00:00Hello, Michigan. Election Day is here, and your vote and your voice have never mattered more.
00:06This is Robert De Niro proudly supporting Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan's next United States
00:12Senator. Abdul wants to get the money out of politics, put money back in your pocket,
00:18and pass Medicare for all. I believe in him, and I believe in what he's fighting for.
00:24Go vote. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Let's go, Michigan.
00:30Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? Good to meet you.
00:38Uncle Sam, how are you? I love it.
00:56Obviously, if you win tonight, you would make history as the first Muslim senator. What would that
01:01mean to you? How are you reflecting on that? And then secondly, if you don't win, and I know you're
01:07going to tell me failure is not an option, but if things don't go in your favor, do you blame
01:11Haley
01:12Stevens? Look, at the end of the day, I'm not thinking about Haley Stevens. My key focus, the
01:17reason I set out in this campaign in April of 2025 is to get money out of politics, put money
01:22in your
01:22pocket, pass Medicare for all. That is the work that I aim to accomplish in the United States Senate.
01:26I feel really good about where we are right now, but nothing is a foregone conclusion. It's with the
01:30voters. We finished our campaign up yesterday. We're here just to talk to voters and encourage
01:37people to get out and vote. But in the end, this is about what Michigan wants in its politics. I'm
01:44not running to be the first anything. I'm running to be the next senator for Michigan. But I hope what
01:49it will say is that America is big enough. The thing that I take real seriously is that a lot
01:53of
01:53kids have had to watch their president demonize somebody as a function of their name or the way
02:00they pray. And all of us have been told we're not quite enough in the past. And to watch a
02:05president
02:05of the United States do that is really quite sad. But my argument has always been that America is a
02:09big place with big ideas. And there's always some small minded people want to make America small like
02:13them. But America is a lot bigger than that. And I hope that today's outcome is a demonstration of
02:18just how big America is. And for all those kids who watched that they can look back at
02:23this and say, yeah, America is big enough for me, too.
02:27Are you bracing for the results to be challenged? And if so, what do those preparations look like?
02:32Well, they've already shown that they don't have respect for democratic outcomes. We've seen that
02:37in 2020. We saw that in the questioning that my own opponent had about his 2024 outcomes by losing
02:44illicit locket. So, yes, we're bracing for all outcomes, but we're hoping that this outcome is
02:49decisive in the way that it can't be challenged by somebody who has bad faith opinions about democracy.
02:56He cited you specifically as someone who's made this a political liability. Do you see this as vindication
03:01of your position? And do you believe it's genuine or is it more of an election day that we're bringing?
03:06Even a broken clock can be right twice a day. Look at that.
03:24I couldn't bring you, Abdul. I love you, Abdul. I love you, Abdul. I love you.
03:28I love you, Abdul. I love you.
