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Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Anyway, obviously our top news story of the day is Abdul El-Sayed.

[00:00:05]You guys know him. We all know him, and hopefully the people of Michigan, now that they're getting to know him, are liking what they see. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed reached out to me a couple months back and said, "Hassan, I would love for you to come and stump with me. Go on a rally with me." I thought in my mind, "Sure, why not? We've already collaborated.

[00:00:25]You've already been on my stream. I fundraised for you. I really like what you're doing. I like your back ground. I like your worldview. I trust you." So, I said, "Yes." But, what I did not realize that stumping for a candidate and doing rallies was actually very different than having the candidate come on your broadcast. Now, what's interesting about that is when I came out and said I was going to do a rally with him, a bunch of advocacy organizations that are pro-Israel got very mad. Obviously, the propaganda wing of AIPAC, Jewish Insider, was very frustrated about it.

[00:00:58]They started writing article after article after article. You had a lot of centrist, right-wing, Israel first Democrats who were also very frustrated, and they came out of the gate swinging for the fences. Swinging at your boy.

[00:01:12]They said, "Hassan is a dangerous man. Hassan is a dangerous anti-Semite." They said, "Used heinous smears." They said, "Hassan is is not good. Campaign poison. Unelectable."

[00:01:25]Well, I wasn't running for any election anyway. I was just showing up and offering support to my friend Abdul El-Sayed. They said I was a terrorist.

[00:01:34]They tried to terror jacket not only myself, but terror jacket Abdul, a Muslim man. And that's when the barrage of Hassan articles started coming out.

[00:01:44]Many of those articles featured my perspective on Israel. And if you recall at the time, I said, "I don't really mind this stuff. I don't really mind this hatred." I said, "They are unambiguous in their hatred of me, and I welcome their hatred. They drew their line of demarcation. When all these attacks were happening, what did I tell you over and over again? That this stuff is irrelevant. I said your boos mean nothing because I've seen what makes you cheer. I said placing yourself on the wrong side of a 90/10 issue, placing yourself on the wrong side of a 90/10 issue is only going to make you look bad. It's going to be good for me. It's going to be good for the candidates that I work with. And it turns out it was true. Turns out it was true. New poll came out today. Ed Inger Mentum calls it the Hossanabi bump. He posted, "You come at the king, you better not miss." New poll in Michigan, May 1 through 7, showing Abdul El-Sayed at 27%.

[00:02:43]>> [screaming] >> Hayley Stevens following at 18% and Mallory McMorrow, also known as Mallory McCuomo, at 17%.

[00:02:53]>> [screaming] >> Here was my prediction. Attack Abdul in a not-so-subtle Islamophobic campaign where they tried to like terror jacket by self and Abdul El-Sayed, which then backfired because then that led to a lot of coverage on Abdul El-Sayed, which led people to to engage his campaign, try to figure out what his positions are, and they liked what they heard. So, I think this will have a similar impact as well.

[00:03:19]It will lead people into questioning why McMorrow is trying to present herself as this like anti-establishment candidate and position herself as different than Abdul El-Sayed when he is the true anti-establishment pick. This is a race where people are looking for an anti-establishment candidate. Yeah, and I called it, but nobody ever listens to what I have to say. They always want to talk about me, but they never want to talk to me, and they also don't want to hear what I have to say. A lot of these things I've already talked about. A lot of these things I already brought up.

[00:03:50]Now, of course, Democrats are uh hitting the the maximalist cope. So many issues this Mitchell Mitchell poll sample uh small sample entirely by text, which only gets you an overly engaged in liberal sample. Define LVs using self-report. Sample is way heavy on college educated and is pretty far off the expected electorate on age and gender. They texted RVs and simply asked, "Who's voting in the Dem primary?" and got a super engaged and probably very liberal group of voters who are not all representative of the primary electorate. Cope. People are doing exactly opposite of what the establishment media is peddling for zero trust in mainstream media. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:04:20]Now, this is just cope and we'll get to all of that in a second. But, there's a lot I want to talk about with this.

