00:02Kamala Harris is back on the campaign trail, and she started in Michigan.
00:06The former vice president made her first major campaign stop of the midterms Tuesday, appearing
00:12with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit.
00:15The two sat down for a roundtable on black maternal health, and Harris made a direct
00:20pitch for El-Sayed.
00:22His will be a voice, Abdul's, that is a voice representing the people of this state,
00:30and it will be a national voice.
00:31Harris has more midterm stops planned, including Nevada, California, and Georgia.
00:36But not every Democrat has wanted her on the trail.
00:40The New York Times reports Senate candidates in Alaska, Iowa, and Kansas have publicly said
00:45they don't want her campaigning with them.
00:47El-Sayed does, and the two have had some real differences, especially over Gaza.
00:54El-Sayed has been a vocal critic of U.S. military support for Israel.
00:59Harris was part of the Biden administration that faced intense pushback over its Gaza policy,
01:04particularly in Michigan, which is home to a large Arab American community.
01:09My disagreements with the then vice president's positions on Gaza are clear, and I still disagree
01:15with the position on which she ran in 2024.
01:18So the reality of it is that we have a big party.
01:21There are going to be issues on which there are disagreements in the party, and there's
01:24a lot of issues on which there are agreements.
01:26So what does it look like to bring people together around the issues on which we agree?
01:30That's what a mature politics looks like.
01:32And we can, you know, have our positions, our differences.
01:36I endorsed Vice President Harris for president, and I endorsed her because I understood that
01:40Donald Trump would be worse.
01:41El-Sayed is now trying to bring Democrats together after a divisive primary.
01:47He faces Republican Mike Rogers in November for the open seat, being vacated by Democratic
01:52Senator Gary Peters.
01:54Democrats need to hold Michigan and pick up at least four Republican-held seats to take
01:59control of the Senate.
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