rant on and on about “why the anger? Why the frustration?”

Haley Stevens now no longer has a political career in either Blue or Red circles. On the other hand, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has Bruce Springsteen in his corner.