[00:04:25]Jokes aside, the poll itself quite literally features myself by name. Like, it literally says it was the Hasan bump. I don't think that's the case.

[00:04:34]Now, the reason why I say that is because it is virtually impossible for me to be a kingmaker for a bad candidate, okay? That's just I'm not being humble. I'm not being humble. I need you to understand. Abdul is a great candidate. He is a stud. He has spent most of his life advocating for Medicare for All. He worked in public health in the state of Michigan. He's a doctor.

[00:04:57]He's a Rhodes Scholar. He's jacked. If Abdul was a candidate, aligning with someone like myself wouldn't actually do anything for him. It wouldn't help. It's the same with Zoran.

[00:05:07]I can only highlight candidates that are positive, candidates that are good, politicians that are responsive. I can only highlight their best uh their their best side, right? That's the point. Yesterday, you said you're not a kingmaker, you're just an and I think that's up for debate. So, we look at the race. Elsayed 32, leads McMorrow 19, and Stevens 10 with white voters. However, Stevens 36, leads McMorrow 17, and Elsayed with African-American voters.

[00:05:31]That's machine politics. Machine politics always goes for most uh corporate aligned. That's the That's the role that the Democrat the machine plays. It's tough to tackle. It's a very very important aspect of winning primaries, and it's been a huge hurdle for left candidates to climb. It's true though. In any case, among voters who are neither white nor African-American, Stevens 27 has a big lead over El Sayed 15 and McMorrow at 5%. It's very clear that one of the most important factors in El Sayed's moving up in the polls is the support he's receiving from far-left progressives who very strongly oppose United States and Israeli intervention in both Gaza and Iran. His support really bumped up after the endorsement by Hassan It would be interesting to see whether this is enough support to allow him to win. However, it is important to remember that with two women and with one man, the man has an advantage because the women vote will be divided almost equally, Mitchell concluded. Pollster in the Michigan Senate race showing Abdullah by nine saying that Hassan is the primary reason for his surge in the polls. I think this is wrong. I don't think I'm like the only reason. I don't think I'm I'm only I'm only capable of getting candidates more name recognition. Yeah, they also call me anti-Semitic in the in the second mention in here. This is the same poll that we're looking at. After endorsement from US Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont, and controversial podcaster Hassan Abdullah said at 28, he's surged into a 9% lead over Congresswoman Haley Stevens at 18 and State Senator Mallory McMorrow. There's still 38% that are undecided. We got to go after those folks. It has generally been the rule that the most liberal Democrats vote in a Democratic primary and the most conservative Republicans vote in a Republican primary. With El Sayed attacking far-left and in opposition to both the United States and Israel in Gaza and Iran, El Sayed is running as the most progressive and liberal candidate. Democrats saw the impact of the strong leftist progressive wing of their party take over the Democratic nominating convention held to determine Democratic nominees for statewide office like Secretary of State, Attorney General, and statewide education board seats. considered by many to be anti-Semitic, is probably a primary reason for El Sayed's movement upward in the Democratic primary. Like, what is this argument that like I'm anti-Semitic, which is ridiculous, but then also anti-Semitism is really good? Like, what the is is really good to win votes?

[00:07:36]It's ridiculous. Anyway, the pollster that did this is a right-wing pollster regardless, which makes this a little bit more interesting, but that's also part of the reason why Republicans, or not Republicans, but like right-wing Democrats will say this poll is propping up Abdul El-Sayed because they think Abdul El-Sayed will lose to Rogers. It's And you'll start hearing that.

[00:07:57]You'll start hearing that from naysayers immediately, okay? Some of them will try to tackle the poll itself and will claim that this poll is actually bad. Mother You need to stop with that You have so much pull in this way even though your audience is 25 to 30 40k a day. Your methods and your words get back to Deborah's and Barbara's. Even the most offline normies know who you are and respect your politics. Your politics is the new left in America and people crave it. You're not just some You're relevant and impactful figure. Okay, that's a little bit too much. I'm never going to sit here and glaze myself. I'm just being, you know, I I I'm going to stay grounded, okay, and even keeled. I think no figure is individually responsible.

