2026年4月14日美国东部时间7:00 / 福克斯新闻
阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德因与马杜罗支持者及其他激进社会主义人士的联系面临新批评
作者：亚历克·舍梅尔 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年4月14日美国东部时间7:00 | 更新时间：2026年4月14日美国东部时间7:15
阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德拒绝与颇具争议的Twitch主播哈桑·皮克尔划清界限，这加剧了外界对这位密歇根州参议院候选人是极端主义者的指控。
随着埃尔赛义德的竞选活动持续推进，福克斯新闻数字频道 uncovered 更多他与激进社会主义活动人士的关联，包括一名亲马杜罗的组织者和其他极左翼人士，这些人的支持如今正成为其政治包袱。
例如，埃尔赛义德最近吹捧了汤姆·伯克的背书。伯克长期担任一个旨在在美国组建新共产党的组织的执行负责人，同时也是公开支持尼古拉斯·马杜罗的活动人士，经常前往委内瑞拉。他近期就在纽约抗议马杜罗因毒品恐怖主义指控被羁押，2022年曾到访加拉加斯出席委内瑞拉执政党——当时由马杜罗领导的委内瑞拉统一社会主义党的代表大会，2020年还会见了委内瑞拉选举机构的高层官员，该机构被指在马杜罗执政期间操纵选举。
与此同时，埃尔赛义德近期还与阿纳斯·“安迪”沙拉尔共同举办了一场筹款活动。沙拉尔公开赞扬古巴领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗以及黑人解放运动成员阿萨塔·沙库尔——后者在与其他激进分子的枪战中杀害一名新泽西州州警并被定罪。埃尔赛义德还收到了马克思主义专家罗伯特·迈斯特以及布鲁克林教授南希·罗默的捐款，罗默曾抨击美国的“野蛮资本主义”。
密歇根州参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德因哈梅内伊言论、哈桑·皮克尔活动遭抨击
2025年12月16日，阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德出席在密歇根州底特律桥中心举办的2025年底特律黑人组织协会圣诞派对。(莫妮卡·摩根/盖蒂图片社 摄)
福克斯新闻数字频道上月曾报道，埃尔赛义德是一众密歇根州候选人及政客之一，他们曾接收捐款并在社交媒体主页上与一名激进的密歇根籍伊玛目合影。该伊玛目在2月美军击毙伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊后，为其逝世发表悼词并举办正式纪念活动。
“阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德绝无可能在密歇根州的大选中获胜，”一名资深民主党战略家在回应上述报道时告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“这名候选人多年来一直称警察是‘用来对付本国人民的常备军’，曾十多次发帖支持削减警察经费，随后在决定竞选全州公职的瞬间删除了全部社交媒体历史，以为密歇根选民不会注意到。他们会注意到的。迈克·罗杰斯也会注意到。”
作为2018年密歇根州州长候选人，埃尔赛义德曾表示他与美国民主社会主义者（DSA）“共享诸多理念”。据公开报道和社交媒体帖子显示，自2019年以来，埃尔赛义德至少在五场由DSA组织或赞助的活动中发表过演讲或出席活动。
这些言论是在他被问及是否在州长竞选期间寻求过该国全国社会主义运动——DSA——的背书时作出的。埃尔赛义德回应称，他不喜欢标签，但与该组织共享诸多“理念”。
“我们进行了很棒的对话，[但]我不喜欢标签，”埃尔赛义德回应该问题时称，“我来自那个需要非常谨慎、深思熟虑地遣词造句的圈子。我认为‘社会主义’这个词如今含义太过模糊，对不同的人会唤起截然不同的联想。”
“我认为千禧一代口中的‘社会主义’拼写时首字母小写，它意味着政府介入我们生活中一些最重要的领域，以确保并解决我们至今尚未实现的公平水平，”他继续说道，“而我认为，对于60岁以上的人群而言，这个词唤起的是他们人生中一段最令人恐惧的历史。由于它在政治层面唤起了不同的含义，这个词本身就不再是一个有用的表述。”
上月，埃尔赛义德吹捧了国际戏剧舞台雇员联盟第26分会的背书，伯克以该工会主席身份被援引。伯克是一名拥有数十年资历的社会主义领袖，现任自由之路社会主义组织的组织秘书，该组织自称旨在在美国组建新的共产党。伯克也一直是委内瑞拉马杜罗及其政党的忠实支持者。马杜罗近期被特朗普政府羁押并因毒品恐怖主义罪名送上法庭，伯克将此描述为军方在特朗普授意下实施的“可耻”行径。
伯克抨击美国在委内瑞拉的行动无异于在伊拉克和阿富汗所见的政权更迭行动。
国会众议员萨默·李在埃尔赛义德集会上称“上层阶级”为“敌人”
2025年1月20日就职日当天，美国民主社会主义者成员在华盛顿特区游行，举着“社会主义击败法西斯主义”的标语，将即将上任的特朗普政府等同于“法西斯主义”。一份新报告称，这类言论照搬了外国对手的 rhetoric。(阿斯拉·Q·诺曼/福克斯新闻数字频道 摄)
据公开的行程总结和旅行照片显示，伯克频繁前往委内瑞拉，包括2022年出席马杜罗执政的委内瑞拉统一社会主义党的政治代表大会，以及2020年会见委内瑞拉选举机构主席，该机构被指干预该国选举。
