Abdul El-Sayed Mocks JD Vance, Slams Trump and Billionaires in Historic Senate Victory Speech | AC1G — Transcript

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1. 0:00[music]
2. 0:05[music]
3. 0:13[cheering]
4. 0:19[cheering]
5. 0:23>> Thank you.
6. 0:24[cheering]
7. 0:26All right, friends.
8. 0:27You know how we do.
9. 0:29Money out of?
10. 0:31Money in your?
11. 0:32Medicare for? [screaming]
12. 0:35Michigan.
13. 0:36WE DID IT.
14. 0:39[screaming]
15. 0:40[cheering]
16. 0:45[screaming]
17. 0:46MY NAME
18. 0:49IS ABDUL EL-SAYED.
19. 0:51[cheering]
20. 0:52[screaming]
21. 0:57And I am so proud and honored
22. 1:00to stand here as your senator elect from
23. 1:02the great state of Michigan. [cheering]
24. 1:09Up until right about now, you might have
25. 1:11noticed I always say
26. 1:13or God willing
27. 1:15whenever the outcome of this race was
28. 1:17mentioned.
29. 1:18But today, tonight, we can turn THAT
30. 1:21INTO A
31. 1:27[cheering]
32. 1:34[panting]
33. 1:39[screaming]
34. 1:40THIS
35. 1:43FOR THE FOR THE RIGHT-WING OPS, THAT
36. 1:45just means praise be to God.
37. 1:47All right.
38. 1:49This movement for money out of politics,
39. 1:51money in your pocket, and Medicare for
40. 1:53all, I I just want to thank you,
41. 1:55everybody who knocked the door, made a
42. 1:57call,
43. 1:58sent a dollar,
44. 2:00hosted a story,
45. 2:02and most importantly,
46. 2:04gave us your stake in democracy.
47. 2:08You took
48. 2:10you took a chance on the unlikeliest of
49. 2:12candidates.
50. 2:14So thank you.
51. 2:15This is all yours.
52. 2:22Michigan, I cannot wait to serve you
53. 2:24with the same big heartedness, open
54. 2:27mindedness, grit, and earnestness that
55. 2:29you've shown me.
56. 2:31You welcomed me to your homes,
57. 2:33your churches, your synagogues, your VFW
58. 2:35and Union Halls.
59. 2:37You shared moments of frustration and
60. 2:39sadness and vulnerability with me.
61. 2:41You gave me grace and strength
62. 2:44in my lowest moments.
63. 2:46And the hope and inspiration that
64. 2:48powered my best. I love you back.
65. 2:53And I hope that I can bring it all with
66. 2:55me.
67. 2:57I hope I can bring it all with me to
68. 2:58Washington in your service.
69. 3:02[cheering]
70. 3:03[screaming]
71. 3:05Thank you for your trust
72. 3:07and your belief
73. 3:08and your kindness.
74. 3:11I'm going to take it all with me. And I
75. 3:13hope to bring back the kind of
76. 3:14leadership that
77. 3:16more than earns it.
78. 3:18The last month has brought the stakes of
79. 3:19this election into sharp relief.
80. 3:23Ours, this beautiful movement was built
81. 3:26over the past year and a half
82. 3:27campaigning across Michigan's biggest
83. 3:28cities and its smallest towns.
84. 3:30We spoke of a brighter, a bigger, more
85. 3:32hopeful Michigan.
86. 3:34Theirs,
87. 3:35an astro turfed, corporate funded
88. 3:38advertising campaign
89. 3:40built to deceive and distract.
90. 3:49Rather than try to unite us to contend
91. 3:51with the crisis of gas or groceries, the
92. 3:54opposition decided to try to divide us.
93. 3:57At first,
94. 3:59they pointed to my name and my faith as
95. 4:01if to say, you know,
96. 4:02he's a little different.
97. 4:05And when it didn't work,
98. 4:06they tried to guilt me by association.
99. 4:09And when that didn't work, they went all
100. 4:11in on one of the ugliest campaigns we've
101. 4:13seen in our lifetimes.
102. 4:20They might have been pointing to my name
103. 4:22and my faith, but we all know that my
104. 4:24name and my faith aren't the reason you
105. 4:25can't afford your gas.