[00:08:35]And I think most of the responsibility, victory or defeat, and in this case, hopefully, inshallah, a victory, stems from the candidate themselves. Are they charismatic? Are they responsive? What are their policies? Are they able to communicate their policies and their their motives well enough that that it penetrates the collective consciousness of the constituents, the voters. I think Abdul has it all. Zoran had it, too.

[00:08:59]There are some people who have it. Some people who don't. There are a lot of candidates this midterms election that have it. What we can do is mobilize.

[00:09:07]What we can do is organize. We have passionate voters, activists, advocates, organizers in this community that are desperate for a change. And if they see someone as an agent of that change, a change that they want to see, they'll go out and they won't just vote for that candidate, but they'll go out and engage in advocacy for said candidate. They'll door knock. They'll phone bank. They'll do all these things to combat the barrage of negative ads that are coming the way of these anti-Israel, pro-Medicare-for-all candidates from a lot of corporate super PACs. That's what it is. How do you read a poll where the base has nearly 40% undecided and is nearly equally split among three Dems ranging from centrist to far left and say the base is with the left? Like, how do you actually do that with a straight face? I'm not merely being a jerk here.

[00:09:52]I'm sincerely curious how this could be your honest take on this poll. The 80% under 45s with one candidate shows how he's seizing the ground with marginal voters. The elderly that represent Mike Gravel and Steven's supporters are likely to coalesce around him. That should help. Michael from Pennsylvania is correct. Machine politics voters, lifelong uh blue dog Democrats, lifelong straight down ballot voters will color coalesce around the one who actually wins. What's important in the general is to activate voters that normally don't vote. The youth, voters that have left the Democratic Party's ranks. The fact that this is a primary in a midterm and there's this much excitement from the youth vote around a particular candidate in a normal competent Democratic Party should imply that that candidate uh is is the one that goes into the general, right? If we had a primary system that revolved around electability, like real electability, they would look to the situation, they would look to the results, they would see that 80% of the under 85 or the under 35 voters are excited to vote for one guy, 80%, and they would go, "Those are literally the people that never vote and now or under 45, sorry, under 45." It's unbelievable.

[00:11:05]80% is Assad numbers for under 45. Those are the people that don't vote. Or if they do, they don't really vote for the Democrats. Those are the people that left the Democratic Party. The voters that are already a given that will vote in the Democratic primaries, the the over 45, the over 65, those are people that will always vote for the Democrat regardless. The candidate that secures enthusiasm and excitement from the unlikely coalitions that the Democrats lost is the candidate that what is most likely to win in the general. Abdul El Sayed is that candidate. A competent party would say, all right, clearly these polls show that he has the momentum in the general. He's most likely to win in the general. And yet, we don't have a party primary system that is actually designed for electability. We have a party primary system where we weaponize false arguments of electability to present the only adequate choice as the most moderate one. Because the goal of the primary system is not to actually put forth the best possible candidate. The goal of the primary system is to put forth the most corporate-backed candidate. Corporate-backed, but still somewhat exciting to the base. That is what they're trying to do in the primaries. Nathan says you're a Republican, and of course he shows that you know, everyone is losing to Mike Rogers, which is by the way. I would bet my life on it. The idea that Mike Rogers is going to win against even McMorrow, honestly, is ludicrous. The only candidate that Mike Rogers could potentially win against is Stevens, and this is the one where this C-rated Glengariff poll says Stevens has the highest likelihood of of of coming closer to Mike Rogers. 44 to 42, 43 to 41, 45 to 40, saying El Sayed is the least likely to to to he's the worst performing against Mike Rogers. This is There is no shot. battle is happening in the primaries in this in this election. It's not going to be in the general. Mike Rogers lost against Slotkin. Mike Rogers is not winning against El Sayed, and certainly not winning against I mean, is certainly not winning against El Sayed, and possibly not even winning against McMorrow, I'll be honest. He might have a better shot at defeating Haley Stevens. Like clockwork, huge hit piece on Abdul just dropped. Of course it did. They tarnish the reputation of incredible candidates like this. They try to do everything in their power to stop this momentum.

