More than a dozen donors to Dan Bilzerian's congressional campaign — a candidate who ran on openly pro-Hitler, antisemitic messaging — also wrote checks to Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, in many cases spreading thousands of dollars between the two candidates.
Tell me again which party has the Nazi problem.
Bilzerian, the podcaster and social media personality, ran for Congress in Florida's 6th District against Republican Congressman Randy Fine in the August 18th primary. His campaign wasn't dog-whistle antisemitism. It was bullhorn antisemitism. He openly challenged Fine because Fine is Jewish, pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories, and produced campaign material that Jewish Insider described as "blatantly antisemitic and pro-Adolf Hitler messaging." A Combat Antisemitism Movement analysis found that 33% of Bilzerian's congressional campaign posts on X were antisemitic.
Here's one example of Bilzeran's campaign speak against Fine
Florida voters weren't buying it. Fine crushed him in the primary, winning 57% of the vote to Bilzerian's roughly 18%. House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries both condemned the campaign. The Republican Party didn't equivocate or look the other way — it rejected him decisively at the ballot box and from the leadership podium.
So why were El-Sayed's donors also funding this guy?
The Free Beacon's FEC filing analysis shows the donor overlap isn't a one-off coincidence. More than a dozen individual contributors gave to both Bilzerian's pro-Hitler congressional run and El-Sayed's Michigan Senate campaign, with thousands of dollars flowing between the two. These aren't anonymous small-dollar contributions getting lost in the noise. These are donors who made a conscious decision to fund both campaigns.
El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee from Michigan, has spent the past week making the media rounds attacking Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance. He's positioning himself as the face of progressive tolerance. Meanwhile, his donor base overlaps with a candidate whose campaign posts were one-third antisemitic content and who ran explicitly as, in Jewish Insider's words, "an explicit Jew hater."
Here's what El-Sayed said about the sexual preferences of Second Lady Usha Vance
This isn't the first time El-Sayed's financial backers have raised eyebrows. His campaign received over $115,000 from donors affiliated with CAIR, whose leader publicly expressed being "happy" about the largest attack on Jews outside of the Holocaust on October 7th. It's also been reported that El-Sayed's father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, donated $200,000 to the Fighting for Michigan PAC — nearly half of the $478,125.68 the PAC raised as of March 31st — and holds a leadership position in an organization linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
None of this means El-Sayed personally endorses Hitler or antisemitism. But we all remember the rules. When a handful of people with Confederate flags showed up at a Republican event three years ago, every conservative in America was required to personally denounce them or be branded a sympathizer. The entire GOP was defined by its worst attendees.
El-Sayed's donors didn't just show up at a rally with bad flags. They wrote checks to a man who posted pro-Hitler content a third of the time and ran against a Jewish congressman specifically because he was Jewish. And then they wrote checks to El-Sayed too.
The standard was set. We're just asking if it applies both ways.