‘ELECT ABDUL…’: Jamie Raskin delivers a fiery message on how an Abdul El-Sayed victory could challenge Donald Trump and push back against his agenda.
Speaking to supporters, Raskin praised Abdul El-Sayed and urged voters to recognize the importance of the upcoming election in shaping the political balance in Washington and beyond.
The remarks come as Democrats look to build momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms, with Trump and his policies becoming a central issue in the campaign.
Watch the full remarks as Jamie Raskin rallies the crowd, backs Abdul El-Sayed and lays out why he believes an El-Sayed victory could deliver a major political blow
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Speaking to supporters, Raskin praised Abdul El-Sayed and urged voters to recognize the importance of the upcoming election in shaping the political balance in Washington and beyond.
The remarks come as Democrats look to build momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms, with Trump and his policies becoming a central issue in the campaign.
Watch the full remarks as Jamie Raskin rallies the crowd, backs Abdul El-Sayed and lays out why he believes an El-Sayed victory could deliver a major political blow
#JamieRaskin #AbdulElSayed #DonaldTrump #Trump #Midterms2026 #Michigan #USPolitics #Democrats #Election2026 #TrumpAgenda #BreakingNews #Politics #MidtermElections
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00:11Thank you, Mayor Rich. Hello to all you beautiful groups of Democrats and Independents and even
00:19some sane Republicans out there. Thank you for the beautiful weather. I was in Washington recently
00:30where it was stifling because it's not just the heat, it's the stupidity. And you can cut with a
00:38knife. I've been amazed. I've been all over your beautiful state the last several days. And I was
00:45traveling with your ex-Congresswoman from the 1st District, Callie Barr, in the Upper Peninsula.
00:55And then I was in the 4th District with the ex-Congressman from Sean McCann.
01:03And I noticed, I couldn't help but notice the beauty of your state, the sunshine of your state,
01:10the weather, the incredible beaches at Lake Michigan. And my first question for Abdul is,
01:19why did Mike Rogers move to Florida?
01:30I mean, I was in Saugatuck and that was pretty beautiful there. You know,
01:36you guys have it all going on here. And Michigan is at the crossroads of the 2026 elections, which is
01:44why I felt so, I felt it was so important to come and be with you guys here. You know,
01:51we're just
01:53three seats behind in the U.S. House of Representatives. And we can win all three of those
02:00new seats right here in Michigan.
02:08You can give us the majority in the House. And if you elect Abdul, you will give us the majority
02:14in the U.S. Senate too.
02:22In this momentous election, between democracy and freedom on one side, and
02:28autocracy and corruption on the other side, I am proud to be here in Michigan to award your next
02:37senator, Abdul Sayed. And we need Abdul in the Senate because he's an epidemiologist at a time of
02:51rampant disease, like measles from Texas to Pennsylvania, where two people died just yesterday.
02:58He's a public health specialist and expert at a time when the Secretary of Health and Human Services is
03:07Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
03:13Abdul is the former director of the Department of Health and Human Services of Wayne County.
03:18He's a public health authority who got free eyeglasses to Detroit public school children.
03:31He got led out of the public schools. He is the senator we need to lead the fight in the
03:38Senate
03:39against all of the insurance companies' special interests in order to get Medicare for all passed
03:46in the United States of America.
03:55health care must be a basic human rights for every citizen in America and not a high price luxury for
04:04the wealthy. It belongs to everybody.
04:10You know, we're spending more on health care than any country in the world, $15,000 per person, and we're
04:19getting worse outcomes in terms of life expectancy, in terms of infant and maternal mortality, in terms of chronic illness.
04:28And so, Abdul, I'm counting on you to get to the Senate and turn this around and start to make
04:36progress again for our people.
04:46That's what this election is about.
04:49Now, one party, our party, says the government must be an instrument for the common good and the public well
04:57-being for every person in the country.
05:00And the other party says the government is an instrument for the private self-enrichment of one guy and his
05:08family and his businesses and the corruption of the government.
05:12It's time for us to take America back from MAGA.
05:28You know, thank you.
05:31My friends, I've traveled all over America now.
05:35I think this is my 21st, 22nd state that I've been on this tour.
