AOC & El-Sayed DROP BOMBSHELL On Trump’s $5,000 Checks, Fiery Michigan Speech EXPOSES Trump

Michigan, right now, our groceries are through the roof, our housing is unaffordable, our healthcare is barely able, is barely something that any of us can cover. If we want to change this country, we have to make different choices. And when Abdul El-Sayed walks into the United States Senate, the drug companies and the corporate lobbyists won't have a claim on him. He will be one of very few who doesn't take their money. And the people of Michigan are the people who will have his direct attention. You know, there's a lot of people that said there's no way we can get over a thousand people rallying out in northern Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed. And here you are at capacity. This place is packed to the gills. I cannot thank each and every one of you enough. It is so wonderful to be here with you all tonight and what a sight to see so many people who care about this state out here on a Thursday night, mind you. It's a school night. But Marquette, we know for too many families something isn't right right now grocery bills keep climbing rents and mortgages keep rising and people are working harder than ever only to fall further and further behind you don't need a medical degree to recognize the symptoms of a broken economy michigan corruption is making this country sick and when you're sick who do you call a doctor not a drug company and certainly not a politician paid by them and Michigan we have had enough of the wrong medicine and that is why it is time to elect Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to the United States Senate you all know better than anyone that Abdul is a son of Michigan. He grew up here. He's a second-generation union member and he spent his career fighting for the people of this state. As a public health leader in Wayne County, Abdul saw firsthand what was making Michigan families fall behind. Sometimes it was an unexpected injury or an illness, but far too often It was actually the bill that came afterward. There are too many families that are doing everything right. When they can, they go to the doctor, we get a checkup, treatment, trying to get well, only to find ourselves buried under medical debt that destroys our credit and drains our savings. And instead of taking his prestigious education and going somewhere else, Abdul decided to come back home. and do something about it in fact Abdul has helped wipe out approximately 27 million dollars in medical debt for 46,000 Michiganders because that's who Abdul is public service isn't something that he discovered when he decided to run for office it's what he's devoted his life to our values to our community and to one another but Mike Rogers he has spent his life making health care more expensive for everyday Americans. And now he's trying to say a bunch of flashy things on television to get you to forget what he has actually done. Mike Rogers, we must remember, has already spent 14 years in Congress. That's 14 years with a vote, 14 years with the power to do something, and what his record actually shows is 14 years of saying one thing to Michiganders and turning around and doing another thing in Washington. So let's make it plain. When working families needed relief from soaring prescription drug prices, Mike Rogers voted no to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors. Mike Rogers opposed the Affordable Care Act, and then after he opposed it, he voted five times to repeal it. Perhaps the most astonishing part of his record is what he did when it came to children. Mike Rogers voted 19 times against measures to fund or expand health insurance for low-income kids. 19 times. Now, I can understand disagreeing about policy. I can understand having differences about how we pay for things. But 19 votes against health insurance for poor kids? At some point, Michigan, you've got to wonder what it would take to get this man to vote yes. Many of you know, as many of you know, I'm a New Yorker. We had to fight. Oh, we've got some New Yorkers here. We had to fight tooth and nail for the 9-11 Victims' Compensation Fund for first responders. This is the kind of thing that when you show up to Washington feels like it should be the easiest vote in the world. And for some reason, it was so hard to get Congress to agree that our heroes and first responders on 9-11 should have their health insurance due and their health care to toxic exposure covered. But Mike Rogers voted against that, too. Our seniors, our kids, our first responders, people who had every reason to expect their government to work for them. And Mike Rogers kept finding reasons to say no. But there was one group that never seemed to have much trouble getting his attention. And that was the pharmaceutical industry. You see, over the course of his career, Mike Rogers received a steady stream of campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies and interests. And while those checks were coming into his campaign coffers, he used his power in Congress. Instead of voting to expand health insurance to kids, he voted to loosen access to opioids, even as those drugs were devastating communities across Michigan. And then, after 14 years in Washington, once he left, what did he decide to do? He decided to take his work and advise the very types of corporations that were in this revolving door in Washington. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to see a pattern here. And when seniors needed cheaper prescriptions, Rogers said no. When families needed health coverage, Mike Rogers said no. When children needed insurance in Michigan, Mike Rogers said no. But when the drug companies came a-calling, somehow the door was wide open. And now this same man is looking straight into a television camera, wondering aloud why Americans are paying so much for prescription drugs. Mike, you know the answer, because you voted for it. And that's what makes this election so important. Michigan has a choice between two very different records. Two very different people. Because in life, it's not about what you say, it's about what you do. And it's especially about what you do when no one's watching. I was watching, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was getting glasses for kids. No one was watching. