Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats must ‘win by massive numbers’ to fend off GOP election denial
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“Donald Trump has already threatened to do what he did in 2020, which is deny the outcomes of an election,” El-Sayed told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday.
Asked by NBC News on Saturday whether he would accept the results of the midterm elections no matter who wins, Trump said, “Of course I will. But we don’t want cheating.”
El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, has also denied 2020 election results, El-Sayed told moderator Kristen Welker. “The guy I’m running against, he insinuates that he didn’t actually lose in 2020,” he said. “He talks about this mythical van that showed up in Detroit with a bunch of votes, as if he didn’t lose.”
Asked by Welker about whether he thinks Trump and Rogers would call his race into question if the results are close, El-Sayed said, “I am concerned that Donald Trump and Mike Rogers are not committed to the institution of our democracy.”
After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Trump targeted Michigan with election fraud claims that were eventually shot down by a judge, who called them “ nothing but speculation and conjecture .”
Michigan was also among a handful of states where Trump supporters in 2020 sought to submit a slate of so-called fake electors to the Electoral College to falsely declare that Trump won. Fifteen people were charged in the alleged scheme, but their cases were later dismissed .
Earlier this year, in a series of escalating inquiries about the state’s voter rolls, the Trump administration demanded that Wayne County , home to Detroit, give the federal government all of its ballots from the 2024 presidential election.
In the “Meet the Press” interview, which was taped Friday, El-Sayed said he’s confident he can win over former Trump voters with his campaign’s economic focus. That includes making healthcare more accessible through “Medicare for All” and fighting corporate interests.
“Everywhere I go, I get somebody who comes up and says, ‘Look, I voted for Trump two, three times, and I’m voting for you.’ And I ask why. They say, ‘It’s because you really want me to have healthcare.’ I really want them to have healthcare. ‘It’s because you really are America first.’ I really am America first,” said El-Sayed, a former public health official.
He also hopes those economic messages resonate with Jewish voters who may otherwise be skeptical of him because of his criticism of Israel and his rhetoric.
“The things that unite us are so much bigger than the things that divide us, so much bigger. We believe in religious pluralism. We believe in the separation of church and state. We believe that more people deserve healthcare. We believe in reproductive rights. We believe that Donald Trump is an existential threat on our democracy. We believe that corporations shouldn’t be able to buy politicians,” he said.
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