In a speech after the election, Abdul El-Sayed, named by the source as Michigan's US Senator-elect, says opponents wanted the race to be a referendum on him, his name and his faith. He answers that none of that is why people can't afford gas, groceries, rent or a doctor. "It is their policies that are doing that." He says he told families not to stop reading the story in the middle, and wanted Michiganders to prove "just how big Michigan is."
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- post-election speech - CONNECT Empowerment Summit, Chantilly, Virginia
- Original footage
- DawnNews English · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 51 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
They wanted to make this a referendum on me and my name and my faith, but me and my name and my faith are not the reason people can't afford their gas. It's not the reason people can't afford their groceries. It's not the reason people can't afford their rent. It's not the reason people can't see a doctor. I mean chances are if they're seeing a doctor they might actually have my name in my face. It is their policies that are doing that, but they did not want to talk about policy and I'd have families come up to me and say how do we explain this to our kids and I would tell them just don't forget that the story is not over you don't stop reading the story in the middle at the point where the protagonist is about to get chased down you keep reading until the end and it was so important to me that Michiganders proved to just how big Michigan is.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.