Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel told a gathering of Jewish Democrats that they have a “moral imperative” to place the world&#8217;s needs above &#8220;our own survival&#8221; when voting in November. 
Nessel, a Jewish Democrat who has emerged as one of the party’s most prominent critics of its handling of antisemitism and Israel, made the remarks Sunday at the Michigan Democratic Party’s Jewish Caucus&#8217; annual &#8220;Summer Simcha&#8221; in Birmingham, where she was honored.
 Members of the media were barred from the gathering, but the <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/31/dana-nessel-jewish-democrats-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-israel/91541945007/">Detroit News</a> obtained a recording of her remarks.
“Come November, what do your Jewish values tell you to do?” Nessel asked the audience. “It’s so easy to hate people right now, especially other Democrats who seem to have thrown us under the bus, despite our lifelong contributions to our party.” 
&#8220;We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival,&#8221; she continued.
Nessel then invoked the biblical story of Queen Esther, who she said was willing to sacrifice her own life to save the Jewish people. 
“It is perhaps up to us now to follow in her path and sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people in exchange for the opportunity to save the rest of humanity,” Nessel said.
Her remarks came amid a bitter divide among Michigan Democrats over Israel and the Democratic Party’s relationship with Jewish voters.
Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, a vocal critic of Israel and U.S. military aid to the country, attended the gathering. Nessel has previously criticized El-Sayed over comments he made following a March attempted attack on Temple Israel, a synagogue in West Bloomfield. El-Sayed apologized to Jewish Democrats at Sunday’s event for his earlier remarks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-rogers-slams-abdul-el-sayeds-apology-to-jews-as-political-theater">though not all were impressed.</a> 
Nessel framed the decision facing Jewish Democrats as a choice between their concerns about Israel and Jewish security and what she portrayed as broader threats to humanity, including climate change, nuclear war, artificial intelligence, and economic inequality.
“What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist if the planet upon which it rests is no longer inhabitable?” she asked.
Nessel also criticized what she described as the Democratic Party’s treatment of Jewish Americans, saying many Jewish Democrats feel they “must choose between our faith and our party.”  
She acknowledged the frustration over anti-Israel rhetoric within Democratic circles, including arguments that Zionism is equivalent to racism or fascism. 
“People whose entire understanding of Jewish-Israeli history fits neatly into a 47-second TikTok produced by Qatar or Iran,” she said.
But Nessel also argued that supporting President Donald Trump and the Republican Party amounted to an abandonment of Jewish responsibilities. 
“I would argue that their support of selfishness and blind obedience to the world’s biggest and most dangerous fool is a direct abdication of our responsibilities as Jews whose traditions demand a profound obligation to the world and compassionate action toward others,” she said.
Nessel’s remarks came one day after she skipped the Michigan Democratic Party’s state convention because she feared she would be harassed or booed by fellow Democrats. 
“I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome,” Nessel said at the time. “I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage.”
Nessel later told The Atlantic’s David Frum that she had witnessed an “enormous amount of antisemitism within the Democratic Party” since the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel. 
She <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-ag-warns-el-sayed-is-making-excuses-for-domestic-terrorism">specifically criticized</a> El-Sayed for his response to the attempted attack on Temple Israel, saying she believed his effort to connect the attack to Israeli military action risked providing an excuse for antisemitic violence.
Nessel has not publicly endorsed El-Sayed despite being a Democrat and saying she will not support his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers. At Sunday’s event, however, she urged Jewish Democrats to consider what she called their broader obligations when deciding how to vote.
The Michigan Senate race is expected to be closely watched as Democrats attempt to defend the open seat and Republicans seek to flip it.

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With less than two weeks to go before the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is raising eyebrows with deleted social media posts that reference 9/11.
El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign told Politico earlier in the campaign that he&#8217;d deleted all tweets posted prior to July 2023 in an effort &#8220;to prevent any old posts from being taken out of context&#8221; — but the posts that have resurfaced in the time since then have only sparked more questions.
Two of the deleted posts — originally shared in 2020 — were evaluated in a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-deleted-social-media-sept-11-attacks-michigan/">report</a> published Monday by CBS News and showed El-Sayed comparing the American lives lost in the terrorist attacks to those lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In one 2020 post, CBS reported that El-Sayed argued for a national mobilization to combat COVID that mirrored the response to the 9/11 attacks — while in another from that same timeframe he argued as the COVID death toll eclipsed the number killed on 9/11, he hoped &#8220;that means we&#8217;ll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health &amp; against poverty &#8230; like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them.&#8221;
A third post from 2021 — shared on the 20th anniversary of the attacks — was first reported by The Washington Free Beacon, and appeared to suggest that America&#8217;s actions against terrorist organizations were just as bad as the terrorist attacks that had prompted them.
&#8220;Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, &amp; infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, &amp; infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country,&#8221; he said.
Matt Grossmann, a political scientist at Michigan State University, told CBS News that he didn&#8217;t believe a deleted tweet or two would necessarily herald the end of El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign — but the threat they posed was in the likelihood that they&#8217;d bolster the overall perception that the candidate&#8217;s views were too extreme.
&#8220;Is any specific tweet going to matter for the general election? It seems unlikely,&#8221; Grossmann explained. &#8220;But does the general impression that he might be too extreme [&#8230;] will that make a difference? That has a bigger chance of doing so.&#8221;
Toward that end, El-Sayed&#8217;s continued association with socialist Twitch streamer and Mao Zedong superfan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-gives-el-sayed-a-chance-to-renounce-hasan-piker-he-does-the-opposite">Hasan Piker</a> — who cheerleads for terror groups like Hezbollah and claimed that &#8220;America deserved 911&#8221; — might ultimately prove to be the political baggage he&#8217;s unable to shed.