106. 4:27Not the reason you can't afford your
107. 4:29groceries.
108. 4:30Not the reason you can't see a doctor.
109. 4:33Now, as I was campaigning, some of you
110. 4:35would come up and ask me,
111. 4:39how come you don't hit back?
112. 4:41How come you don't call them racist or
113. 4:43hateful?
114. 4:45Because here's the thing, I didn't run
115. 4:47for myself.
116. 4:48And in truth,
117. 4:50they weren't targeting me.
118. 4:52They were just
119. 4:53weren't just attacking me.
120. 4:55They were targeting and attacking
121. 4:58you.
122. 5:00They were targeting and attacking the
123. 5:01very idea
124. 5:03of America.
125. 5:05See, they hate the idea of an America
126. 5:07big enough for anyone who looks a little
127. 5:09different or prays a little different or
128. 5:11whose family comes from a different part
129. 5:12of the world.
130. 5:14That
131. 5:15includes me, but it also includes anyone
132. 5:18and everyone who doesn't look like them,
133. 5:20pray like them, love like them, or isn't
134. 5:22rich like them.
135. 5:24So they turn this race into a simple
136. 5:25choice.
137. 5:27They want an America that is too small
138. 5:29for some of us. We know
139. 5:30that America is big enough for all of
140. 5:32us.
141. 5:34Big enough.
142. 5:36[cheering]
143. 5:37We're big enough to take on the crises
144. 5:39that we face. Day by day, Trump's
145. 5:41insults became uglier and coarser. But I
146. 5:44got to spend those days with you
147. 5:46learning about your struggles, your
148. 5:48hopes, and the things that inspire you.
149. 5:51A mom of two kids with a genetic lung
150. 5:54disease in East Jordan fighting the
151. 5:55system to make sure her kids don't lose
152. 5:57the meds that they rely on to stay
153. 5:59alive.
154. 6:01Her hope,
155. 6:02that they don't have to struggle with
156. 6:03health insurance like she has.
157. 6:05A grandma on the East side fighting to
158. 6:07make sure that the violence that took
159. 6:08her son doesn't take her grandson too.
160. 6:11Her hope?
161. 6:13In America where boys get to grow up.
162. 6:16I met Josh, the UAW auto worker fighting
163. 6:19the corporate bosses who hadn't raised
164. 6:21their wages in two decades
165. 6:23despite billions in profit.
166. 6:25And they won that fight.
167. 6:27His hope?
168. 6:28In America where every single worker
169. 6:31gets the right to a union.
170. 6:37I met a small business owner fighting to
171. 6:39make sure that a another heart attack
172. 6:41doesn't take food off the table for his
173. 6:4330 employees or their families.
174. 6:45His hope?
175. 6:46That his workers don't have to worry
176. 6:48about how they'll feed their families.
177. 6:51See, I didn't get into this to defend
178. 6:52myself. No, I got into it because their
179. 6:54fights are my fight and their hopes are
180. 6:56all of our hopes.
181. 6:58We don't do this work for ourselves. We
182. 7:00do this work for each other.
183. 7:02To defend us all from another
184. 7:03generation's youth, treasure, and
185. 7:05opportunity squandered at the altar of
186. 7:08endless war.
187. 7:10To defend us all from corporate
188. 7:11oligarchs who bought and sold our
189. 7:13government to rig the system against us.
190. 7:15To defend us all from a healthcare
191. 7:17system more interested in monetizing our
192. 7:19illness than healing our bodies and
193. 7:21minds.
194. 7:22To defend us all from air too putrid to
195. 7:25breathe and water
196. 7:28too putrid to drink.
197. 7:30To defend us all from losing our voting
198. 7:31or our reproductive or our human rights.
199. 7:34See, I
200. 7:35I ran.
201. 7:36[cheering]
202. 7:38To defend us all from politicians who
203. 7:40want to divide us rather than movements
204. 7:42that work to dignify us.
205. 7:44Across our primary and general election
206. 7:46campaigns, they spent over get this $350
207. 7:50million trying to beat us.
