By The Daily Wire (World News) | Created at 2026-08-11 17:26:06 | Updated at 2026-08-11 18:12:43
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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed advocated abolishing the Second Amendment in favor of the “right to have health care” in a now-hidden video.
El-Sayed hid up to 100 videos where he pushed radical policies, including getting rid of the right to bear arms and complaining about fireworks, CNN reported Tuesday. His comments about getting rid of the Second Amendment came shortly after a transgender-identifying woman murdered six people at a Christian school in Tennessee.
“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 healthcare?” he said in April 2023, according to a video viewed by CNN. He claimed that the move would lead to “fewer people dying by gun and more people living because they have healthcare.”
The hidden views come as El-Sayed faces an exodus by some Democrats from his campaign over his extreme views and association with activists like Hasan Piker, who said America “deserved 9/11.” El-Sayed also deleted numerous social media posts advocating to defund the police.
In a July 2024 podcast titled, “Fireworks just aren’t worth it: hear us out,” El-Sayed argued that “fireworks suck” and said Americans should find other ways to celebrate the Fourth of July. The rant against fireworks was sponsored by the Marguerite Casey Foundation, which El-Sayed noted advocated for “feminist prison abolition.”
El-Sayed downplayed concerns about border security as illegal crossings surged to record levels under President Joe Biden in another video flagged by CNN.
In September 2022, when illegal border crossings reached an astounding 227,000, El-Sayed said that border security “doesn’t even make the top five among issues that people in the United States actually care about that affect their lives.”
“It’s crazy to me that the party that says that they’re the party of family values can’t understand when people will make decisions for their families — because that’s exactly what these migrants are doing,” he added.
In other resurfaced videos, El-Sayed attacked Michigan’s beloved Mackinac Island and claimed football was a breeding ground for “toxic masculinity.”
“Football is very much associated with a particularly masculine and oftentimes toxically masculine culture,” he said.
El-Sayed’s campaign claimed his views articulated in the videos don’t reflect what he believes today.
“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,” his campaign said.
While attempting to distance himself from some of his past statements, El-Sayed’s campaign still includes far-Left policy positions like defending so-called “gender-affirming care” and “Medicare for all.”