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Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed is ramping up efforts to repair his relationship with Jewish voters, with his campaign now <a href="https://www.jta.org/2026/08/31/politics/all-of-us-have-to-bring-down-violence-wherever-we-see-it-el-sayed-says-following-address-to-jewish-democrats">planning</a> to hire a &#8220;Jewish liaison&#8221; following months of controversy over his anti-Israel views.
The far-Left candidate’s sudden pivot comes on the heels of two back-to-back apologies from El-Sayed over comments he made following an attempted terrorist attack on a West Bloomfield Township synagogue preschool in March.
Speaking at the Michigan Democratic Party Jewish Caucus’s “Summer Simcha” fundraiser on Sunday, El-Sayed apologized for offering &#8220;context&#8221; for the attack by pointing to the assailant&#8217;s family being affected by fighting in the Middle East and saying that &#8220;hurt people hurt people.&#8221;
He claimed he would &#8220;take it all the way back&#8221; if he could and insisted he never meant to defend terrorism.
El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign reportedly said it intends to hire a Jewish liaison and is interviewing candidates for the position while consulting with Jewish community leaders, a person familiar with the campaign told JTA.
Yet, for many voters, the PR tour is nothing more than cheap political theater. The outreach comes as El-Sayed faces resistance from Michigan&#8217;s Jewish voters, a historically Democratic constituency that could prove consequential in his general election fight against Republican Mike Rogers.
While El-Sayed drops buzzwords like &#8220;tikkun olam&#8220; to charm the crowd, attendees weren’t buying the sudden change of heart.
When one mother asked if he would support funding Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system to protect innocent children, as her own were soon flying to Israel, he wouldn’t, a position he has <a href="https://forward.com/news/844100/el-sayed-israel-aid-jewish-voters/">taken before</a>.
“He doesn’t care about the safety of my children,” the mother commented.
On national television, El-Sayed has slammed the Jewish state as an &#8220;illegal apartheid regime&#8221; and <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/el-sayed-calls-israel-bloodthirsty-ahead-of-senate-primary-win/">branded</a> its government &#8220;bloodthirsty,&#8221; while openly demanding a complete freeze on all U.S. aid to Israel.
El-Sayed&#8217;s buddy, Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, pulled back the curtain on the entire charade. Piker exposed El-Sayed’s damage control as a complete deception, telling his followers, “There are going to be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdul El-Sayed’s sincerity on these issues that will then turn around and say, ‘Oh, he’s, you know, he’s moderating his position on Israel,’ all this stuff. I don’t think he is. Okay, I will say this. I am literally the person that is being dangled. And I’m going to tell you once again, he’s not moderating on his perspective on Israel or anything like that.”
Republican opponent Mike Rogers torched the candidate&#8217;s sudden pivot, calling El-Sayed&#8217;s apology campaign the &#8220;epitome of what a conman does.&#8221;
With a track record of cozying up to extremists and demonizing Israel, El-Sayed’s token hiring of a campaign liaison should be seen for what it is: a ruse.

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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed attempted to explain comments he made after a March terrorist attack on a Detroit-area synagogue, but Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers quickly dismissed the Democrat&#8217;s remarks as an insincere political maneuver.
El-Sayed <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/us/politics/el-sayed-apology-jewish-democrats.html">addressed</a> the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus at the state Democratic Party’s convention in Lansing on Saturday, telling reporters after the convention that his response to the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township had been inappropriate. 
“My comments might have been misconstrued to be justifying something I did not intend to justify,” El-Sayed said. “To anybody who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry. That was not my intention.”
El-Sayed also said that he had tried to provide “context” for the attack when he should have simply condemned it. 
“What I was trying to do was offer context for why it happened, but it wasn’t the time for context, and you don’t ever want to trample somebody’s pain,” he said.
The comments came months after a Muslim man intentionally drove a truck into Temple Israel and opened fire on a security guard in what federal authorities described as Hezbollah-inspired terrorism against Jews. In his initial response, El-Sayed condemned the attack but also attempted to explain it, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-senate-candidate-admits-he-struggles-to-say-israel-has-a-right-to-exist">saying</a> that “violence is a cycle” and &#8220;hurt people hurt people.&#8221;
El-Sayed continued his efforts to mend relations with Michigan’s Jewish community Monday, <a href="https://x.com/AbdulElSayed/status/2094439339681828951">posting on X</a> that he was “grateful” to join the Michigan Jewish Democrats at their Summer Simcha event. “There is so much more that we agree on than what divides us,” El-Sayed wrote. “Glad to share space with this thoughtful, vibrant community.”
Rogers, however, said El-Sayed’s latest remarks did not amount to a genuine apology. “When someone says you might have been offended by what I said, that’s not an apology,” Rogers said in an interview with Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends. “He has a long history, Brian, of antisemitic comments, inflammatory comments. He’s angry. He’s aggressive.”
Rogers argued that El-Sayed’s change in tone was driven by political pressure rather than a genuine change in his views, especially since El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign is attempting to attract Jewish Democrats uncomfortable with his record.
“The polling said, hey, he needed to change this,” Rogers said, pointing to what he described as a growing number of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-ag-warns-el-sayed-is-making-excuses-for-domestic-terrorism?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=13&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Democratic+AG+Warns+El-Sayed+Is+Making+%E2%80%98Excuses%E2%80%99+For+Domestic+Terrorism">Jewish Democrats in Michigan</a> supporting his campaign. “We’ve had big events. That group is swelling by the day. So that was his sad attempt, I think, to try to stem that bleeding.”
