Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan, says in a 60 Minutes extended interview that outside spending against him will reach a third of a billion dollars by the time the race is done. He says he doesn't take corporate money, and that corporate and dark money going to either Republicans or Democrats is the problem.
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- interview - 60 Minutes extended interview with Ross Douthat, Wayne State Univers
- Original footage
- 60 Minutes · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 43 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
By the time this is done, right, all of the outside spending will have reached a third of a billion dollars just to beat me in a campaign. Why? Well, because I'm willing to tell you what I think. Because I'm willing not to play that game. I don't take money from corporations. I want to stand up to them. I want to fight for working people. So that's what changes. It's the ability to actually have a voice in the United States Senate that says, look, whether it's corporate money and dark money going to Republicans or Democrats, that's the problem. I think we need to have a conversation about who we are and who we want to be. That's the kind of political movement that we're building here in Michigan. And God willing, that's the kind of political movement we will have because that's what our framers intended this to be. Government of, by and for the people, not of, by and for corporations, billionaires and special interests.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.