Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed says he would pursue war powers resolution to end U.S. Iran war

EASTORA REPORT | Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Sunday that, if elected, he would pursue a war powers resolution to end the U.S. war with Iran and push Washington back toward diplomacy.

Speaking to CNN’s Laura Coates, El-Sayed rejected Vice President JD Vance’s challenge to explain what he would do about the conflict. “The thing we should not have done is started the war in the first place,” he said, arguing that the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement had provided a diplomatic framework for limiting nuclear proliferation.

El-Sayed said Congress should use a war powers resolution to end the administration’s ability to continue the war and then return the issue to U.S. diplomats. “More war is not solving anything,” he said. “It’s getting us deeper into this quagmire.”

His comments came after Vance, during a CBS News town hall with Michigan voters, criticized El-Sayed’s opposition to the war and asked what his solution was “for the problem that we have right now.”

El-Sayed also mocked Vance’s education at Ohio State University, saying the school “owes that boy a refund.” El-Sayed attended the University of Michigan, whose rivalry with Ohio State is one of the most prominent in U.S. college sports.

El-Sayed is running against Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat in the November 3 midterm election.