“But listen, you are who you are,” he added. “This guy is so thick with that angry rhetoric about antisemitism, and it is causing real problems around the state.”
El-Sayed’s apology comes amid broader scrutiny of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hasan-piker-brags-el-sayed-is-faking-moderation-to-scam-voters">his relationship with Hasan Piker</a>, the America-hating political streamer who campaigned alongside El-Sayed during the Democratic primary. El-Sayed has said he does not plan to campaign with Piker during the general election, but has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-defends-alliance-with-hasan-piker-in-newly-circulated-video">stopped well short of condemning him</a>.
The Democratic nominee defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the August primary despite concerns from some Jewish Democrats over his views on Israel and his associations with Piker. 
Rogers said those concerns are becoming increasingly apparent. 
“We talked to a Jewish woman the other day, University of Michigan, who has to hide her Star of David because she’s afraid to walk to class because of the aggressive behavior toward her because she’s Jewish,” Rogers said. “We’ve got to stop this.”
“Abdul’s too extreme for this state,” he added. “And we’re going to beat him in November.”

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Republican leaders are increasingly turning against data center development even as the Trump administration remains staunchly in favor of building them. 
Across red states, Republicans who once welcomed the economic investment promised by artificial intelligence infrastructure are beginning to pump the brakes as constituents raise concerns about electricity prices and water consumption. 
Texas State Sen. Charles Schwertner said a July hearing revealed growing unease among Texas landowners. “After hearing hours of testimony from Texas landowners, one thing is clear: landowners deserve a fair and transparent (Certificate of Convenience and Necessity). Texans’ property rights must be protected,” he <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/texas-transmission-lines-landowners-puc-permian-22366999.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a>. 
Republicans elsewhere are not just sounding the alarm, but introducing legislation to block the tech industry’s newest wave to please their constituents. Oklahoma State Senator Kendal Sacchieri <a href="https://oksenate.gov/press-releases/senator-sacchieri-files-legislation-address-unknown-impacts-data-centers-oklahoma">wants</a> to impose a three-year statewide moratorium on new data centers. “By pausing further development, the state can gain empirical evidence on how large-scale data centers interact with Oklahoma’s infrastructure and environment, and tailor regulations that protect residents and ratepayers without undermining economic prospects,” she said. 
In key 2026 races, battleground candidates like Mike Rogers in Michigan, Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin, and Ken Paxton in Texas have all signaled increased opposition to data centers in recent weeks.
But while Republican lawmakers face pressure to slow data-center development at home, they are receiving the opposite message from the top of their party. President Donald Trump has made expanding America&#8217;s artificial intelligence infrastructure a major component of his economic and national security agenda, but in July, the president seemed to offer his fellow Republicans a compromise to bring back home. Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/07/president-trumps-ratepayer-protection-pledge-secures-american-ai-dominance-protects-consumers/">hosted</a> an event where over 200 utilities, tech companies, and governors agreed to ensure artificial intelligence data centers are paying for their energy infrastructure without raising residential bills. This allows states to keep building data centers, but makes them pay for themselves by requiring them to BYOE (bring their own energy). 
One week later, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was one of the governors who signed President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge at the July event, appeared to embrace that approach. Abbott announced that his administration would subject data centers seeking to connect to the Texas electric grid to an energy audit. Projects that demonstrate they can supply their own electricity could move through the review process, while those planning to draw heavily from the Texas grid could see their requests to build getting denied.
“Texans must come first,” Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit">said</a>. “Any project that fails to comply with the requirements set forth by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas must be denied connection to the Texas grid.” The governor did not say how long the review process would take. But the scale of the requests facing Texas regulators illustrates why the issue has become politically difficult to ignore.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas is weighing connection requests that, if granted, would total more than five times the state&#8217;s record peak electricity demand, with roughly 90% of those requests coming from data centers. Texas lawmakers have warned that the “unprecedented load growth could endanger the reliability and stability of the Texas electric grid.” 
Abbott&#8217;s response seems to have left Texas business interests pleased but angered his rural base. Venture capitalist Jason Calacanis, who left Silicon Valley for Texas, emphasized that Abbott&#8217;s action was not a ban on development. “Governor Abbott announced this week an energy audit,” Calacanis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVzYGVJ8zUk">said</a>. “Not that he’s going to slow things down, not that it’s a moratorium but that everybody has to go through an energy audit.” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller seemed to have the same read as Calacanis, calling Abbott’s latest move “all smoke and mirrors.” 
“He [Abbott] hasn’t done anything really,” Miller <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/06/sid-miller-republicans-elections-data-centers-abbott/">said</a>. “It’s all smoke and mirrors and campaign fluff to gain votes. It’s not about the people of Texas or protecting our grid or protecting our water or protecting our land base.”

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President Donald Trump’s allied super PAC is taking its $400 million war chest into the midterms, beginning with a Michigan rally headlined by Vice President JD Vance and featuring several of the state’s top Republican candidates.
MAGA Inc. announced Thursday that Vance will appear Monday in Sterling Heights alongside Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, gubernatorial nominee Rep. John James, and 10th Congressional District nominee Mike Bouchard Jr.
“MAGA Inc. will be hosting events throughout the nation to ensure that Republicans retain control of Congress in order to finish cleaning up the mess the Biden-Harris-Pelosi-Schumer Democrats left,” MAGA Inc. spokesman Alex Pfeiffer told <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/27/congress/maga-inc-michigan-event-midterms-jd-vance-01053671">Politico</a>. “We’re not going back to their record inflation, open borders, and surging crime.&#8221;
The event marks one of MAGA Inc.’s first major public moves of the general election after sitting on a massive cash reserve during the 2026 cycle so far.