照片显示伯克与其他会见支持马杜罗的玻利瓦尔民兵的人员同框，福克斯新闻无法独立核实的照片还显示，伯克2020年在加拉加斯的一场抗议活动中与玻利瓦尔民兵并肩而立，这场抗议有亲政府和反政府势力参与，最终演变为暴力冲突。
尽管马杜罗声名狼藉并在离任后受到赞誉，伯克在2023年的一场电台采访中仍称马杜罗“深受民众欢迎”。
“我们希望构建基于民权运动、妇女解放运动、70年代和80年代 LGBTQ 运动，尤其是劳工运动的社会变革，”伯克几周前在接受《反击！电台》采访时称，“我们希望壮大这些运动，从亿万富翁正在摧毁的旧世界的废墟中建立一个新社会。”
埃尔赛义德近期还与沙拉尔一同竞选造势，沙拉尔是一名富裕的伊拉克裔美国商人兼企业家。据宣传该活动的网页显示，该页面使用了民主党ActBlue筹款机构的域名。沙拉尔曾赞扬并纪念极左翼激进人士，比如古巴共产党领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗以及激进美国活动人士阿萨塔·沙库尔——后者在与其他激进分子的枪战中杀害一名州警，被判处终身监禁后逃往古巴。
“菲德尔·卡斯特罗是一位传奇人物，其影响力远超他深爱的祖国古巴，”他去年11月在Instagram上写道。今年2月，沙拉尔还转发了美国活动家艾丽斯·沃克赞扬卡斯特罗的信件。沙拉尔去年还访问过古巴大使馆，并在社交媒体上发布了自己站在大使馆内古巴政治人物何塞·马蒂雕像前的照片。
安迪·沙拉尔2025年1月18日在华盛顿特区舞台中心举办的和平舞会期间。(谢德里克·佩尔特/《华盛顿邮报》 via 盖蒂图片社 摄)
除伯克和沙拉尔外，埃尔赛义德还获得了激进社会主义教授南希·罗默和马克思主义哲学家罗伯特·迈斯特的支持，两人均向其竞选活动捐款。
罗默曾抨击美国的“野蛮资本主义”，并声称她在数十年前帮助创立了密歇根州的人权党分会，历史记录显示该党派往往比传统民主党更为激进，且绕过正统民主党优先事项。
民主党“团结晚宴”因将MAGA与纳粹相提并论的反特朗普“86 47”标语引发反弹
迈斯特已向埃尔赛义德捐款数千美元，他是一名马克思主义专家，曾断言苏联帝国在冷战时期帮助阻止了反帝国主义运动被镇压，并著有多部探讨如何在当前政治环境中运用马克思主义的著作。迈斯特曾担任“重新思考资本主义布鲁斯倡议”的负责人，其出版作品包括《政治身份：通过马克思思考》以及《共产主义衰落后全球人道主义话语的批判》。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系这位密歇根州参议院候选人，询问其言论以及与公开宣称的社会主义者、其他激进分子及其理念的关联，但未收到回复。
不过，据接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访的共和党战略家表示，无论埃尔赛义德是否自称社会主义者，与其竞争的民主党人都应意识到他的交往对象，并利用这一点为自己造势。福克斯新闻数字频道上月曾报道，埃尔赛义德作为政治候选人接收过捐款，且最晚在2023年仍与密歇根州穆斯林伊玛目穆罕默德·阿里·伊拉希过从甚密。伊拉希在哈梅内伊逝世后的悼词中抱怨，这位伊朗最高领袖是“地球上最卑劣之手”杀害的。
伊玛目穆罕默德·阿里·伊拉希2024年10月18日在密歇根州迪尔伯恩高地的智慧伊斯兰之家主持祈祷。(查利·特里博洛/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社 摄)
在福克斯新闻数字频道询问相关关联并删除照片之前，伊拉希的社交媒体主页上充斥着密歇根州及全国层面民主党政客的合影。照片显示他曾在联合国大会间隙与伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽希基扬会面，伊拉希本人也分享了自己前往伊朗的行程。
在今年9月联合国大会间隙的最新一次会面中，现场照片显示左翼激进组织“CODEPINK”的联合创始人也出席了此次会面，该组织被指与中国关系密切，同时出席的还有前美国情报官员、联合国武器检查员斯科特·里特，里特的家曾被FBI搜查，他本人称这是因违反《外国代理人登记法》。
“阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德正与极端主义者一同竞选、为极端主义者站台。如果他近期的言论还不够糟糕，那么埃尔赛义德与美国民主社会主义者、马杜罗亲信以及伊朗政权同情者的关联，完全符合民主党内部已变得司空见惯的极左翼激进主义特征，”保守派哨兵行动基金主席杰西卡·安德森说道，“密歇根选民已经受够了混乱和极端主义。这就是为什么我们看到迈克·罗杰斯这类通情达理的领导人的支持率不断上升。”
尽管埃尔赛义德未回复福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求，但他确实做客了福克斯新闻频道的《美国新闻室》节目，主持人比尔·赫默就他计划与具争议的、同情共产主义的播主哈桑·皮克尔举办竞选活动一事向他施压。赫默还给了埃尔赛义德一个回应批评的机会，暗示他担心任何相关言论会让“为伊朗最高领袖被美军击毙感到难过”的人感到不快。埃尔赛义德在录音中表示，他宁愿对此保持沉默。