05:39And I've got to tell you, I'm proud to be a Democrat right now.
05:43I've never been prouder to be a Democrat than I am right now.
05:47You know, sometimes our colleagues across the aisle, like my friend Lauren, they've got a hard time correctly pronouncing the
05:56name of our party in its adjectival form.
05:59So they'll say, you know, that Democrat congresswoman and the Democrat party and that Democrat bill.
06:05And for nine years, I got up and I, like a gentleman, not as a gentleman, but like a gentleman,
06:12like a gentleman, I would gently correct them.
06:15I'd say, actually, Democrat is the noun.
06:20Democratic is the adjective.
06:22You've got to say the Democratic party, the Democratic congresswoman, the Democratic bill.
06:29And as soon as I did that, they knew it was getting on my nerves.
06:33So then all of them chimed in, Chip, Roy, Jim, Jordan, Johnson, all of them were then Democrat this, Democrat
06:41that, and so on.
06:42And I made a very rookie error.
06:44In politics, you're not supposed to lose your temper unless you plan to lose your temper.
06:49But I actually just kind of lost my temper.
06:51And I got up and I said, you know what?
06:54You guys have this self-imposed political speech impediment.
06:59And it's contagious.
07:00It's coming over to my side.
07:02Now, when I try to say the name of your party, it just comes out the banana Republican party with
07:08the banana Republican gun.
07:10And so I went home and I told my wife.
07:15And I was like, Sarah, I finally got them back after nine years.
07:17And I told her the whole story.
07:18And you know what she said?
07:19She said, that was an extremely immature response.
07:23Okay?
07:24Extremely immature.
07:25And the lucky thing is I was reading this fantastic book I recommend highly to you guys by H.W.
07:34Brand, The Texas Historian.
07:35And it's about Franklin D. Roosevelt.
07:37And it's called Traitor to His Class.
07:40Traitor to His Class.
07:41And I learned something remarkable from that book.
07:43Which is FDR did not call our party the Democratic Party.
07:47Much less the Democrat Party.
07:50You know what he called us?
07:51They exposed it.
07:53Historians did with a capital D.
07:56He called us the democracy.
08:00The democracy.
08:01So he'd say, well, the economic royalists, the plutocrats, say it's enough to invest in the wealthiest corporations in America
08:10and then let some of the wealth dribble down on everybody else.
08:15But FDR said, democracy says, invest in the great American working middle class.
08:22We will all rise and prosper together.
08:26That's the doctrine of the democracy, said FDR.
08:29So now, if they can't pronounce the name of our party correctly, just say, just do what we did.
08:38Call us the democracy.
08:40Because that's what we are today.
08:41We're the only party that's willing to stand up for your right to vote, even if you're not going to
08:46vote for us.
08:47How about that?
08:49We're the only party that will stand by the outcome of free and fair elections and not try to overthrow
08:56them with violent insurrections and coups against democracy.
09:01We are the democracy.
09:03We are the democracy.
09:03And we're going to stand strong for the democracy.
09:05And we're going to stand strong for our freedom.
09:10And now there's a big effort to divide us.
09:13Look at the beautiful diversity in this room.
09:18Let's hear it for Farmington Hills.
09:21You know, they're trying to divide us.
09:26Have you noticed this?
09:28They're trying to divide us.
09:30And one of my colleagues said he's a pretty good guy.
09:34He left early.
09:35He's a Republican.
09:36He left Congress early when he could read the writing on the wall.
09:40A lot of the good Republicans left when they could see what was happening.
09:44And the other ones have been kicked out of their party, like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and Mitt Romney.
09:49They've driven them out.
09:51It's a cult of personality now.
09:53So they're trying to pick on disagreements in our party, try to exacerbate conflict.
09:58And he said, yeah, because we have freedom of thought in our party.
10:02And freedom of speech in our party.
10:04And freedom of dialogue, right?
10:09And he said, Raskin, you're not a bad guy.
10:11The problem with you is you're a liberal.
10:13And I said, you're damn right I'm a liberal.
10:15The heart of that word is liberty.
10:18And I said, I'm a progressive.
10:21Because the heart of that word is progress.
10:23But these days, my very favorite thing to call myself is a conservative.
