“ANSWER FOR EPSTEIN & 2020 ELECTION WIN!” Abdul El-Sayed Dares Trump to Take a Lie Detector Test

I'll go through a metal detector if you'll sit for a lie detector. Simple. I got nothing to hide. You've got so much to hide. My first question, Epstein. Second question, did you win the 2020 election? I got to thank a few people here. Just to the Western Michigan University Miller Auditorium staff, can we give them a round of applause? Our staff, our security, keeping us safe. Thank you so much. Our union sisters and brothers, we got UFCW Local 951. We've got our incredible teachers and paraprofessionals at the MEA, and we've got our fighting sisters and brothers of the UAW. I want to say a special thank you to Commissioner Jen Strebs, our State Representative Julie Rogers, State Rep Dr. Matt Longjohn, our emcee and organizer for the day, James Gasper, and then you heard from some of our incredible speakers, Patrick Cole, an MDP organizer, the National Director for the Working Families Party, Maurice Mitchell. Your Vice Mayor, Drew Duncan, Commissioner Montez Morales, President of the National Nurses United, Jamie Brown, and of course, our incredible, my soon-to-be colleague, Senator Alyssa Slotkin. She knows a thing or two about sending Mike Rogers back to Florida. And I'm Abdul El-Sayed, and I'm your candidate for U.S. Senate, because y'all, it just shouldn't be this hard. Shouldn't be this hard in the richest, most powerful country in the world to afford a tank of gas. Shouldn't be this hard to buy a second bag of groceries. Shouldn't be this hard to see a doctor. And it shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you and your kids rather than dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids. It shouldn't be this hard. Now, Kalamazoo, I never set out to be a politician. That was not part of my life's plan. All right, my folks gave me an 11-letter first name. Got sounds that come out of parts of people's throats they don't know they have. I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted to be a doctor because I could go 15 hours to my family's native Egypt, or 15 minutes from where I grew up. And either way, I'd cross 10 years difference in life expectancy. And it shouldn't matter the color of your skin, shouldn't matter where you grow up, shouldn't matter what you or your parents do for work. You deserve a long, healthy life in the United States of America. Isn't that right, President Brown? Now, I went to medical school to learn how to heal, only to realize that our healthcare system is more often too interested in billing than healing. So I went into public health, got to rebuild Detroit's health department, got to lead Wayne County's Department of Health, Human, and Veteran Services. We thought outside the box about what public health could be. We put glasses on kids' faces for free, 16,000 pairs, for kids who otherwise wouldn't get a pair of glasses. Took on some of the biggest corporate polluters in our state. We forced Marathon Petroleum to invest $10 million of their own money to reduce emissions when they had applied to increase them. After Flint, we had every school, daycare, and Head Start tested for lead in the water. 68 schools we tested, 19 of them tested positive. In Wayne County, we put Narcan in vending machines for free in 100 different locations. We built a program to provide free health insurance for new small businesses. And when we found out that our county ranked number eight for medical debt nationwide, we set aside $7 million to erase up to $700 million in medical debt for 300,000 families. But I'm never going to forget that day sitting in my office. Nearly two years ago, feels like 10 years ago now, when this administration froze federal funds. Y'all remember that? I'm trying to get one more round of WIC checks out to moms and babies so they can eat for a few more weeks. Trying to make sure that our community health centers don't get shut down. When I get a notification on my phone that after his two terms in the United States Senate, our current Senator Gary Peters is not seeking re-election. There's going to be an open U.S. Senate seat. And I had to ask myself, where is the fight for the public's health now? Because if I were to be elected, I'd be the first Democratic doctor elected to the U.S. Senate in nearly 60 years. I'd be the first ever public health official elected to the United States Senate. And if you've ever wondered why RFK Jr. runs public health in this country, I think we all could agree we probably need a public health senator right about now. Now, you might have seen the news. I love you back. RFK Jr. was in town this week. And he was here to lecture you. He wanted to give you a history lesson. He said that the 500 million Arabs in the world had never contributed anything to science. But to be fair, he is an expert on people who've never contributed anything to science. He wouldn't know science if he smacked them in the face. And at this point, some of them probably have smacked them in the face. This is the dude who literally takes his grandkids swimming in Schitt's Creek. And I just, I find it personally offensive that the guy, the guy works out in jeans. Which means, by definition, he's got to skip leg day. Can't be doing leg day in some jeans. Now, this would all be a laughing matter if in this state all summer we weren't running around trying to dodge lettuce. If you can afford it, right? Does everybody have to worry about the ---- lettuce epidemic? He didn't bother to show up when 8,000 people were infected by the ---- lettuce. But he wants to come here and lecture you about potentially electing an Arab American to the U.S. Senate. Here's the funny thing about it. My guy has zero doctorates. I got two of them. And I'll tell you this. You don't have to have gone to medical school to know that you don't want people to eat the lettuce that has been shat upon. That's the bad lettuce. You don't want that. But this is what happens when you doge the part of government that is supposed to protect you from that lettuce. That's what happens. And we all suffered the consequences. And the CDC couldn't even count it. Michigan's numbers were 2,000 cases higher than the CDC's. And that's the legacy of appointing RFK Jr. to run our public health agencies. So yeah, I think we probably could use a public health senator right about now. But