A mountain of opposition research just got dumped on Michigan Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s head.
The brewing scandal is a tough one to explain away.
And Abdul El-Sayed hopes no one sees these shocking videos from his past.
There is an old expression that baseball, apple pie, and the Fourth of July are quintessentially American.
No candidate running for office wants to oppose any of those.
But Abdul El-Sayed is facing heavy attacks from Republicans about his third-world outlook.
And CNN’s K-File unearthed videos El-Sayed’s team tried to scrub from the internet that delivered Republicans all the ammunition they needed to define El-Sayed in the minds of voters as a woke, anti-American third-worldist.
In one video, El-Sayed rants that fireworks celebrations on July 4th ‘suck’ and that Americans should pick something else to do.
“Can we PLEASE find another way to celebrate July 4th? Four reasons why fireworks suck,” the title of the video read.
In another video, El-Sayed wonders if football is “ethical” or “safe.”
And of course, El-Sayed says the game is racist and sexist, saying football is “very much associated with a particularly masculine and oftentimes toxically masculine culture.”
El-Sayed then goes on to rant about how football is an expression of colonialism and how Americans opposed Indians and blacks.
“You think about all the wars that we fight abroad, all of the sordid history of oppressing other people in the name of this American idea whether it was ‘Manifest Destiny’ and destroying Native Americans, or it was the transatlantic slave trade where folks who ‘founded this country’ on the backs of native folks that they destroyed, captured people, enslaved them and had them work their fields because they thought it was their right,” El-Sayed stated.
“All of this, like a lot of these narratives, you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football,” El-Sayed ranted.
In another video, El-Sayed claimed the crisis at the southern border was a fake issue invented by Republicans that they “love to flog” but that Americans didn’t care about, claiming the border “doesn’t even make the top five among issues that people in the United States actually care about that affect their lives.”
Finally, another video showed El-Sayed proposing eliminating the Second Amendment from the Constitution and replacing it with a “right” to socialized medicine.
“What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?” El-Sayed wondered.
The campaign was thrown into chaos by the revelation and was forced to issue a statement that no campaign ever wants to, claiming that the candidate really didn’t hate football or the Fourth of July.
“Abdul is the former captain of his high school football team, loves Michigan football on Saturdays, and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next Michigander. Cherry-picked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his beliefs today,” the campaign’s press release read.
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