Abdul El-Sayed, the radical DSA type candidate running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, went on the Jesse Watters show on FOX News tonight. It did not go well for him.
Watters kept attempting to ask El-Sayed legitimate questions and instead of answering, he just kept trying to filibuster his way through it and offer his own campaign talking points.
If the goal here was to make El-Sayed seem more appealing as a candidate, it was a failure.
Transcript via Overton News:
JESSE WATTERS: “I don’t want you guys to blow the country up. Do you know how much the federal budget is now?”
ABDUL EL-SAYED: “No. Neither do I. Pete Hegseth –”
JESSE WATTERS: “Answer the question. Do you know what the federal budget is for?”
ABDUL EL-SAYED: “I just want to talk about this. You want to talk about budgets. I’m happy to do that. The guy who used to work on your channel, I think he was the sixth host on that five. He wanted to raise our military budget to $1.5 trillion, and you don’t seem to be upset about that. So we can fight we don’t know how to get out of to raise our gas prices five dollars a gallon? That doesn’t make sense to me, Jesse.”
From there the ad hominens started coming in.
JESSE WATTERS “I have a feeling, Abdul, you don’t even know how much money the government spends every year. Do you know?”
ABDUL EL-SAYED: “Look, the question, Jesse, to me –”
JESSE WATTERS: “Alright, so you don’t know. Let me tell you what it is. It’s $7 trillion a year, and your plan to take over the health care system is four trillion.”
ABDUL-EL SAYED: “To exactly your point –”
JESSE WATTERS: “I’m not very good at math, I don’t think you’re very good at math either. Go ahead.”
ABDUL EL-SAYED: “Clearly. Clearly you don’t. And you don’t seem to care, but I don’t think most Americans want to spend that much money on military escapades so that the folks stranded on the USS Abraham Lincoln can even get a sausage for breakfast, because I just think that we could do a whole lot better with our money. And I think that’s where you and I –”
JESSE WATTERS: “Yeah, I disagree. I think if you spend $4 trillion, everything else is going to get really expensive.”
Here’s the video:
Abdul El-Sayed doesn’t even know what the federal budget is, yet he wants to spend 4 TRILLION DOLLARS on medicare-for-all.
JESSE WATTERS: “I don’t want you guys to blow the country up. Do you know how much the federal budget is now?”
ABDUL EL-SAYED: “No. Neither do I. Pete… pic.twitter.com/AGFXNv8JT0
— Overton (@overton_news) August 25, 2026
This moment about the transing of kids was rather surreal:
Watters: “Do you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?”
El-Sayed: “Are you circumcised?”
Watters: “Circumcision is different than castration.” pic.twitter.com/Ft4D7cwzfa
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 25, 2026
Democrats are probably going to regret nominating this man for the Senate.
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