What are we actually for? Are we just the permanent opposition party where ‘We’re not them’?
Abdul El-Sayed
The Public Record
For the 2026 election, El-Sayed is the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
You say you want to give people health care but take money from the people who are keeping us from having health care.
Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day.
I have been showing up for Detroit since I first stepped into the city as its health director back in 2015, and I intend to show up for Detroit every single day when I walk into the Capitol as your next U.S. Senator.
Congresswoman, if you enjoy podcasts about public health, I welcome you to take a listen. You seem very concerned about that.
So yeah, I’m going to take the bullhorn and I’m going to say that I think we need to abolish ICE because I am not afraid of what they’re going to say about me.
I go on Fox News, I go on podcasts, I Twitch stream, we have a YouTube channel.
I think in a lot of ways, where traditional media has been gatekeepers, we’re watching that gatekeeping function fall away.
My mother was the first tenured professor of engineering at her university. I was raised by strong women. To say that somehow, because I wrote an op-ed 15 years ago about what first lady Michelle Obama said, or I ran against Governor…
Every single dollar that DTE is spending is a down payment on knowing they can raise your rates.
Here’s the thing about it: None of it actually makes your life better.
Every time you want to put glasses on kids, people ask you: ‘Doctor, how are you going to pay for that?’ Nobody asks the general how he’s going to pay for the next war.
I’m not a socialist. I’m just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works. The biggest threat to capitalism was never the idea of government regulation. It was always monopoly.
Look, I took to Twitter last week and said that the tone in which people talk about my opponent is unkind, and I asked anybody who supported me to not talk about her that way.
Right now, the biggest risks to our democracy are the filibuster — it’s anti-democratic in the Senate — and money in politics.
I oppose the filibuster. I think the filibuster has been anti-democratic for a lot of reasons.
Ideally, you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message.