MAGA Inc. reported more than $400 million in cash on hand heading into the general election, giving Trump&#8217;s political operation enormous financial resources to deploy during the campaign&#8217;s final months.  Republican candidates and party officials have spent months pressing Trump and his political operation to begin putting that money to work in competitive races.
Until recently, however, MAGA Inc. had spent only a small fraction of its available funds. The group’s most significant recent expenditure came Monday, when it spent $827,711 on phone calls and text messages <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unloads-campaign-war-chest-for-the-first-time-of-2026-in-a-gop-primary?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Unloads+Campaign+War+Chest+For+The+First+Time+Of+2026+%E2%80%94+In+A+GOP+Primary">supporting Sen. Darline Graham</a> in the South Carolina Republican runoff. 
The Michigan rally represents a different kind of move: a public event designed to put the Trump administration’s most prominent surrogate alongside multiple candidates in a key battleground state.
Rogers, a former congressman and Army veteran, is running to claim Michigan’s open Senate seat for Republicans after winning the GOP nomination. He will face Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing former Detroit health official who emerged from a bruising Democratic primary earlier this month. 
Republicans have identified Michigan as one of their most promising Senate pickup opportunities as they attempt to defend their majority in the upper chamber.
James, who currently serves in Congress, is running for governor after two unsuccessful campaigns for the Senate. Bouchard is seeking the open House seat in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District.
MAGA Inc.&#8217;s reserve adds to a significant Republican financial advantage. GOP committees and allied congressional super PACs reported roughly $657 million in cash on hand at the end of June, compared with approximately $334 million for their Democratic counterparts. MAGA Inc.’s more than $400 million reserve sits outside those figures.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-democrats-cash-crunch-and-what-it-means-for-2026-and-beyond">Democrats are also confronting financial difficulties</a> at the national party level. The Democratic National Committee reported only $16.3 million in cash on hand and $18.5 million in debt at the end of June. By comparison, the Republican National Committee reported $128.5 million in cash and no debt.
Despite that financial advantage, Republicans still face the historical challenge confronting the party that controls the White House during a midterm election.
Trump has promised to spend heavily on Republican candidates as Election Day approaches.
“I’ll be spending a lot of that money, and my own money, for candidates that I think are good — Republican candidates that I think are good,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2090929512590582107?s=20">said</a> earlier this month.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is escalating her criticism of the Democratic Party’s handling of antisemitism, warning that the party has become increasingly hostile to Jewish Americans and expressing concern that U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has never withdrawn comments she says appeared to rationalize an attempted attack on a Michigan synagogue.
Nessel, a Jewish Democrat who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-democrat-ag-wont-attend-partys-convention-due-to-safety-concerns">previously announced</a> that she would skip the Michigan Democratic Party’s upcoming state convention because she feared being harassed, discussed her concerns Wednesday on The Atlantic’s “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/08/david-frum-show-dana-nessel-jewish-voters-michigan/688413/">The David Frum Show.</a>”
“I began to perceive an enormous amount of antisemitism within the Democratic Party,” Nessel told host David Frum, saying the problem had intensified following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. Nessel said she has faced antisemitic death threats since taking office, but that the nature of the hostility changed after October 7. 
“I would say mentally unstable people on the far Right that were threatening me or other Jews, but now it became really a both-sides situation,” she said.
The comments come as Michigan Democrats remain divided over El-Sayed, a left-wing Senate candidate who defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the Democratic primary and is now the party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate seat.
Nessel specifically pointed to El-Sayed’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-senate-candidate-admits-he-struggles-to-say-israel-has-a-right-to-exist">response</a> to the March 12 attempted attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, a synagogue with a large preschool where approximately 140 children were present.
El-Sayed initially condemned the attack, saying there was “no room for antisemitism in America.” But in a <a href="https://x.com/AbdulElSayed/status/2032529011646038257?s=20">video</a> released the following day, he went further, linking the attempted attack to the deaths of the gunman’s relatives in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. 
“A week earlier, an airstrike killed [the gunman&#8217;s] niece and nephew,” El-Sayed said. “Imagine if that had never happened. Imagine there was no war in Iran. Imagine if there were no airstrikes in Lebanon.”
He then said Americans could “and must” condemn both the attack on Temple Israel and U.S. military action overseas. Nessel said she believes that framing amounted to an unacceptable attempt to contextualize or excuse domestic terrorism. 
“I don’t think we should ever be making those kinds of excuses,” Nessel said. “And in a way, propping up people who maybe seek to commit those crimes.”
Nessel said she believes El-Sayed privately regrets the remarks after meetings with Jewish elected officials and members of Michigan’s Jewish Democratic caucus. But she said that, nearly six months later, he has still not publicly withdrawn the comments. “He still has not withdrawn those statements and said, ‘I misspoke,’ or, ‘I now recognize the harm that I caused by making those statements,’” Nessel said. “And it has me concerned that he really stands by them.”
Nessel said she has increasingly encountered what she views as a fundamental misunderstanding of Judaism, Israel, and the relationship between Jews around the world and the Jewish state. 
“I think that’s really caused a rise in, again, they would call it anti-Zionism, but I call it antisemitism,” she said.
Her concerns have already prompted Nessel to take the unusual step of skipping her own party’s state convention. Nessel announced last month that she would not attend the August 29 Michigan Democratic Party convention in Lansing because she believed she would be heckled or booed. 