y'all, you know this is not my first rodeo. I ran for governor back in 2018. Some of you supported me. Not nearly enough of you. To be fair, I was 32 years old. I'd never run for office in my life. I said, you know, I'm going to go big or go home. I went big and then I went home. But I said something in that race folks weren't quite ready to hear, which is that Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. Donald Trump is the worst symptom of the disease of our politics. The disease is the system that allows corporations and billionaires and special interests and oligarchs to buy and sell politicians in ways that leave them rigging the system against us. It's why we pay more for all we gotta buy. We get paid less for the work we do. And we watch as our tax dollars get misspent. To drop bombs on other people and their kids rather than to build schools and healthcare and opportunity for our own. So y'all, back in April of 2025, we kicked off a campaign to do three simple things. Y'all already know what they are. Money out of, money in your, Medicare for, and we took that campaign everywhere. 700 public events, 120 cities, and we said the same thing everywhere we went. Didn't matter if you saw me in a room of five or 25 or 500, 2,000. Didn't matter if you saw me on a Instagram reel or a TikTok. Didn't matter if you heard me on a podcast. Didn't matter if you saw me getting a colonoscopy on CNN. I was saying the same thing, talking about the same set of issues, talking about why in the state that showed us what unions could do, that we've got to stand for union rights again. Talking about the notion that in the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, corporations and special interests shouldn't be able to dictate our politics to us. Talking about keeping our tax dollars here to provide schools here and health care here rather than send it abroad to do the worst things over there. Talking about why the richest country in the history of the world deserves the guarantee of health care through Medicare for All. Now, we knew they were going to spend some money against us. I remember when we kicked off the campaign, we said, they're going to spend $20 million to beat me. That was the, we were young and dumb back then. $20 million turned into $40 million, $60 million, $70 million in the primary alone. We got outspent 11 to 1. They set a record for the amount of money spent in a single primary campaign anywhere in American history. And guess what? They might as well have set their money on fire because we beat them anyway. Because if you've got to choose between the many and their money, pick the many. If you've got to choose between the politics of the people or the politics of the special interests, pick the politics of the people. We find ourselves now with just five days left until this movement that we've been building for 19 months reaches its crest. You can do it. We can do it. It's all of us. You know, given the fact that we're spending nearly $5 a gallon in gas and our groceries are more expensive than we've ever seen, you'd think that their campaign might want to mention gas or groceries, but instead they just want to point to me and be like, he's Muslim. Y'all, let me just tell you, I am Muslim. And I'm an American who believes in the Constitution and that that shouldn't matter. Because it doesn't matter how you pray or if you pray at all. We all believe in an America big enough for all of us. Unless, of course, unless, of course, you are the president or vice president. Because if you haven't noticed, they can't seem to keep my name out their mouth. Donald Trump can't seem to figure out what my name is. Abdul. Now he's taking and calling me Muhammad. The funny thing about it is Abdul means servant. Muhammad means the praised one. I'm like, all right, bro, you want to take me from servant to the praised one? I'm okay with it. You might have heard just recently, he called me Abdul Ramadan. Now, if you don't know this, Ramadan is the month in which Muslims fast from dawn to sunset. I mean, the thing about it is groceries under his leadership have gotten so expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if he's like, listen, we could just do Ramadan for all. That's Donald Trump's approach to groceries. Groceries got too expensive. Listen, just fast all day. I'm trying to bring your groceries down. Abdul Ramadan. It's about to be Trump Ramadan soon. Why are you fasting? I can't afford to poop. And then, here's the thing. I don't know if you saw this. Just recently, he said that I should have to go through a metal detector. It's all right, man. He took that Wolverine thing seriously. He knows I got claws. Here's the deal, Donald. Listen, I'll go through a metal detector if you'll sit for a lie detector. Simple. I got nothing to hide. You've got so much to hide. My first question, esteemed. Second question, did you win the 2020 election? So that's the deal. I'll go through a metal detector every day. You sit through a lie detector one time. That's the deal. That's the thing about it is, you know, the only reason that they do this is because they're conning. And the thing about the con is when they're deceiving you, they're picking your pocket. That's how this works. And then, I don't know if you saw this, Donald Trump was supposed to come to Michigan again. He came last Sunday. He wanted you to know something, okay? So let me just faithfully relay this to you. He wants you to know that he's on the ballot, okay? He wants you to vote like he's on the ballot. So Kalamazoo, on Tuesday, I want you to vote like Donald Trump is on the ballot. Because Donald Trump is on the ballot. His war in Iran is on the ballot. His tariff war is on the ballot. His big ugly bill is on the ballot. Trump, though, he realized that this was probably not helping. So instead, he canceled all his next rallies, and he's just going to go home to Mar-a-Lago. And we're about to normalize con men politicians going back home to Florida. You know there's always someone in that group that's thirsty for attention. They keep sending that Ohio State Buckeye here. What's his name? JV Dance? They keep sending JV here and asking JV to do the dirty work, but that's the thing about it. JV's got zero charisma. They taught him that at Ohio State. When your school mascot's like a nut, what do you expect? JV dance. But here's the thing about it. Y'all, they can keep saying my name and keep pointing to my face. My name and my face are not the reason you can't afford your gas and your groceries. My name and my face are not the reason you can't afford your gas. My name and my face are not the reason you can't see a doctor. I mean, chances are, if you're seeing a doctor, they might actually have my name and my face. Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough. You laugh so you don't cry. It is their policies that are doing that. It is their Iran war that is the reason you can't afford your gas and your groceries. It's their tariff war with Canada, which is the reason you can't afford anything else. It is their big, ugly bill that is making it harder for you to see a doctor. And the reason they don't want to talk about any of it is because they can't do anything to fix it. And beyond that, I just don't think it's going to work. See, I know what my name is. For most of my life, I thought that meant that there was no world I could ever consider running for office. My college graduation. I was the senior speaker at the University of Michigan. The main speaker was Bill Clinton. And look, I gave my speech. President Clinton gives his speech. He comes up to me afterwards. He said, son, why are you going to medical school? I'm like, I'm brown and Muslim. That's what we do. But I love people and I love science. He said, that's great. But you've got a gift for communicating. Maybe someday you'll run for office. I laughed in his face. I was like, Mr. President, people like me don't get to run for office. Do you see my name? It's very long. He kind of thought about it for a second. Then he chuckled and walked away. That was 2007. Seven. 2008, I watched Barack Hussein Obama run for and win the presidency. I got to spend some time with President Obama on Saturday. He was here supporting our campaign, and I got to tell him what it meant to see him do what he did. But in some respects, he had the same, confirmed the same understanding that I've always had. When you've got a name that's uncommon, your family comes from a place that's uncommon, you're not taking a bet on you and your name. That's not the bet I've ever taken. The bet I'm taking is on Michigan. When they say, oh, how are you going to vote for a guy named Abdul? They're not talking about me. You understand? You know what they're talking about. They're talking about you. And that's the part that bothers me. Because I've had the privilege of traveling this state for the last 19 months. I've been invited to living rooms and backyards. I was at his backyard Churches, synagogues. I've been all over the state. And people here in Michigan, they take our differences as an invitation for a conversation. And I know that there's always a few small people who want to make us small like them. They speak loudly because they want you to think that they speak for everybody, but they don't. The vast majority of folks in our state, open-hearted, big-minded, they want to understand what you're about, what is it that you want to do, and how can we do that thing together. So as I've traveled the state, I've seen the best of Michigan, people who want a big Michigan, earnest and gritty. We here in Michigan, we understand. That we're willing to work hard. Very few people in the world work harder than Michiganders. And we're earnest. We give the best and we expect the best. We just don't want our hard work exploited by a billionaire from New York or a millionaire from Florida. And as I've been able to travel this state and meet folks in their communities, I realize just how big we are. We understand something. The union movement taught us that. That solidarity is an act. Solidarity is about reaching across your divides, not despite, but because of your differences. See, we can have nice things, we just can't do it alone. The only way we get those nice things is by reaching together for them, covering one another's weaknesses and flaws to build together something we can't have alone. That has been the story of solidarity from the jump. It's what built the middle class, built the 40-hour work week, built the fact that our kids go to school. It's what can build that again. Our willingness to reach across the divides that they tell us we can't breach. Divides of geography or race or faith or sexual orientation or gender identity. Building together what we can't have alone. That is the story of Michigan. It's the story of our democracy. It's the thing they're attacking when they try to divide us by pointing to any one of us and telling us why we can't belong. And Michigan, we have an opportunity to reject that small politics of small-minded people. And embrace a politics that brings us together around the hope we have in the idea that we can live together in a society and that we can build something that is greater than the sum of its parts. Something we're proud to hand off to our kids and our grandkids. That's the work of this moment. That's what this campaign has always been about. So when they tell us that they're going to intimidate us, see, what they don't understand about us Michiganders is we don't back down. We won't back down. So Kalamazoo, when they come for our union rights, We won't back down. When they come for our health care, we won't back down. When they come for our voting rights, we won't back down. We won't back down when they come for our neighbors. We won't back down when they come for our democracy. We won't back down when they come to send our tax dollars for war. We won't back down when they come for our right to choose. We won't back down, and we won't back down for the next five days. And we won't back down for the next six years because it is our democracy and we intend to use it. Kalamazoo, we got five days left. It's time for us to build out the Michigan we deserve. A Michigan that is bigger than their hate. A Michigan that is bigger than their smallness. A Michigan where we guarantee union rights and guarantee health care and clean air and clean water and the right to choose. A Michigan where we love each other and build together. A Michigan that we hand off to our kids and grandkids. Kalamazoo, my name is Abdul El-Sayed, and I hope I can earn your support. Thank you so much. Subscribe to One India and never miss an update. Download the OneIndia app now.