10:29Because I want to conserve the land, the air, the water, the climate system, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
10:38Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, the National Labor Relations
10:48Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act.
10:51Everything that their party of nihilists and authoritarians want to destroy is everything we're going to defend.
10:59The liberals, the progressives, the conservatives together, we will defeat the autocrats, the plutocrats, the theocrats, and the kleptocrats.
11:23Well, look, my friends, Michigan's about to make history.
11:32Michigan's getting to the center of this election, taking back the House.
11:38And I can feel victory written all over this campaign.
11:48And on the ballot, not just in Michigan, but all over America, is a very simple proposition.
11:57That, well, I've sounded maybe a little bit partisan today.
12:01Forgive me.
12:01Maybe I'll invoke, I'll sound a bipartisan note by invoking our last great Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who spoke of
12:15government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
12:19Thank you, President Lincoln, for your beautiful vision and your courage and devotion to this country.
12:25It's not Abraham Lincoln's party anymore.
12:29And he founded the party, and Donald Trump is destroying that party.
12:34And we can't save them from themselves.
12:37But we can certainly save American democracy and freedom.
12:43That's our job.
12:45My friend, I'm going to leave you with the words, two great democracy patriots I've carried all across the country
12:54with me.
12:55One, Frederick Douglass, who was born 25 minutes away from my house on the Y River Plateau.
13:01He was born into slavery.
13:02He escaped from slavery to become our great freedom fighter through the Civil War and through Reconstruction.
13:08Douglass said, if there's no struggle, there's no progress.
13:12And the struggle may be moral, it may be physical, it may be moral, and physical, but there must be.
13:19There's nothing without a demand.
13:20It never has, and it never will.
13:23A message to you from the great people of Maryland, the free states.
13:28And I'll leave you finally with the words of Tom Paine, who arrived here in 1774.
13:35The great Tom Paine, who my friend Tommy was named after.
13:39And Paine got here two years before the American Revolution.
13:43And he fell in love with the promise of our country.
13:46He said, if this land gives up to its values and its ideals, he said, it will become an asylum
13:53to humanity.
13:55Not an insane asylum, but a place of refuge for people seeking freedom from political, religious, intellectual, economic discrimination and
14:07oppression from all over the world.
14:10And then Tom Paine wrote the great pamphlet of our history.
14:13Common sense, by which he meant the sense we have in common when we're willing to reason together without dogma
14:21and superstition, what we would call today propaganda, disinformation, fake news.
14:27And that pamphlet ignited the American Revolution.
14:30George Washington had the troops reading common sense every night by campfire light at Valley Forge.
14:37But 1776 was a tough year.
14:40We like to think that all of America was together against King George and for independence.
14:47But it wasn't like that.
14:48You got to read this other book by H.W. Brand called The First Civil War, about how the revolution
14:54was like a civil war because it split the country in half.
14:58Ben Franklin's son, the governor of New Jersey, went to jail for siding with the king.
15:03And half the people running around saying you can't beat the greatest military empire that ever existed with the greatest
15:10navy that ever existed.
15:11You can't disentangle church and state and give the freedom of thought and the freedom of conscience.
15:17It won't work.
15:19And then half the people were saying, well, let's give it a try.
15:23Let's gamble on the proposition of equality and freedom and democracy for everybody.
15:29Let's pledge to each other our lives, our property, our sacred honor for the proposition all of us are created
15:40equal.
15:40And we all have an unalienable rights.
15:45Well, Payne wanted to write another pamphlet to give people hope and courage to get through the struggle.
15:53Because he remarked upon himself, you know, the forces of democracy, a little more unruly, a little more disorganized.
16:01You never run around saying what's the message and who's the messenger and all that stuff.
16:05And Payne wanted to give people a sense of resolution and conviction in what they were doing.
16:12And so he wrote this pamphlet called The American Crisis.
16:14And I'm going to quote a little passage for you.
16:16And I'm just going to update it to strict instructions from Nancy Pelosi,
16:20who told me that Tom Payne was a feminist and he wouldn't mind.
16:25And he was fighting for women's voting rights in the 1870s.
16:28He was an abolitionist then, too.
16:30But Tom Payne wrote this.
16:32He said, these are the times that try men and women's souls.