[00:13:31]Michigan Senate hopeful El Sayed calls himself a physician but has little history little experience as a licensed medical doctor or no experience. Yeah, bro, he's an epidemiologist. He's an epidemiologist. That's not he's literally openly stated that. Does he have a PhD? He's a doctor? No, he is he's a doctor. He's literally a doctor.

[00:13:49]He's also an epidemiologist. He has an MD. They're so desperate. They're hitting the Zlatan route here. They're like Abdul El Sayed doesn't like vanilla flavored ice cream. What's next? One time we found Dr. Abdul El Sayed actually threw a piece of garbage in the recyclable garbage can but it was only 53% recyclable. Can you have some decency, sir? Why do you want the environment to suffer? There's no doubt that El Sayed has top-notch medical credentials. He attended the University of Michigan Medical School and up receiving his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has a doctorate in public health from Oxford University and worked as an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia for a year before moving to Detroit to be the executive director of health officer of the Detroit Health Department. That's the guy that they're saying is like beefing up his credentials. If anything, saying that you were a licensed physician would be a downgrade from the amount of experience he has in the in the field of public health which for the record he doesn't present himself as a physician at all.

[00:14:50]So, what the are you talking about?

[00:14:52]He's a goddamn Rhodes Scholar. That's from the hit piece. That's how insane this guy's credentials are. Yeah.

[00:14:59]>> [laughter] >> Abdul didn't clutch around during promotion and call it in in in Counter-Strike one time. He is is he capable of winning an election if he can't win a promotional round in Counter-Strike? So, he has more relevant experience for government than he would as a normal patient focused doctor. Yes, of course. They're literally going to go back into our old videos that we did our old streams and find that he actually couldn't make a three-point shot. You know what I mean? Against those kids that we played in Dearborn and be like, "Look at his jumper. If he's not ready for the big leagues, is he ready for Congress?" Like, actually insane. Every candidate in the country's going to be trying to get get us on the campaign with them. Yeah, look at this dude.

[00:15:38]Voters age 18 to 44, El Sayed, 80%.

[00:15:43]>> [screaming] >> The voters heard what was going on and said, "That's my guy." To our non-binary members, female El Sayed plus one, male El Sayed plus 13, non-binary El Sayed plus 100.

[00:15:56]Ages 18 to 34, El Sayed plus 76. But yeah, centrist lib still desperately trying to make the argument that a Muslim doctor who's dedicated his life to Medicare for All is unelectable in Michigan. They were professionally wrong when they complained about Abdul campaigning with me. They're still professionally wrong. Have some humility is what I said to Trey Easton, John Fetterman's very own Trey Easton from John Fetterman. That is how he should be known. I would genuinely far less heartburn about Abdul's candidacy if he demonstrated an ability to one, get elected to anything previously, two, excite anyone who didn't already agree with them. This isn't Twitch, it's real life. If Abdul is the nominee, then I'll happily use my little corner of the internet to champion him because I recognize he's far better than the alternative, but he's more or less running a smug factionalist campaign and he's untested in a tough race. His candidacy is risky. I love that these guys who are unironically engaging in factionalism against the left flank that is unbelievably exciting for the voters that normally don't vote for the Democratic Party. They are actively doing factionalism while claiming that there is factionalism in mind. Abdul El Sayed didn't say a single thing about Mallory McMorrow or even Haley Stevens for that matter. Mallory McMorrow was the one who came out and was like, "Oh, you're hanging out with a Twitch streamer? Well, that seems a lot like you're engaging in terrorism. Why are you hanging out with the Nick Fuentes of the left?" That's what Mallory McMorrow said. And she didn't just say that on any random channel, she went to the propaganda arm of AIPAC, Jewish Insider, with an exclusive interview to reveal that message. Now that that backfired on her spectacularly, as I told you it would, and these who highlighted that narrative over and over again, thinking that it was actually going to work out, thinking that it was actually going to tarnish Abdul El-Sayed's reputation amongst the base, are still not showing a semblance of humility, a crumb of humility. It's unbelievable, dude. This is how it started. Mallory McMorrow on Hasan in an interview with the Jewish Insider. It is somebody who says extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks and views and followers, which is not entirely different from somebody like Nick Fuentes. is a provocateur, to put it lightly, who says things are misogynistic and anti-Semitic, and said that the United States deserved 9/11. McMorrow in seeking the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan. I had no smoke for McMorrow before this, either, by the way. It's so crazy that these people are uh so shameless, so shameless in the way that they operate, and then they turn around and go, "Oh I threw hands."

