In Detroit, Kamala Harris stood beside Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a gesture that was less about a single campaign stop and more about whether a fractured political coalition can be made whole again. The 2024 Michigan loss to Donald Trump — driven in part by Arab-American voters who felt abandoned over U.S. policy toward Israel — left a wound that party unity rhetoric alone may not close. El-Sayed's bid against Trump-backed Mike Rogers has become a test of whether Democrats can hold together communities whose grievances run deeper than any one election cycle.