16:36The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will shrink at this moment from the service of their cause and their
16:44country.
16:44But everyone that stands with us now will win the love and the favor and the affection of every man
16:51and every woman for all time.
16:54Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.
16:58But we have this saving consolation.
17:01The more difficult the struggle, the more glorious in the end will be our victory.
17:06Let's make that victory ours starting right here in Michigan with Abdul.
17:28Thank you very much.
17:36Thank you very much.
17:49Good evening, Farmington Hills!
17:53Oh my goodness.
18:08All right, y'all, let's remind them what we're about.
18:10Money out of?
18:11Money in your?
18:13Medicare for?
18:17Money in your pocket.
18:19Medicare for?
18:20So I know we have new friends here, so I'm going to teach you about another thing.
18:25Our whole thing is money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for?
18:32All right.
18:33We're going to do it one more time because I think there are some folks who are like,
18:36what are you saying?
18:37Money out of?
18:39Money in your pocket.
18:41Medicare for?
18:43There it is.
18:46It's good to have new friends.
18:49I'm able to be with you all.
18:51Again, thank you to our incredible Mayor, Teresa Rich.
18:54Thank you so much for your support.
18:55Thank you, Teresa.
19:12I'm so happy, so excited to be here with you all.
19:14I didn't grow up too far from here.
19:18Ten minutes up Orchard Lake.
19:23Another little left there on Brooklyn, and you're basically at my house.
19:29And so I'm honored to be back in Oakland County, honored to be back with all of you.
19:33My name is Abdullah Sayed.
19:35And with a name like mine, I knew I was never supposed to go for office.
19:38That was not part of my life's plan.
19:40I wanted to be a doctor.
19:42I wanted to be a doctor because I could go 15 hours to my family's native Egypt,
19:47or I could go 15 minutes from where we are right now.
19:52And either way, we cross a 10-year difference in life expectancy.
19:56It doesn't matter where you grow up.
19:59It doesn't matter what you or your parents do for work.
20:02It doesn't matter the color of your skin.
20:03You deserve a long, healthy life in these United States of America.
20:11Now, I went to medical school to learn how to heal.
20:16Right there, I got some really bad advice on my last day at the University of Michigan.
20:21Go blue.
20:23Hey, we could go green too as long as we don't go red.
20:27But also go blue.
20:30I was the valedictorian of my class,
20:33and I was selected to give the student commencement speech at the University,
20:37which was a real honor.
20:38Except for nobody went to go listen to me that day, including my own parents.
20:42They all went to go listen to the main speaker,
20:44a certain gentleman by the name of Bill Clinton.
20:47So I give my speech, President Clinton gives his speech,
20:50and he calls me out in his speech.
20:51He really liked the speech.
20:53And he comes back to me after the speech is over.
20:57And he looks at me, he does his Bill Clinton thing.
20:59Son, why are you going to medical school?
21:05Which, by the way, is not a question anybody asks you when you're going to medical school.
21:09And the first thing that came to my mind was,
21:10I'm brown and Muslim.
21:11That's what we do.
21:13But also, I love people and I love science.
21:14And this is how I want to serve.
21:16That's great, but you've got a gift for communicating.
21:18Maybe someday you're one for office.
21:21I said, that's really nice of you to say.
21:25But also, did you see my name?
21:29Abdul, just a half of it.
21:32There's a whole other part.
21:33And that's just the first one.
21:34There are two others after that.
21:36And they all got sounds that come out of parts of people's throats.
21:39Most people don't know they have.
21:41People like me don't get to run for office.
22:02So here's the thing about it.
22:04That was 2007.
22:06Y'all know what happened in 2008.
22:08Our state helped elect a guy named Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency.
22:16And it was the first time I ever saw myself in a politician.
22:21I was like, his dad immigrated from Africa.
22:26My dad immigrated from a different place, Africa.
22:30He had mixed parents.
22:31I was raised by my dad and my stepmom, Jackie,
22:34who's a daughter of the American Revolution from the middle of the state.
22:38He's got a funny name.
22:40I got a funny name.
22:42He's tall and skinny.
22:44I'm short and thick.
22:48Anyway, I went off to medical school to learn how to heal,
22:52only to realize that too often our health care system is not just not part of the solution.