208. 7:54That is a record here in Michigan. $70
209. 7:57million alone in the primary funded by
210. 7:59all the same cats who funded the general
211. 8:01election and that's a record anywhere in
212. 8:04this country.
213. 8:06But
214. 8:08y'all, Michigan, we built something
215. 8:10bigger than a bank account.
216. 8:12We built a movement.
217. 8:15Government of the people, by the people,
218. 8:17and for the people. [cheering]
219. 8:19We showed that in a battle between the
220. 8:21money and the many, that the many really
221. 8:23can win.
222. 8:27And so to all the kids who watched this
223. 8:30last month, to all the parents who
224. 8:32struggled to explain why the president
225. 8:33openly mocks someone for their name or
226. 8:35how they pray,
227. 8:37let them know tomorrow
228. 8:39that the bad guys lost.
229. 8:42[cheering]
230. 8:47Let them know
231. 8:48[screaming]
232. 8:53I want you to let them know.
233. 8:55Let them know that we together fighting
234. 8:57for something bigger, we won.
235. 9:01[cheering]
236. 9:02So Mike,
237. 9:03enjoy your retirement.
238. 9:06[screaming]
239. 9:08I know you got a house in Florida and
240. 9:09two yachts.
241. 9:12[cheering]
242. 9:12See, you chose hate
243. 9:14and Michigan chose hope.
244. 9:19May we never have to see the likes of
245. 9:21you in this state again.
246. 9:23[cheering]
247. 9:26JD
248. 9:34There is this delicious irony
249. 9:37in the fact that you're constitutionally
250. 9:39obligated to swear me in in January.
251. 9:48[cheering]
252. 9:49So you know what that means?
253. 9:52Wolverine one, Buckeye zero. [screaming]
254. 9:56[cheering]
255. 10:01Donald,
256. 10:03look, I I know you you struggled with my
257. 10:05name.
258. 10:06So after JD swears me in in January, you
259. 10:09could just go on and call me Senator.
260. 10:11[screaming]
261. 10:11[cheering]
262. 10:16To the super packs and special interests
263. 10:18who tried to beat us, we are coming for
264. 10:20your system of politics.
265. 10:23To AIPAC
266. 10:24[cheering] who spent $42 million against
267. 10:26us, thank you for giving me the
268. 10:28opportunity to beat you twice.
269. 10:34And I want to say something here. See,
270. 10:36they try to call you hateful
271. 10:38if you believe that Palestinian kids
272. 10:41should get to grow up in the land of
273. 10:42their forefathers
274. 10:44without [cheering] being murdered by our
275. 10:46tax dollars.
276. 10:48[screaming]
277. 10:49If you believe in equal rights to peace,
278. 10:52dignity, and self-determination, that's
279. 10:54not hate. It's love.
280. 10:56[cheering]
281. 10:58Michiganders, we want our taxes spent
282. 11:00here for schools here and healthcare
283. 11:02here and infrastructure here.
284. 11:05We don't want our money sent to do
285. 11:06apartheid or GENOCIDE OR WAR.
286. 11:12[cheering] MICHIGANDERS believe in
287. 11:13Michigan and I believe in Michiganders,
288. 11:16and I am so honored that Michiganders
289. 11:18believed in me. See, you you took a bet
290. 11:20on the least likely of candidates. I'm
291. 11:22not a politician. I'm a doctor with an
292. 11:2411-letter first name.
293. 11:27They told us they told us when I when I
294. 11:29when I started this campaign, there was
295. 11:30no way to beat the money. They told us
296. 11:33that someone with a name and my story,
297. 11:36a Muslim, was unelectable.
298. 11:39Let alone in a statewide Senate race in
299. 11:42Michigan.
300. 11:43They told us that old-fashioned politics
301. 11:46was dead, that traveling the state to
302. 11:48have real conversations with real people
303. 11:49in real places was a fool's errand. They
304. 11:51told us that the establishment was too
305. 11:53strong, that DC was going to dictate who
306. 11:56won and who lost, that Washington and
307. 11:58its special interests didn't want us.
308. 12:00They told us that when all the votes had
309. 12:01been counted on August 4th and then
310. 12:03again on November 3rd, it would have