“I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome,” Nessel said at the time. “I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage.” 
She said she believed that would happen because “it’s been happening to me.”
El-Sayed has embraced prominent anti-Israel activists during his campaign, including appearing with leftist streamer Hasan Piker. Former Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow, another prominent Michigan Democrat, has also acknowledged antisemitism within the party. McMorrow <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/mcmorrow-says-dems-have-an-antisemitism-problem-during-mich-senate-debate/">said</a> earlier this year that an attendee at the Michigan Democratic Party&#8217;s onvention directed an antisemitic slur at her Jewish husband while he was walking with their young daughter.
El-Sayed has rejected the notion that criticism of his Israel policies is evidence of antisemitism, arguing that antisemitism and Islamophobia are both manifestations of what he called “the scourge of white supremacy.” Nessel&#8217;s warning comes less than three days before Michigan Democrats are scheduled to gather in Lansing, where Nessel herself will be absent because she fears the reaction of fellow Democrats.
“I still — I leave hope for the fact that Abdul will have heard what many of us have said about why we’re very upset about those remarks,” Nessel said. “And that he will seek to, I don’t want to say clarify, but at least to withdraw those earlier remarks.”
“He still hasn’t done it,” she added. “But I hope that we’ll hear more from him about this soon.”

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A sheikh at a Dearborn Heights, Michigan, mosque said Islam and the Shiite faith are “coming to America” and declared that believers will help “build America” on what he called a foundation of Islamic moral civilization.
Sheikh Ibrahim Yassine, a resident scholar at the Islamic Institute of America, made the remarks during his August 14 sermon, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which documented and translated the speech from a video posted by the mosque.
“We will build America on the basis of moral civilization and Islam,” Yassine said. “What they have is no civilization. It is nothing but worldly life, nothing but technology. For them, civilization means killing nations and plundering their resources, even if it means killing all the people.”
Yassine then turned his attention to President Donald Trump, invoking the president&#8217;s warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” as an example of what he described as a dangerous American mentality. 
“He wants to kill you,” Yassine said of Trump. “This is a sick mentality.”
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Shiite Islamic Scholar Ibrahim Yassine at Dearborn Heights Mosque: Islam and the Shiite Faith Are Coming to America; We Will Build America on the Basis of Moral Civilization and Islam <a href="https://t.co/6oOacD1Yp7">pic.twitter.com/6oOacD1Yp7</a>
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) <a href="https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2092908378687152464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Yassine said the growth of Islam and the Shiite faith in America would not be an effort to sow discord, but would be pursued through “reason,” “logic,” religion, and “moral values.” 
“We should be among the best citizens in America,” he said.
The remarks are not the first time Yassine has criticized Trump. During a March 6 Ramadan gathering at the Islamic Education Center in Orlando, Florida, Yassine mocked Trump over his interest in Iran&#8217;s selection of a new supreme leader following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Trump, he wants to choose the jurisprudent leader of Iran,” Yassine said, according to MEMRI&#8217;s translation. “I mean this man is stupid and crazy.”
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<a href="https://x.com/hashtag/ICYMI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICYMI</a>: In Orlando Mosque, Shiite Scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Yassine Congratulates Mojtaba Khamenei on Election as Iran’s Supreme Leader, Adds: Trump Is a Stupid and Crazy Man Surrounded by Thugs and Smugglers, While Khamenei Did Nothing Bad to Anyone, Everybody Loved Him <a href="https://t.co/X4Qr4imfJ1">pic.twitter.com/X4Qr4imfJ1</a>
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) <a href="https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2033277806453604738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Yassine went on to praise Khamenei, describing him as a “pious” and “humble” man who was loved by the oppressed around the world. 
He then congratulated Khamenei&#8217;s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, on his selection as Iran&#8217;s new supreme leader.
“I would like to congratulate us and the whole Shiite Islamic nation on the election of Mojtaba Khamenei,” Yassine said, according to MEMRI. He called the development an “important and blessed step” by the people of Iran and the Assembly of Experts.
In 2016, he attacked Israel at a Quds Day event in Detroit, claiming the Palestinian issue was not merely a political or regional dispute.
According to remarks documented by MEMRI, he described Israel as a “plundering entity” that spreads corruption beyond the Middle East.
“Allah has promised that this plundering entity will be annihilated, and it must be annihilated, by the efforts of the believers,” Yassine said, according to MEMRI&#8217;s translation.
Yassine is not the only imam at the institute whose sermons have drawn scrutiny. In a July 17 sermon at the Islamic Institute of America, Shiite scholar Mohammad Qazwini celebrated the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), saying Allah had “taken his soul and threw him in Hell.” 
“Last Sunday, we woke up with very good news,” he said. “Suddenly we hear that Lindsey Graham … Allah took his soul and threw him in Hell. Blessings upon Muhammad and the household of Muhammad.”
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<a href="https://x.com/hashtag/ICYMI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICYMI</a>: Dearborn Heights Shiite Scholar Mohammad Qazwini Celebrates Lindsey Graham’s Death: Allah Slapped Him and Took His Soul to Hell; Says Graham Told His Friend President Trump That He Had More Plans to Finish His Job, Let’s Ask Allah to Also Take Graham’s Friend <a href="https://t.co/gFjFxFocGw">pic.twitter.com/gFjFxFocGw</a>
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) <a href="https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2086498491237535845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Qazwini blamed Graham for what he called the “genocide in Gaza” and the killing of civilians in Lebanon, then asked congregants to pray that Allah would also take Graham&#8217;s “friend,” President Trump.