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was working for the people of Michigan. When no one was watching, Abdul El-Sayed was doing the right thing and sacrificing himself for the good of the many. But when no one was looking, Mike Rogers was taking checks from pharmaceutical interests. When no one was watching, he went to go work for them in the revolving door after he left Congress. Michigan, right now, our groceries are through the roof. Our housing is unaffordable. Our health care is barely able, is barely something that any of us can cover. If we want to change this country, we have to make different choices. And when Abdul El-Sayed walks into the United States, the drug companies and the corporate lobbyists won't have a claim on him. He will be one of very few who doesn't take their money. And the people of Michigan are the people who will have his direct attention. And that's exactly how it ought to be. Because Michigan has always understood something about power. That working people have to come together across race, religion, and difference in order for us to claim our fair share. Michigan helped build the American middle class. And that's the same thing we need today. when families are fighting to afford a home, raise their children, see a doctor, and retire with dignity. At the heart of every one of these fights is a simple question. Who does our government work for? And it should be us. And rather that's the question Abdul El-Sayed is ready to answer in Washington. And it's a fight that Michigan knows how to win. Because every great victory for working people began with somebody deciding things, deciding that things didn't have to stay the way that they were. I was having dinner last night in Marquette, and this group of women walked up to me, and they were telling me about something that they had done out here in Marquette. They saw what happened after the Dobbs decision came down, and women across the country started losing access to reproductive health care. We've got women across the country, we've got people and Americans across the country that are in severe distress. People, women, mothers, almost brought to the brink of death because of an abortion or a pregnancy or a miscarriage gone wrong. And what they decided was that they weren't going to wait for anyone to save them. They wanted to start an urgent care clinic here in Marquette. And they wanted to provide reproductive care for pregnant women here as part of the urgent care clinic. They wanted to not just say that reproductive care is health care. They wanted to make reproductive health care regular health care like anybody else. And so they opened up this clinic. They said, how are we going to do this? And one woman raised her hand and she said, well, I'm not a doctor, but I can help raise some funds for it. And another woman raised her hand, and she said, well, I am a doctor, and I can try to see how we can put this together. And I sat down at this table with this group of eight women who had opened one of the first urgent care clinics in America, right here in Marquette, providing care for women. And then these women out here in Marquette, they decided to go to a conference, and now two colleges and universities in different cities across the country, and UC San Francisco and Brown said, we're going to pick up this model, too. Michigan, this work is the actual revolutionary work that we are talking about. And the power of this country, the power of this country and what it means for us as a democracy is that the power will always be with the people. And my job in the House, hopefully soon Abdul's job in the Senate, is to help you do your thing. To help you lead your communities. To help you build your healthcare clinics and centers. To help you provide for your families. To help you cover and create jobs in small businesses across the country. Our job is to help working people have a fair shake. And our job is to work for you. But Michigan, in order to do that, you got to hire us. And so what we have to do in the next 19 or so days is that we have to talk to every friend, every family member, every co-worker that we know and say, I'm cool with Abdul. They want to make this man look very big and scary on television because what they think and what they're betting on is that if they can make you scared of him, then that means you won't listen to him. Because if people actually listen to him, they would hear someone that says, we need to get big money out of politics. If they listen to him, they'll hear a man saying the minimum wage should be a living wage in America. They know people listen to him. They'll hear a man that will forcefully say health care should be a human right afforded to every American and guaranteed for all. If working people of all backgrounds here in Michigan hear a man who understands that our problems are not of left and right, but of top and bottom, if people start listening to him, that they might like what they hear, and they don't want that to happen. And the only person that can break through fear is a person that somebody knows, their friends, their mom, their co-worker, their cousin, their neighbor. And so what we have to do and what I am asking all of us here today is to talk to your friends and your family, even the ones that you think you agree with. Make sure they cast their ballot. Life is busy. People forget things. Make sure that they have a ride to the poll site if they want to cast their ballot in person. Make sure that they remember to send in their ballot if they're able to mail it in. But that is what our task is for the next 19 days is to is to reach out to people that, you know, and turn out this vote, because if Michigan elects a doctor in response to the largest Republican cut in health care to the country, we will change the future of America. So that's what we have to do between now and November 3rd. Knock those doors. Make those calls. Talk to your co-workers because this is your state, this is your government, and this is your chance to decide who gets to speak for you in the United States Senate. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the One India app now.