Abdul El-Sayed’s Top Staffer Quits Campaign, Says Management Pushed Staff to Tears

Adriana Stone 0 2 min read

Abdul El-Sayed’s Top Staffer Quits Campaign, Says Management Pushed Staff to Tears

Jordan Domingue, a top staffer who worked on two of Abdul El-Sayed’s campaigns, has left the Democrat’s U.S. Senate race. He is now speaking publicly about why. His account portrays a public persona he believes was manufactured and a management style that, he says, pushed staff to tears.

Domingue says he served as El-Sayed’s personal assistant and executive-protection lead. He says he left two overseas jobs early, moved to Michigan twice, accepted major pay cuts, took El-Sayed’s pregnant wife to the hospital, and developed a close relationship with the family. He says the youngest daughter called him “Mr. Jorjan,” and he painted El-Sayed an original birthday artwork.

According to Domingue, foreign policy was not part of El-Sayed’s gubernatorial campaign. He says the issue took on a different role during the Senate race. “His foreign policy was driven by a desire to invoke what seemed like misplaced revenge.” Domingue later wrote, “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.”

After leaving the campaign, Domingue became the founder of Democrats for Mike Rogers. The group’s X account says it is exposing what it describes as El-Sayed’s support for Hezbollah and Hamas. Domingue’s own profile identifies him as a USMC combat veteran and an international security professional, among other descriptions.

One post from Democrats for Mike Rogers accused El-Sayed of wanting to send American money to UNRWA. The post alleged that employees of the agency participated in the October 7 terrorist attacks, including the rape and murder of Israeli women and children. It also accused El-Sayed of wanting higher taxes on working-class Michiganders and asked, “What happened to America first and money in pockets?”

The Gateway Pundit article also disputes portrayals of El-Sayed as tied for the lead in Michigan. It points to a post from PattyMI, who wrote that she lives in a very liberal southeastern Michigan neighborhood and was surprised by the number of Democrats for Mike Rogers signs appearing in front yards. She said that if her Democratic neighbors were representative, El-Sayed was going to “LOSE BIGLY!” That is an anecdotal neighborhood observation, not polling.

Domingue argues that his close access gave him an unusual view of El-Sayed. He described being the first person to see him in the morning and the last to see him at night, working six or seven days a week, putting in 12- to 14-hour days, and traveling more than 50,000 miles. He also recalled that El-Sayed regularly used the phrase, “Past is prologue.”

One of Domingue’s pointed personnel allegations is that El-Sayed’s management pushed multiple staff members to tears and that he acted like an entitled mobster. Domingue also directs readers to the Mount Sinai lawsuit, which he calls the most accurate opposition research, from his experience, for highlighting El-Sayed’s character.

Domingue’s argument is broader than a policy disagreement. He says he once protected El-Sayed, then came to believe he had been excusing conduct he could no longer overlook. He summed up that personal question by asking, “Who are we when no one is looking?”

These allegations are Domingue’s account, and the supplied material does not include a response from El-Sayed. But the former staffer is no longer working inside the campaign. He is now using his experience and the Democrats for Mike Rogers platform to campaign against the candidate he once served.

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