Qazwini also called on the congregation to pray for “victory to Islam and the Muslims” and for Allah to “humiliate the infidels and the hypocrites” and bring “wrath, vengeance, and punishment upon Israel.”
In a July 31 sermon, Qazwini endorsed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, telling congregants that Muslim men and women had a responsibility to elect him because he is Muslim and would support Muslim interests in the United States.
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Michigan Shiite Scholar Mohammed Qazwini: It Is Mandatory to Support Brother Abdul El-Sayed; Every Muslim Man and Woman Has an Obligation to Elect Him Because He Is a Muslim and Will Support Muslim Issues in This Country <a href="https://t.co/dCwezhuu3V">pic.twitter.com/dCwezhuu3V</a>
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The founder and senior scholar of the mosque, Hassan Qazwini, also urged congregants to vote in the August 4 Democratic primary, in which El-Sayed was seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, according to MEMRI. 
Qazwini said “Zionists” were spending more than $16 million to “hijack” voters&#8217; voices and urged Muslims to use their ballots to “deal the Zionists a big blow.” 
The institute has also hosted memorial events for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Lebanese Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, according to MEMRI. After Nasrallah was killed, Qazwini praised martyrdom. 
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Dearborn Heights Shiite Scholar Hassan Qazwini: Please, Please Vote on Tuesday; The Way to Deal the Zionists a Big Blow is to Go and Cast Your Vote – Don’t Allow the Zionists to Hijack Your Vote <a href="https://t.co/XtJ3Nlv4t2">pic.twitter.com/XtJ3Nlv4t2</a>
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) <a href="https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/2084524192737665142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The National Rifle Association is going on the road for the 2026 midterm elections, launching its first-ever national bus tour Thursday to mobilize gun owners across 13 states where control of Congress and statehouses is up for grabs, the group exclusively told The Daily Wire.
The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) launched the 2026 NRA’s Gun Bus Battleground Tour, sending a tour bus on a more than two-month, 63-stop trek through key battleground states. The tour will conclude on Election Day, November 3.
The tour is designed to bring NRA-ILA staff and volunteers directly to voters rather than relying on traditional campaign advertising. “Gun owners don’t need another polished ad interrupting their favorite show. They need real conversations about what’s at stake for the Second Amendment,” NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford told the Daily Wire. “The Gun Bus Tour puts NRA staff and volunteers on the ground where it matters most — talking directly with the men and women who form the backbone of this organization,” Commerford continued. “This is how we build lasting political power: one conversation, one neighborhood, one vote at a time.”
The tour will travel through Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Stops will range from gun stores and manufacturing facilities to college football tailgates and community events, including Michigan’s annual Oktoberfest. The tour will also feature appearances from pro-Second Amendment candidates running for local, state, and federal office.
The NRA’s first stop will be in Dillon, Montana, at Montana’s Biggest Weekend, a Labor Day celebration centered around the Beaverhead County Fair. The event includes rodeo competitions, livestock shows, a carnival, a country music concert, and a parade.
Other stops include college football matchups, including the Iowa vs. Iowa State tailgate in Iowa City; the Wisconsin vs. Penn State tailgate in State College, Pennsylvania; and the Kentucky vs. South Carolina tailgate festivities in Columbia, South Carolina. They will also stop at the NRA’s National Sporting Clays Championship in San Antonio, Texas.
The tour comes as Republicans defend their majorities in both chambers of Congress and as gun rights remain a major dividing line between the parties. The NRA says its goal is to ensure that pro-Second Amendment candidates retain control of Congress and state governments while supporting candidates in critical state and local races.
NRA CEO Doug Hamlin warned that recent gains for gun owners could be reversed if Republicans lose control of Congress or statehouses. “Across the country, the NRA is working tirelessly to advance and protect the rights of law-abiding citizens,” Hamlin said. “Thanks to our incredible staff and millions of NRA members, we have secured major victories that have ushered in a golden age of gun ownership.”
“However, while we are enjoying unprecedented success, if we lose pro-gun majorities in Congress and the statehouses, the incredible gains we have made can be wiped out by the stroke of a pen,” he added. “That is why it is more critical than ever for gun owners to get activated and vote to protect their sacred, God-given rights.&#8221;

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Michigan has a Democratic Senate seat that the Democrats need to maintain, and it has now become open. The candidate they have chosen for this is Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim who supports radical Islam in pretty much every manifestation he can find.
He lies about it, but it&#8217;s not much of a lie considering he has openly stated that he was not going to talk about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei because too many of his friends and supporters were upset about it. He literally equated a radical Muslim attacking a bunch of Jewish schoolchildren in Detroit with the idea of the IDF killing a member of Hezbollah.
He spends his days hanging out with CAIR; his family members are pretty much openly connected with Muslim Brotherhood-associated groups. And of course, he has campaigned alongside anti-American Twitch streamer Hasan Piker over and over and over again.
On Monday, he decided to go on Fox News for an interview with Jesse Watters, and it got awkward because one of the very weird things about the sort of red-green alliance, the radical Left-radical Islam alliance, is that it makes for strange bedfellows.
Muslims generally don’t want transing of the kids. But Abdul El-Sayed is a good Democrat because he needs the coalition, and they support transing of the kids.
“You&#8217;re a doctor, right?” Watters asked. “So you think it&#8217;s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?
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“Do you really want to have this conversation?” El-Sayed replied. “Are you circumcised?”
“Yeah, but, I mean, that&#8217;s a personal question,” Watters answered.
“You probably should want to move on,” El-Sayed warned. “You probably should want to move on.