22:56It's part of the problem.
22:59And I realized I was learning to ask and answer two questions.
23:03What's wrong and how can I help?
23:04And too often the answer to what was wrong had less to do with all the physiology.
23:08I've been studying a lot more to do with pathologies in our politics.
23:11The air we breathe, the water we drink,
23:13whether we can walk in the community without being the victim of somebody's violence.
23:16You can see a doctor if you get sick in the first place.
23:19And I realized I want to be part of solving those problems.
23:22So when we all graduated medical school, and never mind what you heard, I did graduate medical school.
23:29Doesn't that make you a doctor?
23:32I mean, I did a PhD too, but they don't want to count either of them.
23:39I realized I wanted to be a part of solving those society problems.
23:42So I went into public health, got the opportunity to rebuild Detroit's health department after it was shut down,
23:47when the state came through and forced it into emergency management.
23:52Shut down a 185-year-old health department in a state with a higher infant mortality rate than my father's
23:57native Egypt.
23:59Got to leave Wayne County's Department of Health, Human, and Veteran Services.
24:03Across our work, we thought outside the box about what public health was supposed to do and be.
24:08We built a program when we found that 30% of our kids would be tested positive for needing glasses,
24:14only to test positive again next year.
24:17Meaning we knew they needed them, but never got a pair.
24:20So we put optometrists on vans outside of schools, so kids could get an immediate optometric exam,
24:27and we could deliver the glasses they needed, one pair to school and one pair to their home.
24:32That program's done 50,000 pairs of glasses across the state of Michigan.
24:36We brought it here in the first place.
24:40We took on some of the biggest corporate polluters in our state.
24:45Marathon Petroleum wanted to raise their emissions of sulfur dioxide.
24:48We were able to invest their own money to reduce emissions when they had wanted to increase them.
24:54After every school, daycare, and headstart, tested for lead in the water.
24:58Now, we put Narcan in a hundred different locations, built programs to provide free health insurance for new small businesses.
25:14When we found that our county ranked number eight for medical debt nationwide,
25:18we realized we could eliminate it for a penny on the dollar.
25:20Set aside $7 million to erase up to $700 million of medical debt for 300,000 families.
25:32Now, I'm never going to forget that day, sitting in my office,
25:36when this administration, Donald Trump and his goons, decided to freeze federal funds.
25:41Y'all remember that?
25:43And I'm sitting there, trying to figure out how to make sure WIC checks go out next week.
25:48How to make sure our federally qualified health centers don't get shut down.
25:51How to make sure that vaccines keep going in arms.
25:54When I get a notification on my phone that after his two terms in the U.S. Senate,
25:59our current Senator Gary Peters is retiring and not seeking re-election.
26:05And I...
26:10There's the fight for the public's health now.
26:15I mean, if I were to be elected, I'd be the first Democratic doctor elected to the U.S. Senate
26:20since 1969.
26:23First ever public health official elected to the U.S. Senate.
26:26And if you've ever wondered why RFK Jr. runs public health for this country,
26:29I think we all could agree we probably need a public health senator right about now.
26:38But y'all know, this is not my first rodeo.
26:43I ran for governor back in 2018.
26:45Look, thank you, appreciate you.
26:50Look, I had bad advice from a former president.
26:53I said, you know what, I'm going to go big or go home.
26:55I went big, I went home.
27:00But I said something in that race folks weren't quite ready to hear,
27:03which is that Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics.
27:06He's just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics.
27:10The disease
27:13is the way we allow big corporations and billionaires
27:17and special interests to buy and sell politicians
27:19in ways that leave them rigging the system against us.
27:21We pay more for all we have to buy,
27:24get paid less for all
27:27the work we do
27:28and watch as our tax dollars get spent on stupid things like war
27:31rather than invested in schools
27:33and health care and infrastructure here at home.
27:37So this campaign
27:40has three goals
27:41and you all already know what they are.
27:42We want money out of
27:44money in your
27:46Medicare for
27:47and that is exactly
27:49the goal we set off to accomplish
27:51back in April of 2025.
27:54Started in rooms of five people
27:56and then 50 people
27:56and then 500 people
27:57and now 800 people
27:58in Farmington Hills.
