Turns out politicians are just like you.
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic insurgent vying to become the nation's first Muslim US Senator on Tuesday told the Daily Mail he'd be spending Election Day much like a nervous political nerd.
'I am going to sit very anxiously, probably scroll the internet, but also I'm just gonna go to polling places,' El-Sayed told the Daily Mail on Monday.
The crowd inside an inner ring suburb was buzzing with the unique energy of a final pre-election sprint in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Senator Elizabeth Warren had just finished warming up the room for El Sayed, voicing her support for his campaign against Republican Mike Rogers following the stunning betrayal by former Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
The Daily Mail spoke to El-Sayed before he plunged into the late-night press swarm.
When asked where he would be going on Election Day, El-Sayed noted that he had already voted absentee and his ballot had already been counted.
As for his plans for the day itself, he admitted he would be a ball of nervous energy.
The event was one of two final rallies before Election day Tuesday.
El-Sayed's final event included some star power: rapper and actor Common is slated to finish out El-Sayed's months long sprint to the finish line.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a campaign rally on Saturday
The crowd inside a Royal Oak venue was buzzing with the unique energy of a final pre-election sprint in Michigan. The Daily Mail managed to catch El-Sayed before he plunged into the late-night press swarm
A new MISEN poll shows El¿Sayed leading Rogers by about 6 percentage points. The report details El¿Sayed gaining significant momentum among independent voters and young people as Election Day approaches
Recent New York Times/Siena polling shows Democrats tied or leading in key battleground races, pointing to a difficult midterm outlook for Republicans nationwide.
The poll finds Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Republican Mike Rogers by 11 points in Michigan. Other surveys show the race much closer.
Unknown is how much Stevens' Sunday endorsement of Rogers would move voters.
'My mind is made up, I'm rock solid. I'm an independent woman, I made my decision,' Stevens declared during a tense Sunday night appearance with CNN's Anderson Cooper, who questioned her abrupt flip.
The explosive endorsement triggered an immediate mutiny inside her campaign, with the majority of her Capitol Hill team abruptly resigning after discovering her political betrayal on social media, according to CNN.
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El-Sayed, a vocal critic of Israel, previously campaigned with Hasan Piker who has faced widespread antisemitism accusations, drawing concern from some in Michigan's Jewish community.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who backed Stevens during the primary, blasted the endorsement as 'a despicable betrayal.'
Michigan Democratic Party chairman Curtis Hertel accused Stevens of abandoning everything she claimed to believe in and declared she would no longer have a place in the party.
El-Sayed, meanwhile, brushed aside the controversy while campaigning with fellow Democrats.
'At the end of the day I actually don't think about Haley Stevens,' he told reporters. 'None of this matters.'
Republicans currently hold 53 seats in the Senate, and Democrats need to pick up at least four of them to win control the upper chamber in the next Congress.
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