“And circumcision is different than castration,” Watters added.
“I think it&#8217;s a problem,” El-Sayed said. “It&#8217;s a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient. And I&#8217;m just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid&#8217;s ding-a-ling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about these things.”
Watters: “Abdul, Michigan&#8217;s not going for that.”
Imagine if El-Sayed asked whether it&#8217;s okay to cut people&#8217;s heads off, and he responds, “Hey, have you ever had a tonsillectomy?”
This is where we are now. He is asked about cutting small boys’ genitals off, and he answers with, &#8220;Are you circumcised?&#8221;
These are not the same thing. In fact, the only sort of female or male surgery for a child that would be in the same category would be female circumcision, but even that is different, because male circumcision still leaves the member intact and fully working. That is not the case with female circumcision, which is commonly practiced in many areas of the world.
El-Sayed’s comparison is crazy, even more so when you consider that Muslims are generally very pro-circumcision and against transing the kids.
But the Democratic coalition and power are all that matter here.
El-Sayed is a radical. In July 2025, he openly said that it was America that had created terrorists, saying:
<blockquote>I think the approach that we&#8217;ve often taken in terrorism has been to figure out how to leverage the might of the U.S. military to go in and root out certain terrorist organizations and where that&#8217;s necessary, that&#8217;s necessary.
But I also think we need to be curious about why those things happen in the first place. Like what drives somebody to want to commit such a heinous act? &#8230; part of what we have to understand is that sometimes when we move, we create so much collateral damage, because too often we have been on the wrong side of our own policies.</blockquote>
This is a person who truly hates America.
He compared Sharia law to canon law, saying, “The idea that I could practice my faith as I choose is a problem. Nobody is trying to push Sharia on anyone else. Just like I hope nobody is trying to push canon law on anybody else.”
“Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else” is a hell of a statement globally, because that is not true on a global level at all.
El-Sayed has been out campaigning with Hasan Piker, who mocked Charlie Kirk’s death. Piker has no redeeming features. His fans are worse than he is because when he tried to walk back some of his anti-American rhetoric, his fans booed him for doing it. He told them America didn’t deserve 9/11, and his fans booed him because they know he&#8217;s lying about what he thinks; they know he&#8217;s lying because, of course, he believes America deserved 9/11.
Then he came out and suggested that the Democrats who have condemned his remarks about Charlie Kirk are somehow worse than Republicans. He said:
<blockquote>I think if you are a liberal and you lean into the Republican pearl-clutching operation around the martyrization of Charlie Kirk, you are literally in my estimation, you&#8217;re lower than the Republicans. Okay? You are the dogs*** that is stuck to the bottom of my shoe.</blockquote>
The fact that this person is treated as a mainstream voice within the Democratic Party and by the entire media is amazing. He also spent the weekend suggesting that Jews who support Israel are fair game.
I want to hear about real Judaism from Hasan Piker. What does Judaism mean? I think Hasan Piker should define it. His knowledge of Judaism is distilled wisdom.
Here&#8217;s what he&#8217;s really doing. His whole idea is that if you are a Jew who believes in truly Jewish ideas, you&#8217;re not really a Jew. Thus, if you&#8217;re attacked, you&#8217;re not being attacked for being a Jew. You&#8217;re being attacked for being bad. The Jews who agree with Hasan Piker are the ones who are okay.
This is the entire game right now of the antisemitic Left and some of the antisemitic Right: to say Zionist instead of Jew, because most Jews are Zionists, meaning that they believe there ought to be a Jewish state in Israel.
You know why we believe that? Because we have been praying for that three times a day for 3,000 years. We have been praying for it since the destruction of the Second Temple. It is a core part of Jewishness to believe there ought to be Jewish governance in Israel. That is a core part of being Jewish.
El-Sayed put out a statement: “I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence. This is particularly true for communities that have been intimidated for their beliefs in the past. My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters.”
I don&#8217;t believe him for one solitary second, because I promise you that if somebody attacked his daughter&#8217;s preschool, he would not be saying “Hurt people hurt people,” which is what he said when a Jewish preschool was attacked by a radical Muslim.
He says anti-Semitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all of its forms. He said, “To be crystal-clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”
Piker said on Tuesday:
<blockquote>There are going to be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdul El-Sayed’s sincerity on these issues that will then turn around and say, &#8220;Oh, he’s, you know, he’s moderating his position on Israel,&#8221; all this stuff. I don’t think he is. Okay, I will say this. I am literally the person that is being dangled. And I’m going to tell you once again, he’s not moderating on his perspective on Israel or anything like that. His reaction to this has always been very good, which is, &#8220;Look, I deal with people that I don’t fully agree with and don’t fully subscribe to on a daily basis.&#8221; This is politics. Politics is about addition, not subtraction, right?
It’s smart. It’s the right way to deal with it and then deflect back to the issues because they are the ones who are engaging in the deflection, okay?</blockquote>
That should make things perfectly clear.

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Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker claimed that Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is practicing deception by pretending to create distance between himself and Piker, insisting the candidate&#8217;s core positions haven&#8217;t shifted an inch.
Piker, who previously claimed &#8220;America deserved 9/11&#8221; and praised Hamas, pulled back the curtain on El-Sayed’s damage-control act following nationwide outrage over Piker’s latest toxic rant against Jewish Americans. Piker reassured his audience that El-Sayed’s public statements are merely a calculated political play and that El-Sayed remains fully in his camp.
