f{"id":49636,"date":"2026-08-11T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=49636"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:41:15","slug":"its-not-radical-to-believe-you-should-have-healthcare-el-sayed-hits-back-at-trump-gop-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/its-not-radical-to-believe-you-should-have-healthcare-el-sayed-hits-back-at-trump-gop-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Not Radical to Believe You Should Have Healthcare\u2019: El-Sayed Hits Back at Trump, GOP Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/michigan-democrats-hold-general-election-kickoff-event-in-detroit.jpg?id=67597564&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;quality=70&amp;coordinates=0%2C276%2C0%2C391\" alt=\"Michigan Democrats Hold General Election Kickoff Event In Detroit\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic US Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a rally on August 7, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0(Photo by Bill Pugliano\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s vision is the one you\u2019re living in right now,\u201d said the Democratic US Senate nominee. \u201cCan you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries?\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson\">Jake Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aug 10, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fresh off his victory in the Democratic primary race for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/us-senate\">US Senate<\/a>&nbsp;in Michigan, progressive epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed used television appearances on Sunday to respond to increasingly hysterical attacks by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;and President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;while offering a positive vision for the future, underscoring his support for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/medicare-for-all\">Medicare for All<\/a>&nbsp;and a humane foreign policy that doesn\u2019t fund&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/genocide\">genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not radical to believe that people should be able to afford their groceries,\u201d El-Sayed, who is set to face Republican Mike Rogers in November, told NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker in response to the Senate GOP\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrsc.org\/press-releases\/abdul-el-sayed-is-the-most-radical-candidate-in-america-2026-08-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first attack ad<\/a>&nbsp;of the general election. \u201cIt\u2019s not radical to believe that you should have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/healthcare\">healthcare<\/a>&nbsp;in this country. It\u2019s not radical to believe that you don\u2019t think the president should be able to deny elections or make $2.2 billion off of his role in office. It\u2019s not radical to believe that all of us should be able to breathe clean air and drink clean&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/water\">water<\/a>. Those are the things that I\u2019ve been fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RECOMMENDED&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/racist-trump-el-sayed\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/trump-and-melania-on-nye-2024.jpg?id=55456302&amp;width=1200&amp;height=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;coordinates=1098%2C0%2C1098%2C0\" alt=\"Trump and Melania on NYE 2024.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/racist-trump-el-sayed\">\u2018Racist and Bigoted\u2019: Trump Rebuked for Grotesque Attack on Abdul El-Sayed and Wife<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/abdul-el-sayed-polling\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/democratic-leaders-rally-voters-in-michigan-for-senate-candidate-abdul-el-sayed.jpg?id=67555578&amp;width=1200&amp;height=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;coordinates=333%2C0%2C333%2C0\" alt=\"Democratic Leaders Rally Voters In Michigan For Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/abdul-el-sayed-polling\">Dem Establishment Intensifies Attacks on El-Sayed as New Poll Shows Him Leading by Double Digits<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump and congressional Republicans wasted no time launching unhinged and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-race-islamophobic-attacks_n_6a73b5ede4b04fcbf74d15b9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bigoted<\/a>&nbsp;attacks on El-Sayed following his primary victory last week. In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117063162955258981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;an image showing a photo of himself and First Lady Melania Trump alongside a photo of El-Sayed and his wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku. The caption of the photo blared, \u201cTwo VERY DIFFERENT America\u2019s [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked by CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper to respond to the post, El-Sayed said Sunday that the caption is \u201cright.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne [America] in which your overlords are two people who don\u2019t like each other, but joint in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that that family is going to have the good things,\u201d said the Michigan Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, yes, you got two different visions of America. Donald Trump\u2019s vision is the one you\u2019re living in right now,\u201d he continued. \u201cCan you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries? Do you believe, when you look your kids in the eye, that they\u2019re going to have a better future than you did?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed responds to President Trump posting a picture of his wife. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j8lGGwPET8\">pic.twitter.com\/j8lGGwPET8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CNNSOTU\/status\/2086447534780580002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El-Sayed overcame more than $30 million in spending by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)\u2014and over $60 million in total outside spending\u2014to defeat Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in last week\u2019s primary contest. Throughout his primary campaign, El-Sayed criticized&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/aipac\">AIPAC<\/a>&nbsp;as a destructive force in US politics and spoke out in support of ending American military aid to Israel\u2014a stance that Trump and Republicans have sought to equate to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/antisemitism\">antisemitism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe doesn\u2019t love Israel. He doesn\u2019t love Jewish people,\u201d Trump said of El-Sayed last week. \u201cHe hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his CNN appearance on Sunday, El-Sayed hit back at the president\u2019s smear, saying, \u201cI love and revere Judaism and the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey are not the same as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/aipac\">AIPAC<\/a>&nbsp;in Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cI want our tax dollars spent to provide good schools, to pay for healthcare, to rebuild our roads here in Michigan, rather than it being sent abroad to subsidize foreign militaries. That\u2019s not just Israel, by the way. That is also Egypt and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/saudi-arabia\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>&nbsp;and Jordan and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I believe in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/international-law\">international law<\/a>,\u201d El-Sayed continued. \u201cI believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination for all people. I believe in a process that allows a free Palestinian people and free Jewish Israeli people to come together around what they believe the ultimate peace should look like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson\">Jake Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson\">Full Bio &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic US Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a rally on August 7, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. \u00a0(Photo by Bill Pugliano\/Getty Images) \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s vision is the one you\u2019re living in right now,\u201d said the Democratic US Senate nominee. \u201cCan you afford your gas? 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