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Desperate Republicans Have NO IDEA How to Attack Abdul El-Sayed Without Being Racist

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The video transcript presents Abdul El-Sayed as a progressive Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Michigan who faces intense opposition from Republicans accused of resorting to racist and Islamophobic tactics due to an inability to critique his actual policy positions. The speaker argues that Republican attacks labeling El-Sayed an extremist are baseless, noting that his platform includes mainstream proposals like Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, taxing the rich, and supporting affordable housing rather than extreme measures. Instead of engaging with these policies, opponents allegedly attempt to frame them as horrifying or suggest voters should reject essential services like healthcare in exchange for nothing simply to avoid being associated with "extremism." The speaker contends that this strategy is a dishonest pitch designed to scare away working-class families who prioritize safety and economic stability over ideological purity. Beyond policy disagreements, the transcript highlights how Republicans weaponize identity politics by attacking El-Sayed's Muslim faith and conflating his views on Israel-Palestine with anti-Semitism or support for Sharia law. The speaker refutes claims that using phrases like "Inshallah" (God willing) indicates extremism, pointing out that even former President Joe Biden used the term publicly without issue, while noting that Republicans often apply double standards based on race and religion. Additionally, false accusations are made regarding El-Sayed's alleged support for terrorism or a desire for 9/11 to happen, which the speaker dismisses as fabricated quotes invented by opponents like Mike Rogers who have no evidence of such statements from El-Sayed but instead campaign alongside figures with controversial histories themselves. The analysis concludes that despite these aggressive and often dishonest attacks, there is significant concern within parts of the Democratic Party about electing a Muslim candidate, revealing deep-seated Islamophobia even among Democrats. The speaker contrasts this with the record of Mike Rogers, portraying him as an out-of-touch corporate puppet who has supported policies harmful to Michigan residents, including raising opioid flows and prescription drug prices, while seeking Trump's endorsement through sycophantic behavior. Ultimately, the video frames the upcoming election not just as a local contest but as a crucial test for progressive politics in swing states like Michigan, arguing that defeating Rogers would set a vital precedent for future campaigns by proving that voters can choose candidates based on their policies and moral stance against genocide rather than identity-based fears or dark money interference.
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Abdul Rakman Els sayed who wants to take away their gun rights. He wants to he wants to cottify Roie Wade and overturn the DOS decision. He wants to abolish ICE. And a lot of the working-class families in Michigan, just like in Indiana and around the country, these families just want to keep their the these men and women just want to keep their families safe. and Elsed wants to abolish ICE and allow the drug cartel gangs to take over the streets of cities in Michigan. You look at the extreme positions that Elsad has staked out. And if he would happen to win in November, he would be the most extreme Democrat radical United States senator that we've ever had. He would make Bernie Sanders look squishy. You just got a preview of some of the GOP attacks against Abdul Elsa now that he is officially the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Michigan. And it's clear that they very clearly don't know what to say about him or how to attack him. So they're just calling him an extremist when the policies that they're pointing to like bringing back Roie Wade, that's not extreme at all. In fact, that is a majority position in the United States. But if you look at the table that they put up on Fox News comparing his platform to DSAs as if that's proof that he's extremist, it's just laughable because these policies are fairly mainstream. Medicare for all, abolishing ICE, taxing the rich. And just look at the last two columns. Capitalism. He supports it but wants regulation and affordable housing. Oh no, that just sounds utterly horrifying. So, their pitch to Michigan voters is that they should reject health care and affordable housing in exchange for nothing so as to avoid quote unquote extremism. Sounds like a great bargain. Sign me up. I mean, what a wonderful pitch that they're actually trying to offer to voters. But if that's not convincing enough, well, he's also a Muslim. So, there's that. Elsad is also an Islamist, as is Mandami. And and look, you see the green red convergence where the communists and the Islamists, they want Sharia law. They hate Jews. They hate Christians. They hate capitalism. They hate America. All of this is coming together in a way that is really a toxic toxic stew. We actually do want Sharia law. Ted, how did you know? Which one of you told Ted Cruz that we want Sharia law on the left? Because that was supposed to be a secret. Now, he also said that the communist left hates Jews. And Trump echoed that same line of horseshit on Truth Social where he called Elsa a communist loser who hates Jews in Israel. And just to translate that for you, he's calling Elsa anti-semitic because he doesn't think that the terrorist state of Israel should be allowed to blow up children in Palestine. You have to support their genocide, otherwise you're anti-Semitic. Just like how if you don't support Saudi Arabia's 2018 genocide of Yemen or the UAE's complicity with genocide in Sudan, you're Islamophobic. And if you don't support Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you're rousobic, too, because that's the way that it works. Apparently, Republicans are the ones doing identity politics now. As it turns out, but what else are they going to say? Because like, how do you make the case for genocide without coming up with some sort of disingenuous argument? Are they just going to