&#8220;There are going to be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdul El-Sayed&#8217;s sincerity on these issues that will then turn around and say, &#8216;Oh, he&#8217;s, you know, he&#8217;s moderating his position on Israel,&#8217; all this stuff. I don&#8217;t think he is,&#8221; Piker said. &#8220;Okay, I will say this. I am literally the person that is being dangled. And I&#8217;m going to tell you once again, he&#8217;s not moderating on his perspective on Israel or anything like that. His reaction to this has always been very good, which is, &#8216;Look, I deal with people that I don&#8217;t fully agree with and don&#8217;t fully subscribe to on a daily basis. This is politics. Politics is about addition, not subtraction, right?'&#8221;
“It&#8217;s smart,” he continued. “It&#8217;s the right way to deal with it and then deflect back to the issues because they are the ones who are engaging in the deflection, okay?”
The political firestorm erupted after Piker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hasan-piker-delivers-ominous-warning-to-pro-israel-jews">accused</a> Jewish institutions in America of &#8220;making antisemitism worse&#8221; and warning that continued support for Israel would lead to violence against American Jews, comparing Israel to &#8220;Jewish ISIS.&#8221;
The incendiary comments triggered swift backlash. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) condemned the sentiment as &#8220;dangerous and antisemitic,&#8221; while Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) torched Piker as a &#8220;hack who thrives on hate, shock, and awe.&#8221;
El-Sayed issued a weak statement in response, claiming that &#8220;nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople&#8221; and insisting he stands against rhetoric that puts communities at risk.
But Piker said that El-Sayed’s PR pivot is simply theater meant to deflect media scrutiny while keeping his supporters close.
El-Sayed has steadfastly refused to dump his online buddy. On &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; El-Sayed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-shrugs-off-hasan-pikers-9-11-comments">brushed off</a> Piker’s infamous 9/11 comments as just a &#8220;dumb statement&#8221; and whined about &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; instead of condemning Piker.
When <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-gives-el-sayed-a-chance-to-renounce-hasan-piker-he-does-the-opposite">pressed</a> by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on whether he would renounce Piker following warnings from Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), El-Sayed doubled down, insisting he was focused on reaching Piker’s millions of followers.
Michigan GOP senatorial candidate Mike Rogers slammed El-Sayed’s PR maneuvers, saying, “Abdul&#8217;s attempt at distancing himself from this violent and hateful rhetoric now that he and Hasan won the primary is the epitome of what a conman does — says one thing when it serves him and another when it doesn&#8217;t.”
RNC spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre has dubbed the candidate a &#8220;terrorist sympathizer,&#8221; and &#8220;America-hating socialist,&#8221; adding, &#8220;His refusal to distance himself from Hamas-hugging radicals like Hasan Piker reaffirms his true allegiance is to terrorist groups, not America. Democrats’ refusal to disavow this clown shows they either share his poisonous ideology or they’re too cowardly to confront it.”
The Daily Wire reached out to El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign for comment.

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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed urged a group of young boys to &#8220;have conversations with all your neighbors&#8221; about the upcoming elections in a video he released Tuesday on social media.
&#8220;All our kids are all our kids,&#8221; El-Sayed wrote in the video&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/AbdulElSayed/status/2092280307596558448">caption</a>.
The Democratic candidate joined the boys, many of whom wore &#8220;Youth for Abdul&#8221; shirts, on a soccer field and explained how decisions made in Washington would affect their futures.
&#8220;My whole job is to go to Washington, D.C., to try and make laws that are better for you,&#8221; he told the boys. &#8220;That&#8217;s the whole point. So you have better schools, so that you can breathe cleaner air, you can drink cleaner water, so we don&#8217;t go send our money to kill other people instead of keeping it here, to protect you and give you healthcare, to make sure your parents have good jobs, that they have protections from a union.&#8221;
&#8220;The world that we&#8217;re building right now is the world you&#8217;re going to live in a lot longer,&#8221; he continued, adding, &#8220;When you are going out having conversations with all your neighbors and talking about elections and voting, what you&#8217;re asking them to do is build a future that&#8217;s better for you guys.&#8221;
El-Sayed told the children that he wanted them to &#8220;fight for their future&#8221; and promised he would do the same if elected to the Senate in November.
Some social media users objected to El-Sayed&#8217;s &#8220;all our kids&#8221; caption, interpreting it as suggesting that children belong collectively to the broader community, and <a href="https://x.com/CatB99261688/status/2092298658897097204">ripped</a> the Democrat for the lack of diversity in the video.
El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
The caption El-Sayed used for the post is similar to a quote from civil rights activist James Baldwin, who <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/notes-house-bondage/">wrote</a> in The Nation in 1980, “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin espoused many socialist ideals and <a href="https://lvdsa.org/2020/07/08/socialist-spotlight-james-baldwin/">argued</a> for socialism to be implemented in the United States.
El-Sayed has attempted to distance himself from socialism throughout his Senate campaign, telling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-a-socialist-michigans-mamdani-has-the-lefts-new-playbook-but-doesnt-want-the-new-label">The Daily Wire</a> in February, &#8220;I&#8217;m a scientist. I’m not a socialist.”
Yet many of El-Sayed&#8217;s <a href="https://abdulforsenate.com/priority/money-in-your-pocket/#h-taxing-billionaire-wealth">positions</a> are indistinguishable from socialist ideals, and he has campaigned with democratic socialists, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He has also joined forces with Marxist streamer Hasan Piker, whom he refuses to disavow even after Piker made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hasan-piker-delivers-ominous-warning-to-pro-israel-jews">threatening comments</a> warning pro-Israel Jews to stop supporting the country before somebody “takes action” against them.

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