Abdul El-Sayed, interviewed on ABC News' All Access with Linsey Davis: Race to November, is asked about Vance saying he is "evil." He says Republicans point to his name and faith to distract from gas, grocery and doctor costs, and calls the tariff war "a vanity project on the part of Donald Trump that we all have to pay for."
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- interview - ABC News, All Access with Linsey Davis: Race to November
- Original footage
- ABC News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 51 seconds, unedited within the cut
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- 134 on Instagram
Read the transcript
Vance, has said that you're evil. Why do you think that Republicans are really using you to attack the whole Democratic Party? I think we all well know why they're doing it. My name's Abdul. I'm Muslim. They think they can point to my name and my faith and distract us from the fact that we can't afford our gas and we can't afford our groceries and that we can't see a doctor in the richest, the world. They think they can distract us from the idiocy of a war we have no business fighting. They think they can distract us from a tariff war that's a vanity project on the part of Donald Trump that we all have to pay for. My name and my faith are not the reason people can't afford their gas, not the reason people can't afford their groceries, not the reason people can't see a doctor. And so they're going to try and distract because that's all they have. And they think that they can keep pointing at me and win political points with their base.
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