In an NBC News Meet the Press interview, Abdul El-Sayed says people who voted for Trump two or three times tell him they're voting for him, citing health care and "America first." He says the tariff war with Canada and the war in Iran are being paid for "in our gas" and "in our groceries."
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- interview - NBC News Meet the Press, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
- Original footage
- NBC News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 49 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 163 on Instagram
Read the transcript
Do you think that you have and that you will win over some Trump voters? I know that we will. I mean, everywhere I go, I get somebody who comes up to me and says, look, I voted for Trump two or three times and I'm voting for you. And I ask why. They say it's because you really want me to have health care. I really want them to have health care. It's because you really are America first. I really am America first. I want our tax dollars spent here, not dropping bombs on other people over there. We shouldn't be fighting these wars whether it's a tariff war in Canada or a hot war in Iran They're costing us five thousand six hundred dollars for this ridiculous tariff war with Canada $1 ,600 and counting for this Iran war. We're paying for it in our gas. We're paying for it in our groceries We're paying for it in our souls in the sense that people look up and say like who's actually fighting for me And I think the reason this campaign is resonating is because we're offering that people coming
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.