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Abdul El-Sayed: “For the better part of our country's history, we did not…”

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Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate

Published July 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 39:17

So I'm just saying that I do the thing that I say I'm going to do. I don't think ICE needs to exist For the better part of our country's history, we did not have an ICE. And I think we can do a much better job when it comes to immigration without one. And here's the last thing I just want to say about this. (39:17–39:22)

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“They [DTE] spend on 93% of the entire elected state legislature as well as most of our congresspeople.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 05:09-20:50
“Just last week, our friend here voted to send 3.3 billion of your tax dollars to a foreign government.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 05:44-05:52
“Our county ranked the number eight for medical debt nationwide, and we could eliminate that for a penny on the dollar.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 22:54-23:01
“We set aside $7 million to erase up to $700 million in medical debt.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 23:00-23:05
“30% of [kids] would get tested positive for needing glasses and wouldn't get a pair.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 23:06-23:11
“Rebuilt Detroit's health department, led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services.”
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“Put glasses on kids, took on corporate polluters, made sure that our kids weren't breathing the worst, coming out of smokestacks, and…”
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“It's about you deserving a politics that's not bought off by the same corporations picking your pocket at every single turn.”
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“DTE [is] building one of the largest hyperscale data centers in our state in ex parte approval.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 04:49-21:01
“I'm the only candidate in this race who doesn't take any money from corporations.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 05:13-05:17
“Rather than sending your money somewhere else to drop bombs on other people and their kids, we can keep that money here at home.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 05:35-05:41
“I'm the only candidate in this race who's never touched a dime of corporate PAC money.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 08:49-08:53
“They've set a record in this race to help elect my opponent because they know that she'll be a reliable vote, just like she took last week…”
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“We're being outspent in this race 12 to 1.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 13:11-13:14
“DTE is the biggest spender in our entire politics.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 20:41-20:45
“This is going to increase the load on our grid by more than twice now.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 21:04-21:09
“We just lost our power for five days in a row because of a mid-level storm.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 21:08-21:14
“I still have yet to see a plan from DTE about how they're going to improve our reliability while doubling more so the amount of electricity…”
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“We put optometrists on vans outside of school so that as soon as a kid got a positive test, they'd go out, get a full optometric exam, and…”
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“The biggest threat to capitalism was never the idea of government regulation. It was always monopoly.”
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“Government ought to be there to regulate on monopolies and oligopolies so that everybody can actually participate in an economy without…”
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“I'm grateful for the endorsement of the UAW and they endorse me because they understand that a pathway forward to bring back the…”
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“We need to ban stock buybacks.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 28:36-28:38
“Corporations will literally buy their own stock to artificially raise their stock price.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 28:39-28:45
“Unlike the stupid tariffs of Donald Trump, which is around the clock tariffs for everyone, I think that there's a place for targeted…”
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“We need to massively invest in being continuing to be the best place to make an internal combustion engine in the world and also to invest…”
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“The UAW has built the American automotive industry.”
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“The filibuster itself is anti Democrat.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 32:35-32:38
“We had an opportunity to break the filibuster.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 32:37-32:40
“We have the opportunity to get money out of politics, to take on Citizens United.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 33:01-33:06
“We have the opportunity to put money back in pockets by doing things like passing the Pro act.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 33:06-33:11
“We have the opportunity to start changing and enforcing our antitrust policies so a few corporations can't pick your pocket at every turn.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 33:12-33:20
“We have the opportunity to tax billionaires their wealth.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 33:19-33:23
“We have the opportunity to finally guarantee every single person in this country health care through Medicare for all.”
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“She's also voted to raise ICE funding four times.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 38:19-38:24
“I said that we need to abolish ICE.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 38:38-38:41
“ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 38:49-38:53
“I just also ran government agencies.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 40:06-40:09
“For most of our history, we didn't have [ICE]. We had INS, and they were targeted.”
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“ICE has become a tyrannical agency.”
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“We're fighting a war that's cost us billions of dollars.”
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“The same corporations who funded your campaign are raising rates on the things that they can't go without, like their power.”
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“There is this group called the Center for Democratic Priorities. They didn't exist until they popped up and started running ads for my…”
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“Every single dollar that DTE is spending is a down payment on knowing that they can raise your rates.”
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“Every single dollar that Blue Cross Blue Shield spends in this race is a down payment on raising your premium.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 45:31-45:36
“The American Federation of Teachers has endorsed me in this race.”
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“Right now we fund school buildings based on property tax.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 48:51-48:55
“The money that we should have to invest in our schools is being sent to foreign governments to destroy other people's schools instead of…”
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“We put air quality monitors all over Wayne county so folks can get real time information about the air that they're breathing.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 51:41-51:47
“Took on Marathon Petroleum, the biggest polluter and the most polluted zip code in the state.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 51:50-51:55
“Forced [Marathon Petroleum] to invest their own money to reduce emissions when they had wanted to increase them.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 51:54-51:58
“We need to get to 100% renewable energy.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 52:07-52:11
“We need and deserve guaranteed health care through Medicare for All.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 53:05-53:09
“On day one, I want to offer medical debt relief to everybody.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 53:42-53:46
“Poll after poll after poll has shown, despite what my colleague says, that I am the most competitive candidate to take on Mike Rogers.”
Democratic Senate candidates Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed full debate | Uploaded July 27, 2026 | 55:26-55:34
“I'm the only candidate in this race who does not take corporate money.”
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