“我只想提醒大家，迪尔伯恩市和迪尔伯恩高地的大多数人并非阿拉伯裔。他们是白人。他们和我一样忧心忡忡，他们为税收上涨、油价随之上涨而感到难过，而这一切都是为了一场我们本不应卷入的战争，”埃尔赛义德称，他谴责这场战争“非法”、“不道德”，并将伊朗局势描述为一场“政权更迭战争”。
赫默还给了埃尔赛义德一个机会，回应他与皮克尔一同竞选的决定，这一决定招致了大量批评。皮克尔曾为哈马斯对以色列平民的袭击和屠杀（包括强奸行为）辩护，被迫收回有关“美国人活该遭遇9·11”的言论，近期还告诉其追随者“你真的不再需要自杀式炸弹袭击了”，因为任何人都可以在网上购买到中国制造的廉价无人机用于恐怖袭击。
皮克尔同情共产主义理念，但自称社会主义者和马克思主义者，同时拒绝被贴上共产主义者的标签。不过，皮克尔也曾将共产主义描述为社会主义的“光荣最终目标”。
主播哈桑·皮克尔（左）与密歇根州联邦参议院民主党初选进步候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德（中右）2026年4月7日在密歇根州安阿伯的密歇根大学竞选活动结束后与年轻粉丝自拍。(朱莉娅·德马雷·尼基森/美联社照片)
“主动接触那些觉得自己被政治体系拒之门外的民众并展开对话，就像我作为民主党初选候选人主动选择在福克斯新闻上发声一样，都是主动的决定，”埃尔赛义德在谈及与皮克尔一同竞选的决定时称，“仅仅因为你邀请某人一同竞选，或是与他们互动，并不意味着你认同他们的观点。”
长期供职于共和党的战略家科林·里德与福克斯新闻采访的其他消息人士看法一致，他表示，尽管埃尔赛义德可能对自己与激进人士的关联轻描淡写，但如果其他民主党初选候选人想要获胜，就应该紧盯他的政治立场。
“公开接受明确的社会主义同情者的支持，无疑会让埃尔赛义德成为‘无国王’集会和其他左翼抵抗运动的座上宾，但在密歇根州这样的战场州，这很难被选民接受，”里德说道，“人以群分，参与本次初选的其他民主党人应明智地利用这些爆料，在选民眼中让埃尔赛义德丧失资格。如果他们不这么做，这将成为又一个迹象，表明极左翼正在主导这些初选的辩论，而这将塑造中期选举的整体格局。”
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Far-left Senate hopeful’s radical ties to ‘Maduro cronies’ could torpedo campaign: ‘Tired of the chaos’
April 14, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News
Abdul El-Sayed faces fresh criticism over links to Maduro backer and other radical socialist figures
By Alec SchemmelFox News
Published April 14, 2026 7:00am EDT | Updated April 14, 2026 7:15am EDT
Abdul El-Sayed’s refusal to distance himself from controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has intensified claims that the Michigan Senate candidate is an extremist.
As El-Sayed’s campaign continues, Fox News Digital uncovered even more ties to radical socialist activists, such as a pro-Maduro organizer and other far-left figures, whose support is now becoming a political liability.
For example, El-Sayed recently touted an endorsement from Tom Burke, the longtime executive leader of a group that hopes to build a new Communist Party in America and a publicly pro-Nicolas Maduro activist who regularly travels to Venezuela. He was just in New York protesting Maduro’s imprisonment on narco-terroism charges, visited Caracas in 2022 to attend the party convention of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the ruling party of Venezuela at the time led by Maduro, and, in 2020, he met with top officials from the country’s elections agency that has been accused of rigging elections under Maduro.
