President Donald Trump heralded the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party’s electoral success in regional elections on Sunday in a Tuesday night post on Truth Social.

«Wow! The Populist Party in Germany just had a really big night,» Trump wrote in the post.

«They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible Immigration rules and regulations which have hurt Germany so badly. THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore! MGGA!!! President DJT,» his post concluded.

The German state of Saxony-Anhalt held elections Sunday, and AfD outperformed expectations that predicted the party would secure 40-41% of the vote, according to The Guardian.

AfD surpassed that, garnering 43.8% of the vote while securing 39 seats in the state’s 83-member parliament, according to results from the state’s election authority.

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It’s a marked improvement from the young party’s last result in the state, as AfD secured only 20% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt’s 2021 elections.

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The anti-immigration party benefited in particular from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany’s (CDU) losses, as Saxony-Anhalt’s previous governing party dropped 25 seats, ending the election with only 15 seats in the state’s parliament, per the results from the election authority.

AfD’s parliamentary co-chair in Saxony-Anhalt, Ulrich Siegmund, credited his party’s victory to Germany’s unpopular Chancellor Friedrich Merz, a member of the CDU party.

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«Things cannot carry on like this,» Siegmund told state broadcaster ARD, adding that «a very good campaigner for us in this election campaign was Friedrich Merz.»

German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Saxony-Anhalt State Governor and top candidate Sven Schulze give a press statement after visiting UPM Biochemicals in Leuna, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Merz’s CDU, like other parties in Germany, refuses to work with AfD, whose Saxony-Anhalt branch has been classified as an «extremist group» by Germany’s internal intelligence service.

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AfD has been met with complete opposition in Germany, with most parties putting up what leaders and German media have come to categorize as a «firewall» against working with them. The CDU and three other parties that won seats in Saxony-Anhalt’s Sunday elections – the Left Party, the Social Democrats, and the Greens – have already publicly stated they will not form a coalition with AfD in the state.

Without an absolute majority, it’s unclear how AfD would be able to rule without the cooperation of another party. The party’s best hope of forming a ruling coalition would be with the only other party that won seats in Sunday’s election, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which took five parliamentary seats.

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Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party gather at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of tomorrow’s Thuringia state elections on Aug. 31, 2024, in Erfurt, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The state’s incumbent governor, Sven Schulze, a member of the CDU, congratulated AfD for its victory, and said, «We as the CDU will also have to deal with this result.» But his party’s national general secretary, Franziska Hoppermann, remained defiant.

«AfD is a right-wing extremist party. It wants to leave the euro; that would be economic downfall… it works closely together with Russia, it wants a completely different social model,» she said, according to The Associated Press. «We will not work with them.»

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AfD’s defacto leader, Alice Weidel, meanwhile, celebrated the result as «sensational,» adding that the party’s «hand is outstretched to all who want to make Saxony-Anhalt better and move Germany forward.»

Fox News Digital contacted the AfD and the CDU for further comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

An elected Democratic official in Michigan is rallying her community against U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and claims those within the socialist rise of her party take Black voters for granted.

«It doesn’t change, it’s just different slave owners,» Democratic Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett told Fox News Digital in reference to Democratic Party leaders who believe Black voters are a monolith who should only support left-wing candidates.

She claimed that El-Sayed is not working in the best interest of Black Michiganders and that the far-left wing of her party is «more racist than the KKK.»

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Whitsett called out prominent Black voices known for rallying the community’s vote for Democrats — specifically naming Al Sharpton and controversial Detroit pastor Horace Sheffield III, an El-Sayed campaign surrogate. She accused the pair of working to «keep the knee on [Black voters’] neck.»

Whitsett said Black voters are «waking up» and are «realizing the power of our vote.»

«You can see the serious divide of the crazy socialist far-left and especially the White women,» Whitsett said. «They are the worst and the most racist that there possibly ever could be. They’re, I think, they’re more racist than the KKK.»

«Are you trying to help the Black community or are you trying to kill it?» she rhetorically asked. «Are you trying to keep people stupid and ill-informed or what? Because right now I can’t tell, right? Is this voter education or are you just trying to make sure you count your slaves on the plantation.»

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El-Sayed’s values aren’t aligned with hers, Whitsett said, adding that she doesn’t think he has the best interest of Black voters at heart, either.

«I’m going to stand on Bible first, and I’m going to stand on community first,» she said. I don’t care about moving up within the Democratic Party. I don’t care about making sure my pockets are better.»

El-Sayed’s campaign did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment on Whitsett’s criticism of the candidate and the Democratic Party’s leftward shift.

Whitsett is not running for re-election and will retire when her term expires at the end of the year.

Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan on August 2, 2026. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

«I always try to be a voice of reason, and I’m not a go along, get along. So, my whole thing is it has to make sense, and I am definitely family over party. God over party is of the utmost importance,» she said.

«So for me, when you point that out to people, it’s just common sense that to people, that’s just common sense that El-Sayed is not the candidate,» she continued. «There’s just no way. It doesn’t line up. It doesn’t line up Biblically, and it doesn’t line up with common sense.»

Noting that she does believe everyone should have medical insurance, Whitsett harped on El-Sayed’s campaign promise of Medicare for All. She said the progressive candidate hasn’t adequately explained how that system will be implemented, and what it means for Americans when they visit the doctor.

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«This Medicare for All, it’s not for all. It’s not going to change the dynamics of how many doctors there are, or nurses or blood draws or anything else. You’re now going to put the government in your health system, and they’re going to decide for you.»

Hasan Piker, left, listens as Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks in a green room before a campaign rally, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

El-Sayed already finds himself in hot water for palling around on the campaign trail with socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who said in 2019 that «America deserved 9/11.» He has also praised Mao Zedong and Communist China, said capitalists should be murdered in the streets and is known for making antisemitic comments.

El-Sayed has refused to condemn Piker, instead painting him as a «streamer from California» who has no bearing on the race in Michigan, despite inviting Piker to Michigan to campaign for him.

Many Jewish Democrats in Michigan have vowed not to support the far-left candidate, saying in an open letter they feel «threatened and alienated by the politics and allies embraced by Abdul El-Sayed, which has included demonization of Jews, equivocation on terrorism, exclusion of Jewish Americans from public life, and expression of implacable hatred of the world’s only Jewish nation.»