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Michigan Dems Pick Candidate Who Says America is Racist

ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

August 5, 2026

Michigan Democrats picked Abdul El-Sayed to be their candidate for the U.S. Senate race. He will face Republican Mike Rogers. Rogers says El-Sayed is “way too extreme for Michigan. I mean, Abdul, he has his own special sauce of crazy." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speakers: Todd Starnes, Abdul El-Sayed, Karl Rove, John Teichert, Dylan, Katie Britt, Keith Self, Parker, William Dietrich, Tomi Lahren, Pete Sessions

Topics: News Commentary, News, Politics

**SPEAKER_1** (0:10)
Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. Todd Starnes.

**Todd Starnes** (0:29)
Well, assalamu alaikum, America.
Wow, what a story coming out of Michigan today.
Hello, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program. So just moments ago, the numbers coming in, it's taken them a very long time to count the ballots there in Michigan. I think they were actually waiting on the Detroit vote, but it looks like that they've officially got a winner here, and he's a pretty dangerous guy. I mean, these look at this is nothing more than a continuation of the leftward lurch of the of the Democrat Party. So anyway, Haley Stevens, she went down and defeat. I'm kind of disappointed over that. I think Melissa McCarthy would have made she would have done a great job on SNL with the Haley Stevens impressions. Anyway, Haley Stevens, the moderate in the race, if you can call a Democrat a moderate, she went down and defeat, and this is a massive win for the communists that are now controlling the Democrat Party. Abdul El-Sayed will be their candidate for the US. Senate. Mike Rogers, former congressman in Michigan, he's going to be the... He ran unopposed in the Republican primary. Anyway, he says, El-Sayed is way too extreme for Michigan. He says, Abdul is his own special sauce of crazy. That coming as a reaction just a little while ago, they're making it official. And look, I mean, this guy is a Muslim. He hates America, says America is a racist nation, by the way.
Oh, Abdul, not a big fan of the US of A. As a matter of fact, this is Abdul talking about how he's going to be running the race. Cut number 26, please.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (2:30)
We need Democrats who have the courage to stand up to the power brokers in our own party, let alone Trump and his goons.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:42)
We don't back down.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (2:46)
We don't back down.
We don't back down. With all due respect, if they go low, we don't go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out.

**Todd Starnes** (2:55)
Oh, spoken like a true Muslim. So there you go, Abdul El-Sayed. By the way, you know, these Democrats, they are a violent bunch. Have you noticed that? Have you picked up on that?
They love the violence. If they don't get their way. What is it Eric Holder said? When they go low, we go lower. We kick them and choke them and beat them. Barack Hussein Obama, if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun. Nobody bothered to ask all the campaign drill, except for one person. I was actually there and I did ask, what did he mean by that?
What did he mean? They would never answer that question. Well, now we know. I mean, they really do want to take it to all of you, all of you conservatives out there. So anyway, a lot of people very concerned. Oh, Karl Rove. You know, rarely do I agree with old Karl and his whiteboard, but he's got a good point here about Abdul El-Sayed and the people that he associates with. Cut 19, please.

**Karl Rove** (3:57)
But how did he close his campaign? It's very insightful. He spent the day campaigning with Hassan Piker, who said, America deserved 9-11.
If you're worried about Medicare fraud, you ought to kill Senator Rick Scott, a former health care executive. He said the Hamas attack on Israel, an October 7th attack, was Israel's fault, and the use of rape by Hamas didn't, quote, didn't change the dynamic for him. And he then mocks, he has mocked congressman, Republican congressman, Dan Crenshaw of Texas, a decorated war hero who lost his eye in a firefight in Afghan, he mocked him by praising the guy who took his eye and tried to kill him. I mean, this is how El-Sayed, how left-wing and out of touch El-Sayed is with sort of working class, blue collar, middle America, Michiganders, in my opinion, why this is going to be an excellent shot for the Republican pickup if he wins, if El-Sayed wins the nomination tonight.

**Todd Starnes** (4:56)
Well, he did win the nomination last night, and now the Republicans in Michigan, and even the Democrats in Michigan, are going to have to make a pretty significant choice here. And one of the things that we've been seeing around the country is a depressed Republican turnout. That cannot happen. You folks in Michigan are going to have to step up to the plate here, and you're gonna have to put a stop to this nonsense. But again, it looks as though a radical Muslim who pals around with jihadists could be going to the US. Senate.

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