Abdul El-Sayed

Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else, just like I hope nobody is trying to push canon law on anybody else, because we live in an America where you should have the freedom of your religion.

My hope is that folks understand where those disagreements align, and also understand that that does not come at the cost of Jewish safety.

Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms.

This is also the place where the assembly line was built. Where people came together despite differences, building a thing together. That is the best metaphor for America. People coming together to build a thing together.

Jesse, you have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan.

While politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare.

My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters.

I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence.

I want to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.

Even before this new round, Canadian tariffs were costing Michigan families an additional $3,200 a year. It’s going to get much worse.

So if you don’t want to talk about what you’re doing, that’s fine, but I encourage you to leave my name and my background out of it.

This is about trying to change the channel.

We can put money back in pockets and finally guarantee the promise of health care through Medicare for all.

He’s going to hide behind this simulacrum of faith, which clearly, you know, if you followed the teachings of Jesus Christ, it was about upending the system against the richest and most powerful in the ways that they used their power and…

Democracy is supposed to fix these problems, and, right now, they’re trying to slip democracy, and we cannot allow that.

I want to actually take it a step further. I agree that we need public ownership, but I also agree that we need some system of public control. What is the point of democracy if it's not to protect us from existential risk? And, right now…

People really effing hate data centers.

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

This is just a different time, and this time calls for different kinds of candidates,” El-Sayed told me. “I hope that coming out of this election, the question of electability is no longer asked and interpreted in the same way.

You know what people hate more than Trump? Politics as usual. They hate politics as usual so much that they were willing to take Trump, warts and all,” El-Sayed told me. “So what happens if you offer them something that’s not politics as…

“If you can’t get elected without $60 million being spent for you, you can’t get elected. I’m so sorry,” El-Sayed said.

What are we actually for?” El-Sayed continued. “Are we just the permanent opposition party where ‘We’re not them’?

You say you’re for human rights and can’t name a genocide a genocide,” El-Sayed said. “You say you want to give people health care but take money from the people who are keeping us from having health care. You say you want to stand up to…

Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day,” El-Sayed told the group. “And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.

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