say genocide good? Because they can't really say that. So they're choosing to weaponize identity politics to provide cover for an apartheid ethnostate. But I think that by now most Americans know the game that's being played. So when all else fails, they just can fall back to their go-to strategy, which is classic Islamophobia. Libs of Tik Tok tweeted that Elsa said, "Inshallah," adding, "We are so [ __ ] if this Muslim wins." And if you listen carefully, you can almost hear her clutching her pearls and puckering her [ __ ] from across the country. That's how outraged she is that he dared to say inchah. Now, for those not living in a cave, inchaha is Arabic for godwilling. And it's a popular phrase even among Americans. Joe Biden even said it on a debate stage back in 2020, I believe. But thankfully for him, he had the uh appropriate skin color to say that phrase without warranting suspicion because, you know, to Republicans, just being Arab or Muslim is a scandal in and of itself. But Elsa's opponent isn't stopping there. He's accusing him of being proter terrorist. Writing in a statement, "I spent years hunting terrorists and bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. Never in a million years did I think that I would be running against someone who believes America deserved 9/11." Now, for those who don't know, Elsa had never said that. He did campaign with Hassan [ __ ] who said that before but Mike Rogers campaigned with Donald Trump who's a pedophile. Does that make him pro pedophilia? Like is this what we're doing? So Mike Rogers is literally making up quotes because I mean what else is he going to do? Sure, Elsa wants to give you health care and affordable housing, but do you really want those nice things from a scary Muslim? You may die poor, but at least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that you stopped a Muslim from winning a race in Michigan in 2026. It is just astonishing. And in case you didn't know how racist Republicans really are, last week I posted this video to YouTube where I talked about blowback that Donald Trump received after endorsing a Republican running in Michigan's 8th congressional district. Now, to spoil my video, the reason why Trump's own voters were pissed off that he made this endorsement was because the Republican in question's name is Amir Hassan. In other words, they think that he's Muslim. Now, to be clear, he is not Muslim. He is a Christian who explicitly stated that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior. But it didn't matter because his name was enough to warrant suspicion. And in the end, Trump's endorsement made zero difference because Amir Hassan's Republican opponent who literally suspended his campaign ended up beating him in a [ __ ] landslide. I [ __ ] you not. So, having Trump's endorsement wasn't enough to get a born-again Christian with a Muslim sounding name across the finish line. That is how racist Republican voters are. But I mean, that's not surprising. The real question is, will these lazy, racist, Islamophobic ass attacks be enough to sway non- voters and independents in Michigan? And look, we're not going to know until November. But I will say that Elad, he's going to put up a hell of a fight either way. Mike Rogers is the guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little bit more manly by making an AI video. [laughter] Mike Rogers is a guy who has never shied away from a DTE check so he could turn his face in the direction of Florida. Mike Rogers is a guy who will do anything Blue Cross Blue Shield wants him to do, including raise your rates. Mike Rogers is a guy who introduced legislation to increase the flow of opioids. He did that while I was in high school. Mike Rogers is a guy whose politics and vision and perspective are old. Mike Rogers is a guy who has never shied away from a corporation he could do a favor for. Mike Rogers is a guy who, believe it or not, went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to beg for his endorsement. I'm so sorry. If you want a senator who's going to lick some boots, fine. Go vote for Mike Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Donald Trump, then you've got your option right here. He took I don't know how much money, nearly a million dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, voted to raise prescription drug prices, helped to architect the legislation that kicked off the opioid epidemic. This is a guy who's never seen a corporate dollar he did not want to use to corrupt his office. He made $14 million after leaving Congress and moving to Florida to play golf. If we bring people together around a movement to take our politics back, we really can beat him. And what he's missing is that politics has changed since the year 2000 when he got to office. Now, it's not enough to just get what, $70 million and run 30-cond ads on television. You actually have to stand for something. And this is a guy who doesn't want to actually explain why he's backing Donald Trump on the worst, most ridiculous war that we've seen that they swore up and down that we'd never fight. He doesn't want to explain why he drives an EV, but doesn't want you to. He doesn't want to explain why he's okay with everybody paying $5 gas because of adventurism abroad. So, we're looking forward to forcing him to explain all of those things to the people of the state of Michigan and then sending him back to Florida so he can golf with his buddies. He's so good at this and he's very clearly ready to take on this fascist buffoon. And I think this really is going to be the ultimate test, not just for the electability of the progressive left, but also for the intelligence of the American people. Because when given the choice between a fascist genocide supporting Republican with no policy solutions and a progressive doctor who opposes genocide and wants to give everybody healthcare, I mean, what are voters going to choose? To me, maybe I'm living in a bubble. It feels like this is the easiest decision ever. It's like if I asked you, hey, would you rather I slap you across the face or give you $100? I think most logical people would opt for the $100 as opposed to the slap. But in all fairness, you know, as easy as this decision is on paper, there's going to be a lot of dark money spending to obscure the