THAT’S RICH: Top 1% Earner Jihadi Abdul El-Sayed Wears Luxury Watches Worth Thousands While Campaigning Against the Wealthy

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Abdul El-Sayed in Top 1% of Michigan Earners

WFB: Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who is running a class warfare campaign demonizing “oligarchs,” is among the top 1 percent of Michigan earners, according to the two pages of his 2025 tax return he released on Wednesday, which show $686,000 in total income, including $292,000 in “additional income” and $262,000 in capital gains.

Abdul El-Sayed Wears Luxury Watches Worth Thousands While Campaigning Against the Wealthy

By: Alana Goodman, Washington Free Beacon, July 15, 2026:

Left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is running as a populist who rails against the wealthy. At the same time, he’s been photographed on the campaign trail wearing an array of luxury watches worth thousands of dollars, a Washington Free Beacon review found. El-Sayed has even bemoaned the “perverse psychological consequences” of Rolex advertisements along the Michigan freeway. “How many people who drive this road can actually afford one of those?” he asked in his 2020 book.

As it turns out, El-Sayed, who described himself in an interview with LGBTDetroit in May as a “sucker for automatic watches” and “classic watches,” can afford some pricey wristwear. He even earned a shout-out from a watch podcast the same month for “rocking what looks like the Sinn U-1 SE,” a German diver’s watch that costs roughly $4,000.

“Badass stealthy pick, well done Doc!,” an Instagram post from the Lan Jam podcast declared. The podcast bills itself as “a friendly discussion between two blokes on watches, cars, aviation, movies, and everything in between.”

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El-Sayed even earned a shout-out from a watch podcast for “rocking what looks like the Sinn U-1 SE,” a German diver’s watch that costs roughly $4,000. “Badass stealthy pick, well done Doc!” an Instagram post from the Lan Jam podcast, “a friendly discussion between two blokes on watches, cars, aviation, movies, and everything in between,” declared. El-Sayed has also posted videos in which he appears to be wearing at least two Omega watches, a German nautical watch known as the S.A.R. Rescue-Timer, and a vintage 1950s Elgin “Doctors Watch.” The pieces are worth a total of roughly $20,000.

El-Sayed has “said he has maximalist political views but a minimalist style and has lacerated American ‘oligarchs,’ saying, ‘We finally need to start taxing billionaire wealth,’” Goodman writes. “El-Sayed participated in an Instagram video with a self-described ‘stylist for regular people,’ Sophie Strauss, in which she attempted to dress him in a manner that matches his radical politics. When Strauss suggested he wear ‘something green since you support climate justice,’ El-Sayed responded, ‘Of course, but this feels like money green, and I’m trying to get that out of politics.’”

A campaign spokeswoman, Roxie Richner, confirmed that El-Sayed “regularly wears a SAR Rescue Timer on the campaign trail because he is trying to rescue our politics from corporate corruption” and sometimes “wears a vintage doctor’s watch because he is a doctor,” Richner said. El-Sayed attended medical school at Columbia University but has never been licensed to practice medicine, though he has referred to himself as a “physician” on the campaign trail.

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