Abdul El-Sayed stops to answer a reporter's question in Michigan. He says he has never solicited a corporate PAC check, then lists what he says Mike Rogers took: $64,000 from DTE and a million dollars each from Big Pharma and insurance companies. He accuses Rogers of using "scary sounding words" to distract, and ties him to the war in Iran, the tariff war and votes on prescription drug prices.
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- other - post-debate press gaggle, Michigan Senate race
- Original footage
- Project America | News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 43 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
Unlike Mike Rogers, I don't ask big corporations to pay for my campaigns. I have never solicited a corporate pack check. I didn't take $64 ,000 from DTE. I didn't take a million dollars from Big Pharma. I didn't take a million dollars from insurance companies. Mike did that. And so he would rather say scary sounding words in association with my name to distract us from the way our politics is transacted. Corporations buy off politicians like him so that they turn around and do their bidding and then we all pay the price The war in Iran. We're paying the price the tariff war. We're paying the price His votes to keep prescription drug prices would definitely pay the price and we all pay the price because of their small politics So look, you know at the end of day
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.