difference between Elsa and Rogers. And I say that because Alex Solander of Axios reports that Apac is gearing up to spend big against Elsa in support of Mike Rogers. So they lose the primary, then they immediately pivot to supporting the Republican in the general after they didn't get their way because their goal is to support a rogue imperialist terrorist state. And party affiliation makes no difference. still support a progressive or a straightup fascist so long as that individual is going to be a solid vote for Israel reliably. It is truly outrageous. But one thing that I will say is that I am really impressed by Mallalerie McMurro and even Haley Stevens who immediately got behind Abdul Elsed in order to defeat the fascist Republican. And that is important because the Democratic party really does have to be united. And I appreciate his former opponents doing what they expected of us because in the event it were Stevens, we all know they would be saying vote blue no matter who. So I'm glad to see his opponents actually practice what they preach, which isn't always the case because we saw with mom Donnie and we're seeing with Daria Le and other DSA members, you know, some Democrats aren't willing to fall in line as they would expect us to. And listen, I know how hard it is to suck it up and vote for a candidate that you don't really like. That sucks. This is the first time that leftists like myself haven't had to do that. So, I empathize with the liberals who don't want to vote for Elsa. But with that being said, as much as we try to welcome liberals and Stevens voters in particular into the fold, we're going to have to acknowledge that we may have to cut our losses with some Democrats who just aren't getable. And I think that that number thankfully is fairly low. But we have to face the fact that the Democratic Party, like the Republican party, has an Islamophobia problem. Racism is alive and well in the Democratic party. Now, even though you have his opponents getting in line behind him, you have some Democrats who are going to refuse to support him just because of who he is. In fact, some Democrats like Federman, for example, they're just implicitly endorsing his Republican opponent. Are you willing to unify with Abdul El Say for example, who's now the Democratic nominee, the Democratic candidate? >> Oh, yeah. [laughter] Yeah. The tough guy. He he called me ugly and then I should be on a pike. And I'm like, "Chief, I own mirrors. I know I'm an ugly guy. Uh, but if you want to put me on a pike, I mean, he has like a really like a little man syndrome kind of energy." And now he was really arrogant in that race. And now we have just fig found out that you know less than a majority of Democrats want him and he has a serious responsibility between now and November to to hold that seat. >> So you think he could lose to Mike Rogers? >> Oh 100% that's possible with without a doubt. I mean the polling seems to indicate uh that uh that it is in danger. >> So he's not going to unite behind Elsa because why would he? He is basically a Republican for all intents and purposes. And I think there's going to be some voters in the Democratic party who are going to agree with him because quite frankly, they're [ __ ] racist pieces of [ __ ] Now, the only thing surprising to me about that clip is that Federman was at least self-aware enough to know how ugly he is because he is. Objectively speaking, he is as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside. But it's surprising that he's smart enough to realize that because he somehow isn't self-aware enough to know that he would get obliterated in a Democratic primary. Just just watch. >> If a Democratic uh Senate primary were held in Pennsylvania today, the Commonwealth as you like to call it, of Pennsylvania, do you believe you would win >> if there was a primary, a Democratic primary in Pennsylvania >> like today? >> Yeah. Uh yeah, I I mean uh I mean that that's uh we don't we don't know ex exactly, but but but overall uh it's 2026, so it's it's really kind of a theoretic. >> Well, by all means, Fatterman, feel free to run in a Democratic party primary in 2028 then. I'd love nothing more than to see you get your cheeks clapped by Summer Lee. Nothing would make me happier to watch her drag you through the [ __ ] mud during a Democratic primary debate. That would be wonderful to see. But to get back to Elsad, this race is very important obviously because if he's able to actually pull off a victory here, the Democratic establishment, they're not going to be able to come up with some [ __ ] electability argument about AOC in 2028 and whether or not she's viable in swing states in 2028 if she chooses to run for president. So, we need to take that argument away from them and elect somebody who can actually win in one of these battleground states. And it's also important to elect somebody to take Bernie Sanders place in the Senate because let's face it, he's getting up there in age. And even though he did already file the paperwork to run in 2030, believe it or not, I still think it's important that we have somebody there as a backup to carry the torch should he choose to retire or god forbid anything happens to him. But I do believe that Elad can pull it off because as William Lawrence put it, organized people can beat organized money. And he's living proof of that. He was able to harness anger over data centers to propel himself to victory in Michigan's seventh congressional district and I'll say it is already deploying the same strategy which I think is smart because that truly is an issue that unites people across the political spectrum. So we need all hands on deck to pull off this victory. If you live in Michigan, sign up to volunteer if you can and if you don't live in Michigan consider donating or phone banking because this has to happen. We have to make this happen. If he wins, this would be a political earthquake and really set the stage for a strong AOC presidential campaign in 2028. So, we simply cannot afford to lose. We have to get this man across the finish line. And I will use my platform in every way that I can to make sure that that happens because Senator Elsid has a nice ring to it. And the policies that he supports in particular, that sounds even more wonderful. Hey, hey, hey. [music] [music]