28:05But we were having the conversations
28:07that are at the core of democracy.
28:08Who are we and who do we want to be?
28:11Those are the two questions
28:13we all ask ourselves.
28:14Who are we?
28:15Who do we want to be?
28:17This campaign has taken us all over the state.
28:20530 public events
28:21and counting 110 different cities.
28:23No matter where I go
28:24people say the same thing
28:25it just shouldn't be this hard.
28:27Shouldn't be this hard to afford your groceries.
28:29Shouldn't be this hard to pay your rent.
28:30Shouldn't be this hard
28:31in the richest most powerful country in the world
28:33to see a doctor.
28:35Shouldn't be this hard
28:36to pay your taxes
28:37and know that that money
28:38is not going to be used
28:39to destroy somebody else
28:40or their kids
28:41and be spent here
28:42to invest in you and your own.
28:46Shouldn't be this hard.
28:47And we've got an opportunity
28:49in this race
28:49to go and win the future
28:51that we need and deserve.
28:53To answer that question
28:54who are we
28:55and who do we want to be
28:55and the contrast
28:56couldn't be clear.
28:58Mike Rogers is a guy
29:00who spent 14 years in Congress.
29:02Took 5 million dollars
29:05from corporations
29:06to run his campaigns.
29:08A million alone
29:09from the pharmaceutical industry.
29:12voted 19 times
29:14to raise prescription drug prices.
29:16ARC directed legislation
29:17to put opioids
29:19further into our streets
29:20as we knew
29:21that we were already
29:22facing an epidemic.
29:24And that's just
29:25on the healthcare front.
29:28Contrast that
29:29with a doctor
29:30who rebuilt
29:30a health department
29:31eliminated up to
29:32700 million dollars
29:33in medical debt
29:33and put Narcan
29:34in 100 locations for free.
29:41This is a guy
29:42who has taken money
29:45put it into politics
29:46to take money
29:47out our pockets.
29:48If he had his drugs
29:49he'd have Medicare for none.
29:51We're trying to get
29:53money out of politics
29:54put money in your pocket
29:55and pass Medicare for all.
29:56The contrast
29:57couldn't be clearer.
29:58And I just want to point
29:59to two issues right now
29:59that we're dealing with.
30:01Number one
30:03as hard as he tries
30:05as hard as he tries
30:06this guy wants to pretend
30:08like he never met
30:09Donald Trump.
30:11I don't know who that is.
30:12Who's that?
30:14And Donald Trump
30:16because he can't resist
30:17the red meat
30:18can't seem to keep
30:19my name out of his mouth.
30:23Habibi
30:23if you can't say the name
30:24don't say the name.
30:32Abdul
30:33Abdul
30:36Why do you want to say it
30:37like that man?
30:37That's creepy.
30:39Abdul
30:41Holds on to the L
30:41a little too long.
30:43Oh, Abdul
30:49You know
30:50Natalie's going to show him
30:51this clip
30:51and he's going to be so mad.
31:01Abdul
31:05Try Abdul
31:06Try Abdul
31:12Trump can't help
31:14but make this
31:15about him.
31:16He tries to make
31:16everything about him.
31:17And Mike Rogers
31:18out here being like
31:19no, it's about me.
31:20I'm like
31:20nothing's ever been about you.
31:23Bro
31:25nothing has ever been
31:26about you.
31:27But
31:28I do want to talk
31:29talk about him
31:32because
31:33for a long time
31:35he opposed
31:35Donald Trump.
31:36You probably saw him
31:37on CNN.
31:38He was out there
31:39talking about how bad
31:40Donald Trump was
31:41and how dangerous
31:42Donald Trump was
31:42and then all of a sudden
31:43his life in Florida
31:44his two yachts
31:45weren't enough
31:46and he said
31:46you know maybe
31:47I can get
31:47while the getting's good
31:48I'm going to move
31:49back to Michigan.
31:51Maybe I get a third yacht
31:52if I do enough
31:54bootlicking
31:54for some corporation
31:55maybe I'll get there too.
31:56So he decides
31:57to run for U.S. Senate
31:58and all of a sudden
31:59the story changes.
32:02Donald Trump
32:03could do no wrong.
