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Abdul El-Sayed says Trump and Vance keep saying his name and attacking him because they think it hurts him, but he says they're actually giving him a bigger platform. He wants them to keep doing it.
He says Michigan's next senator needs to fight for unions and working people, guaranteed healthcare, childcare and senior care, and hold corporations accountable so companies serve people instead of people serving corporations.
"The real choice is between a system where the richest push wars that take more money out of people's pockets and deny them what they need, or working people coming together to build what they need and deserve." — Abdul El-Sayed
He argues the real choice is between a system where the richest push wars that take more money out of people's pockets and deny them what they need, or working people coming together to build what they need and deserve and create more peace in their lives.
The attacks he is talking about have been constant. Before his October 8 debate with Republican Mike Rogers, Trump attacked his name and faith, calling him "Mohammad" and a "RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer." At the debate itself, Rogers suggested El-Sayed's family might be on a terrorism watch list, and El-Sayed dared him to finish the thought: "Are you going to go ahead and say that I'm a — go ahead and say it. You've been tiptoeing about it the whole time. Just say it." JD Vance has told Tucker Carlson that El-Sayed is no America First candidate, and Sen. John Kennedy has said he "worships at the altar of AOC and Mamdani."
El-Sayed, a physician and former Wayne County health official, is the Democratic nominee for the open Michigan seat that Sen. Gary Peters is leaving behind. He beat Rep. Haley Stevens in the August primary by less than one percentage point while being massively outspent, with Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez behind him. Barack Obama will rally with him in Detroit on October 24, the first day of early in-person voting in Michigan.
After the debate, asked about Trump's attacks on his name, El-Sayed answered: "He says it every day. He's not just attacking me. He's attacking all of us."
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