Abdul El-Sayed: “I’ll fight to ensure every Michigander can live without discrimination and never have to wonder whether their rights…”

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.

One of the big things that we have to recognize about HIV is that no disease can be illegal. The continuing forward of these laws on the books stigmatize people with the disease.

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…

One can disagree with the governance of a foreign country. One can stand in solidarity with freedom and democracy movements.