Abdul El-Sayed

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.

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.

I know you're going to say no because you're a coward. Five debates. All right?

Putting your hand up to participate in democracy is no easy thing. Thank you for running, Congresswoman. Looking forward to uniting this fall to beat Mike Rogers. Because what unites us is so much bigger than what divides us.

The movement to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All is a big movement.

Money out of politics, money in your pocket

I hope that today we can come together.

Whatever we may differ on, it is so much smaller than what we agree on.

Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put more money in politics.

We've got to bring the party together, and I know both she and I are committed to doing that.

There's a lot of healing to do after a hard-fought primary like this

Now, what happens if the alternative to the bought-off establishment happens to be instead of a narcissistic, megalomaniacal billionaire, a doctor who rebuilds health departments to eliminate medical debt and put glasses on kids' faces…

That's the highest commitment I can offer as a father.

We can condemn antisemitism, and at the same time, we can be talking about how we bring people together, and we can be talking about everybody's pain, and I think anybody who does not want to do that is not serious about actually…

What I mean is that hurt people hurt people, that maybe if we're serious about ending the hurt, we should stop hurting people, that's what I mean.

Whatever differences that we might have had in the primary, they pale in comparison to what unifies us: a recognition that so long as we want to keep our democracy, that democracy better be working for people, and that all of us have to…

El-Sayed built a younger coalition campaigning alongside Bernie Sanders and AOC.

If your candidate is so electable, why do you have to spend $60 million to put them in office?

When really, up and down the state, what you hear is, ‘I wonder how I can afford my rent. I wonder how I can afford my groceries. I don’t know what’ll happen if I get sick because I can’t afford my deduction,’

We didn’t know they were going to spend $70 million of their money. We didn’t know that they were going to outspend us $11 to $1. And yet we’re still standing.

Know that the billionaires, corporations, and the special interests-they weren’t going to give up light. We all knew they were going to spend their money.

Most people don’t walk around asking, ‘Where do I sit on the left–right spectrum?’ Most people are walking around asking, ‘What the hell’s going to happen if I get sick? What’s going to happen if I lose my home or I lose my job?’ … I think…

We’re gonna build a movement that reaches out to everybody — I know not everybody’s gonna agree with me on everything, that’s not how this works. But I know they agree with me on the need to beat Mike Rogers and the need to hold Donald…

Michiganders are big-hearted, they’re open-minded… [They’re] sick and tired of BS politics coming in to divide us.

I’ve been an Abdul in Michigan my whole life. This is the best place in the world to be Abdul.