Abdul El-Sayed: “We have to send the same message we did after 9/11: If you attack our democracy, we will hold you accountable.”

I will always stand for and with democratic movements always.

I think they've been completely let down by a Trump administration that has capitulated to the very corporations that are on the wrong side of all their issues — whether it's the pharma industry, or it's big ag, or it's the food…

If he wants to do any of those things, let's talk about it. But right now, what he's done is DOGE-ed out the parts of government that protect us, and then bent over to all of the corporations he said he'd never support.

You should not be criminalized for a disease. That is absolutely wrong. It’s hateful. It’s discriminatory, and we can, as a state, do better. You can count on me for that.