32:05Donald Trump
32:05had the 2020 election
32:07stolen from him.
32:10Donald Trump
32:11never seen
32:12a better leader.
32:13Just a master class.
32:15You know what he said?
32:16He said
32:17that Canadian tariffs
32:18were a master class.
32:19Now listen
32:20we're from Michigan
32:21we know Canadians.
32:22Canadians are the only
32:23people in the world
32:24who preemptively
32:25apologize
32:26for not having done anything.
32:32You've got to be
32:32some kind of punk
32:34to pick up
32:34trade war
32:35with Canadians.
32:36I already apologized.
32:40And here we are
32:41but the thing about it
32:41is no laughing matter.
32:43$3,200
32:43is what we already pay
32:45because
32:46of the tariffs.
32:47And now
32:47he's slapping
32:48another 50%
32:50tariff
32:50on top of that.
32:51Who do you think
32:52pays for a tariff?
32:53Now Donald Trump
32:54doesn't understand economics.
32:55Again he
32:56you know
32:57you get money
32:58from daddy
32:59become a nepo baby
33:00and then all of a sudden
33:00you think you're
33:01some kind of like
33:01you know
33:02master businessman.
33:04But
33:05here's how a tariff works.
33:07When you slap a tariff
33:08we pay for it.
33:10We pay for it.
33:11And there's no coherence
33:12to this tariff.
33:14There are a set of tariffs
33:15I could
33:15you know
33:15understand
33:16okay you want to
33:17protect American jobs
33:18you want to protect
33:19American manufacturing
33:20alright
33:20I could get down
33:21with those tariffs.
33:22These tariffs
33:23are simply about his ego.
33:25And he wants us
33:27to have to pay for them.
33:30And Mike Rogers
33:31is going to do nothing
33:33but rubber stamp it.
33:35He literally
33:36wants to rubber stamp
33:38a policy
33:39that he knows
33:40makes no sense
33:42to kowtow to the ego
33:44of Donald Trump.
33:46That's where we are
33:47right now.
33:48And the thing about
33:49Mike Rogers
33:50which makes him
33:52so much more
33:53frustrating
33:54is that he knows
33:54better.
33:56So
33:57is one thing
33:58to be an idiot
33:59is another entirely
34:01to be
34:03so
34:06small
34:06as a human being
34:08as to know
34:09the other person
34:10is an idiot
34:10and do what they want
34:11anyway
34:12because all you want
34:13is power.
34:22there's being dumb
34:23and then there's
34:24being cowardly
34:26and I can't blame
34:27somebody for being dumb
34:28like Donald Trump
34:29was born with
34:29what he had
34:30you know what I mean
34:30like you know
34:33but cowardice
34:35cowardice
34:36is unforgivable.
34:38Now we challenge
34:39him to five debates
34:41how many do you
34:41think he's agreed to?
34:43He's agreed to one.
34:46Those four debates
34:47that's cowardice
34:48you hear me?
34:49Cowardice.
34:51Anytime
34:52anywhere
34:52on any issue
34:53in any moment
34:54you name it
34:55I'm happy to debate you.
34:57I'll debate you
34:57in your house
34:58in Florida
34:58if you want to.
35:14we've got a clear
35:15opportunity
35:16in November
35:19the only reason
35:21that Donald Trump
35:22and J.D. Vance
35:23and all of these folks
35:24are coming after me
35:25is because
35:26they want to deny you
35:28and I'm going to finish here
35:29I'm so proud
35:31to be from Michigan
35:31born and raised
35:38and they'll say
35:40Abdul can't win
35:41his name is Abdul
35:43his whole name is
35:44Abdul Rahman Mohammed
35:45the Sayyid
35:45how?
