Former “Superman” star Dean Cain tried to raise doubts about a rising Democratic Senate candidate’s past — only to watch his attack unravel almost immediately.
Cain, 60, took aim Sunday at Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, questioning whether the progressive politician had really been a high school football captain.
“Has anyone ever seen a photo of Michigan Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El Sayed (D) playing High School football?” Cain wrote on X.
“He says he was captain of the team, but I can’t find a single photo. Internet, please do your thing.”
The internet did exactly that.
And it didn’t take long.
One social media user quickly uncovered a photo El-Sayed had posted himself on Instagram in March showing his football days.
The user mocked Cain’s search efforts, saying the discovery “literally took 2 seconds.”
Another person dug up an old newspaper clipping from 2002 describing El-Sayed as playing both center and noseguard for Bloomfield Hills Andover High School in suburban Detroit.
That wasn’t the only evidence.
El-Sayed’s athletic background has been publicly discussed for years.
In a 2018 interview with USA Lacrosse, El-Sayed talked about playing lacrosse with the University of Michigan’s club program and said he had grown up playing hockey and football.
A 2017 profile in The Globe and Mail also described him as having served as a captain of his high school football, lacrosse and wrestling teams.
The embarrassing online exchange comes as El-Sayed suddenly finds himself under a much brighter national spotlight.
The Egyptian-American progressive won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary last week, defeating moderate Democrat Haley Stevens and setting up what is expected to become a closely watched general-election battle.
President Donald Trump has already begun targeting El-Sayed publicly.
Trump, 80, has repeatedly referred to the Democrat by his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, while attacking him online.
The feud heated up even further Saturday night when Trump posted a picture of himself with First Lady Melania Trump alongside a photograph of El-Sayed and his wife, Dr. Sarah Jukaku.
“Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s,” Trump wrote.
The post was part of a rapid-fire social media spree in which the president reportedly published 17 posts in less than two hours.
El-Sayed responded Sunday during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” — and quickly made the fight personal.
“Actually, Sarah and I like each other,” El-Sayed said of his wife.
“I don’t know about the First Lady and the president, but from what I’ve heard, it’s a bit of a rocky road.”
He then shifted the argument toward the economy and the broader direction of the country.
“You’ve got two different visions of America,” El-Sayed said.
“Donald Trump’s vision is the one you’re living in right now. Can you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries? Do you believe when you look your kids in the eye, that they’re going to have a better future than you did?”
El-Sayed, who has been married to Jukaku for roughly two decades, also invoked the couple’s daughters, Emmalee and Serene.
“When we look our daughters in the eye, Emmalee and Serene, we want them to believe that they are every bit as able to have a better future than the one that they could have had under the Trump Administration,” he said.
Cain’s football jab may have been intended to put El-Sayed on the defensive.
Instead, social media users quickly produced the very evidence Cain claimed he couldn’t find — turning what was supposed to be an attack into another viral moment in an increasingly heated Michigan Senate race.
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