Meanwhile, El-Sayed just held a fundraiser with Anas ‘Andy’ Shallal as well. Shallal has publicly praised Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Assata Shakur, of the Black Liberation Movement, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey State Trooper during a shootout with fellow activists. El-Sayed has also received donations from Marxisim expert Robert Meister and Brooklyn professor, Nancy Romer, who has lambasted the United States’ “savage capitalism.”
MICHIGAN SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED TAKES HEAT FOR KHAMENEI COMMENTS, HASAN PIKER EVENT
Abdul El- Sayed attends the Detroit Association of Black Organizations (DABO) Christmas Party 2025 at the Bridge Center on December 16, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan.(Photo by Monica Morgan/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reported last month that El-Sayed was among a slew of Michigan candidates and politicians who had received donations and were pictured with a radical Michigan-based Imam on his social media pages who eulogized and held formal events honoring the death of Ayatollah Khamenei after he was taken out by U.S. forces in February.
“Abdul El-Sayed cannot win a general election in Michigan, full stop,” a longtime Democratic strategist told Fox News Digital in response to this reporting. “This is a candidate who spent years calling police ‘standing armies we deploy against our own people,’ posted more than a dozen times in support of defunding the police, and then deleted his entire social media history the moment he decided to run statewide, hoping Michigan voters wouldn’t notice. They will notice. And so will Mike Rogers.”
As a gubernatorial candidate in Michigan in 2018, El-Sayed said that he “share[s] a lot of ideals” with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and, since 2019, El-Sayed has spoken at, or attended, at least five DSA-organized or sponsored events, according to public reporting and social media posts.
El-Sayed’s remarks came after he was asked whether he had sought out any endorsements from the country’s national socialist movement – DSA – while running for governor. El-Sayed responded that he doesn’t like labels but shares a lot of “ideals” with the group.
