At a campaign event in his Michigan Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed answers JD Vance. He says he was born in America and saw what his life could have been otherwise, that America doesn't discriminate over who you love, how you pray or your skin color, and that a war "we don't need to fight" is raising gas and grocery prices.
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- rally - Abdul El-Sayed campaign event, Michigan Senate race (event not named)
- Original footage
- The Economic Times · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 164 on Instagram
Read the transcript
I got a front row seat to what my life might have been had I not been born in America. So don't lecture me about America. I know America. In America we don't discriminate against people for who they love, how they identify, how they pray, the color of their skin. So don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me about America. They want you to fear my name, they want you to fear my faith, but I know that there is a lot of fear right now. And that is the fear that people hold deep in their hearts when they think about just how hard it is to survive the next month. My name and my faith are not nearly as scary as the fact that we are fighting a war we don't need to fight that's raising our gas prices and our grocery prices.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.