35:47in the state
35:47that elected
35:48Barack Hussein Obama
35:52they're going to try
35:53and paint me
35:55as being some
35:55kind of radical
35:57not from here
35:58you heard it
35:58dangerous
36:00I mean if you're
36:00Donald Trump
36:01I am dangerous
36:04and
36:06when they say
36:07I can't win
36:07it doesn't bother me
36:09because it's actually
36:10not about me
36:11I've been a guy
36:12named Abdul
36:12in Michigan
36:13almost my whole life
36:14I'd say I'm pretty good
36:15at being an Abdul
36:16in Michigan
36:17and as an Abdul
36:18in Michigan
36:19I've gotten to know
36:21this state
36:21I've traveled the state
36:22twice in campaigns
36:25when they say
36:26I can't win
36:27they're not talking
36:28about me
36:29they're talking about you
36:30and that's the part
36:31that pisses me off
36:33because I remember
36:34being a junior
36:35in high school
36:37on 9-11
36:38I remember that
36:40emotion
36:41of watching
36:42our country
36:42be attacked
36:44and then
36:45having to deal
36:46with the fact
36:47that people
36:47were blaming
36:48me for it
36:50I was a junior
36:51in high school
36:52in my high school
36:52class
36:54and
36:56the very next year
36:57my classmates
36:58my teammates
36:59elected me captain
37:01of their high school
37:01football team
37:03and lacrosse team
37:05and wrestling team
37:08and those kids
37:08didn't look like me
37:11they didn't pray
37:12like I do
37:14they were asking
37:14who'd be a good
37:15leader for our team
37:16and I'm so honored
37:17for their support
37:19Michiganders are
37:20good people
37:20we're earnest
37:22and we expect
37:23the best out of
37:24everybody
37:24and we're gritty
37:26and we're willing
37:27to work hard
37:28for what we have
37:30what we've been
37:30watching is our
37:31politics have
37:32exploited us
37:33telling us that
37:33only some can have
37:35and others can't
37:36pitting us
37:37against each other
37:38telling us what
37:38we cannot have
37:39and should not
37:40fight for
37:41and the part of
37:42this that makes
37:43me upset
37:43is that
37:44when they lie
37:45on us
37:45and tell us
37:46that somebody
37:47like me can't
37:48win
37:48I want to show
37:49them the
37:50Michigan I know
37:51and love
37:51I want to show
37:52them the big
37:53hearted and
37:54open minded
37:54Michigan I know
37:56I want to show
37:57them all of the
37:58different communities
37:59who've welcomed us
38:00into their
38:01heart and home
38:02to have conversations
38:04about who we are
38:05and who we want
38:06to be
38:06people don't care
38:07how you pray
38:07they care what you
38:09pray for
38:09and what you hope
38:10for
38:10they don't care
38:11what your name is
38:12they care if you
38:13pray for their name
38:14that's Michigan
38:15that's the Michigan
38:16I know
38:16that's the Michigan
38:17I believe in
38:18and whatever
38:18Jake Lang
38:19and Donald Trump
38:20and Mike Rogers
38:22want us to think
38:22we are bigger than
38:24being torn apart
38:25by small people
38:26with small ideas
38:26and small visions
38:27for what Michigan is
38:36so
38:37Farrington Hills
38:38we got a choice
38:39on November 3rd
38:40and we got a choice
38:41every single day
38:42until November 3rd
38:44and that choice
38:45is about putting
38:46ourselves in the heart
38:47of our democracy
38:49they want to tell us
38:50that we cannot have
38:52union rights
38:52but when they come
38:53for our union rights
38:54we won't back down
38:57when they come
38:59for Medicaid
38:59and Social Security
39:01and Medicare
39:02and ACA
39:04we won't back down
39:06when they come
39:08for our democratic rights
39:09and our rights
39:10to say what we believe
39:11we won't back down
39:14when they come
39:15for our ability
39:17to join together
39:18beyond our differences
39:19to build something
39:20that's greater
39:20than the sum
39:21of its parts
39:21we won't back down
39:24when they come
39:25for our public schools
39:26and our public school teachers
39:27we won't back down
39:30and when they come
39:31for us
39:32we will stand together
39:33we won't back down
39:36we won't back down
39:37today
39:37we won't back down
39:38tomorrow
39:38we won't back down
39:40until November 3rd
39:41we're going to build
39:42a majority
39:42that takes our Senate back
40:00first day we can vote
40:02is September 24th
40:03don't wait until the 3rd
40:07he's reminded us
40:08we got early
40:09after the ballot
40:10September 24th
40:13friends
40:14my name is
40:15Abdul Al-Sayed
40:16and I hope I can earn
40:18your support
40:18thank you so much
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