“We’ve had great conversations, and we share a lot of ideals, [but] I don’t like labels,” El-Sayed responded to the question. “I come from that world, where we pick our words very carefully and very thoughtfully. And I think that the term ‘socialism’ is too slippery of a word right now, and it evokes too many different things to too many different people.”
“I think for a millennial the word ‘socialism’ is spelled with a lower-case ‘s,’ and it implies an engagement of government in some of the most important aspects of our lives to ensure and address a level of equity that we have not had,” he continued. “And then, I think for people who are over the age of sixty, it implies a history that was some of the most fearful in their lives. And I think because it evokes different meanings politically, it’s just not a useful term.”
Last month, El-Sayed touted an endorsement from IATSE Local 26, with Burke quoted as the union president. Burke, a decades-long socialist leader, is the organizational secretary at the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which describes itself as aiming to start a new Communist Party in the United States. Burke has also proven himself to be a loyal supporter of Venezuela’s Maduro and his political party. Maduro was recently captured by the Trump administration and sent to court on narco-terrorism charges, which Burke has described as “disgraceful” acts by the military at Trump’s direction.
Burke has slammed the U.S. efforts in Venezuela as amounting to the same sort of regime change efforts seen in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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On Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2025, Democratic Socialists of America members marched in Washington, D.C., carrying signs that said, “SOCIALISM BEATS FASCISM,” equating the incoming Trump administration to “fascism.” A new report says that language parrots the rhetoric of foreign adversaries.(Asra Q. Nomani/Fox News Digital)
Meanwhile, Burke travels to Venezuela frequently, according to publicly posted summaries and photos of his trips, including in 2022 when he attended the political convention for Maduro’s ruling party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, and in 2020, when he met with the president of Venezuela’s elections agency, which has been accused of interfering in the country’s elections.
Burke can be seen in photos alongside other individuals who met with the Maduro-backing Bolivarian Militia, and photos Fox News could not independently verify showed Burke at a 2020 protest in Caracas next to Bolivarian militiamen that involved both pro-government and anti-government forces and ultimately became violent.
Despite Maduro’s fall from grace and praise following his departure, Burke said during a radio interview in 2023 that Maduro was “very popular with people.”
“We want social change that builds upon the civil rights movement and the women’s liberation movement, the LGBTQ movements of the 70s and 80s, and especially the labor movement,” Burke recently said in an interview with Fight Back! Radio several weeks ago. “We want to build up those movements to create a new society from the ashes of the one that the billionaires are destroying.”
El-Sayed also campaigned just recently alongside Shallal, a wealthy Iraqi-American business owner and entrepreneur, according to a web page advertising the event that included a domain belonging to the Democratic Party’s ActBlue fundraising arm. Shallal has praised and commemorated radical far-left individuals, like communist Cuban leader Fidel Castro and radical American activist Assata Shakur, known for killing a state trooper in a gunfight with other activists, being sentenced to life, and then fleeing to Cuba.
“Fidel Castro was a bigger than life figure whose impact reached far beyond his beloved country, Cuba,” he wrote on Instagram in November. In February, Shallal also posted a letter from American activist Alice Walker praising Castro. Shallal visited the Cuban embassy as recently as last year, posting about it on social media in front of a statue at the embassy of Cuban political figure Jose Marti.
Andy Shallal during Peace Ball at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, United States on January 18, 2025.(Shedrick Pelt for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
In addition to Burke and Shallal, El-Sayed accepted support from radical socialist professor Nancy Romer and Marxism philosopher Robert Meister, who both have donated to his campaign.
Romer has lambasted America’s “savage capitalism,” and claims she helped bring about a statewide Michigan chapter of the Human Rights Party decades ago, which historical reports show was often far-left of traditional Democrats and circumvented orthodox Democratic Party priorities.
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Meister, who has donated thousands to El-Sayed, is a Marxism expert who has posited that the Soviet Empire helped prevent anti-Imperialist movements from being squelched during the Cold War era and has written books on how to apply Marxism in the current political environment. Meister previously served as director of The Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism, and his published works include “Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx” and “Critique Of The Global Discourse Of Humanitarian That Followed The Fall Of Communism.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the Michigan Senate candidate about his comments and his ties to publicly avowed socialists, other radicals and their ideals, but did not receive a response.