[00:18:23]And then it turns out it didn't work, and now we're trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

[00:18:28]What was Trey Easton doing when this came out? Highlighting this message. And the funniest part about it, they genuinely don't even want to recognize that this failed. They're still looking for alternative reasons as to why this campaign spectacularly backfired, and now people don't want to and people actually heard about Abdul El-Sayed for the first time, and they were like, "I actually like what I hear. I like what he is bringing to the table. He's exactly my kind of guy. He's very exciting for young voters, voters that left the goddamn party, young male voters." On a Democratic Party Senate primary race in a midterm election, you got an incredible amount of youth voters activated, and the Democrats are like, "We don't like this, actually. We don't want this. We don't want this. This is scary. What we need is the 65-year-olds. Yeah, the 65-year-olds are going to vote for the Democrat. It's a Trump election. What are you talking about? We both know that those guys are already locked in.

[00:19:23]They're going to vote for whatever Democrat is presented in front of them.

[00:19:26]Let's be real. But I'm not going to sit here and complain about it. Okay? Just say the truth. Who cares? People will hear you. I just saw the edited the Metro Times Detroit article a little bit. Previously, there was an affirmative statement that you have repeatedly denounced anti-Semitism in the first pick. The editor then changed it to saying I dis saying I dispute being anti-Semitic in the second pick.

[00:19:47]It follows weeks from attacks from rivals, the centrist Democratic establishment, and the mainstream media over Elshant decision to campaign with the sound biker, a popular left-wing streamer and a vocal critic of US support for Israel, whom some have accused of anti-Semitism. has repeatedly denounced anti-Semitism. The attacks appear to have backfired spectacularly. That was in the original reporting from Metro Times. The editor came in and hit the edit on it. It follows weeks after attacks from rivals, the centrist Democratic establishment, and the mainstream media over Elshant decision to campaign with the sound biker, popular left-wing streamer, and a vocal critic of US support for Israel, who has faced anti-Semitism accusations he strongly disputes. The first one was infinitely more honest, honest, which is why they edited it. This is how it works. It's This seems minor, but this is how you create an environment of volatility around a particular individual, an environment that is constantly reinforcing itself. This is how you manufacture consent. This is how you manufacture controversy. This is how the media works. A big part of my job is to explain to you how this stuff works.

[00:20:48]We rarely ever get to see it in real time, though. You have a journalist who probably saw my, you know, many denunciations of anti-Semitism and chose to put it in the article. And then you had an editor that went, "No, that's not how this goes. We have to present him as a dangerous anti-Semite because he's an avowed anti-Zionist. Oh >> [clears throat] >> Detroit Metro Times top articles the original second is the edited Metro Times any explanation?

[00:21:13]Our intention was not to smear us on.

[00:21:15]However, we see how the wording in the previous version was better. We appreciate the free feedback and reverted to the original version. Oh God big W's today man. Little W's big W's.

[00:21:27]Let's freaking go.