However, according to Republican strategists who spoke with Fox News Digital, whether El-Sayed calls himself a socialist or not, Democrats running against him should be aware of the company he keeps and use it to their advantage. Fox News Digital reported last month that El-Sayed accepted money as a political candidate and has been seen as recently as 2023 rubbing elbows with Michigan-based Muslim Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, who complained in a eulogy following Khamanei’s death that the Iranian Supreme Leader was killed by “the most wretched hands on Earth.”
Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi leads a prayer at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, on October 18, 2024.(CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
Ali Elahi, whose social media pages were a who’s who of Michigan and national level Democratic politicians until the photos were deleted after Fox News Digital inquired about the connections, showed him regularly meeting with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and the Imam also showed himself taking trips to Iran as well.
At the latest gathering on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September, pictures from the meeting showed it was also attended by the co-founder of the left-wing activist group CODEPINK, which has been accused of having close ties to China, and former U.S. intelligence official and U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, whose house was raided by the FBI for what Ritter himself described as violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
“Abdul El-Sayed is campaigning with, and for, extremists. If his recent comments weren’t bad enough, El-Sayed’s ties to the DSA, Maduro cronies, and Iranian regime sympathizers check all the boxes of radical leftism that has become all too commonplace in the Democrat Party,” said Jessica Anderson, President of the conservative Sentinel Action Fund. “Michiganders are tired of the chaos and extremism. That’s why we see support growing for commonsense leaders like Mike Rogers.”
While El-Sayed did not respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiries, he did go on Fox News channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” during which anchor Bill Hemmer pressed him on his plans to hold a campaign event with controversial, communist-sympathizing podcaster Hasan Piker. Hemmer also gave El-Sayed a chance to respond to criticism about his comments, suggesting he was worried about upsetting people “sad” about the Iranian Supreme Leader’s death at the hands of U.S. military forces with any statement about the matter. El-Sayed said in the recording he preferred to stay silent about it.
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“I just want to remind you that most people in the city of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights are not Arab-American. They are white. And they’re worried, just like I am, they’re saddened by the fact that their tax prices go up and they are watching their gas prices go up with it all to fight a war that we shouldn’t really be a part of,” El-Sayed said, trashing the war as “illegal,” “immoral” and described what was going on in Iran as a “regime change war.”
Hemmer also gave El-Sayed a chance to respond to his decision to campaign with Piker, which has earned him immense criticism. Piker has been slammed for justifying Hamas’ attacks and slaughter, including rapes, on innocent Israelis, was forced to walk back comments about how Americans deserved 9/11, and recently told his followers that “you really don’t need suicide bombing anymore,” because cheap Chinese-made drones can be bought online for anyone who is interested in performing a terror strike.
Piker sympathizes with communist ideals, but has labeled himself a socialist and Marxist while rejecting communist labels. However, Piker has also described communism as the “honorable end goal” of socialism.
Streamer Hasan Piker, left, and Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, center right, take a selfie with young fans following a campaign event, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
“It’s an active decision to reach out to people who feel locked out of their politics to have a conversation, just like I’m making an active decision as somebody who is running in the Democratic primary to have a conversation on Fox News,” El-Sayed said of his decision to campaign with Piker. “Just because you invite somebody to campaign with you, or you’re engaging with them, does not mean that you agree with them.”
Long-time GOP strategist Collin Reed agreed with other sources Fox News spoke to who said that, even though El-Sayed may be brushing off his ties to radical folks, if other Democrats in the upcoming primary want to win they should be zeroing in on his affiliations.
“Welcoming the support from open and avowed socialist sympathizers will no doubt make Mr. El-Sayed the belle of the ball at No Kings rallies and other left-wing resistance movements, but it’s a tough sell in a battleground state like Michigan,” Reed said. “You are the company you keep, and the other Democrats competing in this primary would be wise to use these revelations to disqualify Mr. El-Sayed in the eyes of their voters. If they don’t, it will be another sign that the tail is wagging the dog and the far left driving the debate in these primary contests, which is poised to shape the overall contours of the midterm elections.”
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