{"id":100515,"date":"2026-08-25T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/abdul-el-sayed-debates-fncs-jesse-watters-on-ice-green-new-deal-taxes-healthcare-inflation-iran-sharia-law\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:42:03","slug":"abdul-el-sayed-debates-fncs-jesse-watters-on-ice-green-new-deal-taxes-healthcare-inflation-iran-sharia-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/abdul-el-sayed-debates-fncs-jesse-watters-on-ice-green-new-deal-taxes-healthcare-inflation-iran-sharia-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdul El Sayed Debates FNC&#8217;s Jesse Watters on ICE, Green New Deal, Taxes, Healthcare, Inflation, Iran, Sharia Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Fox News host Jesse Watters hosted Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed about his positions on taxes, healthcare, the war with Iran, gender issues, and more.  &#8220;We have one goal right now, to win Michigan, and given the fact my opponent is Mike Rogers, who you agree is a beta, it probably shouldn&#8217;t be very hard,&#8221; El-Sayed said.   <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abdul El-Sayed loses it after being pressed over men in women&#39;s sports:<\/p>\n<p>WATTERS: Boys playing in girls&#8217; sports. What about that?<\/p>\n<p>EL-SAYED: You have not asked me one time about the issues people care about.<\/p>\n<p>WATTERS: &#8220;We spent the whole interview talking about that.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MknSQ4EkRY\">pic.twitter.com\/MknSQ4EkRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/2092055259401101667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  &#8220;You have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan,&#8221; El-Sayed told Watters. &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to talk about gas prices. You don&#8217;t want to talk about groceries. You don&#8217;t want to talk about health care. You don&#8217;t want to talk about the stupid trade war.&#8221;  &#8220;You want to bring up all this culture war,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m out here trying to take on the health care crisis and Big Pharma, and you&#8217;re asking me about who gets to play what sports. It&#8217;s silly.&#8221;  &#8220;I want to have a conversation about the issues that matter. Let&#8217;s talk about the things that people actually are talking about.&#8221;  &#8220;Billionaires don&#8217;t make their money off of their labor,&#8221; El-Sayed said about his support for wealth taxes. &#8220;That&#8217;s not the fruits of your labor. That&#8217;s just the fruits of your money making money.&#8221;  &#8220;If we tax you at 7%, you&#8217;re still going to make a cool $  30 million off your billion dollars.&#8221;   &#8220;I&#8217;m never going to defend the Iranian regime. But I am going to defend the idea that we probably shouldn&#8217;t be fighting wars we don&#8217;t know how to get out ofm&#8221;&#8221; he said about the Iran war.   <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATTERS: You said getting rid of Sharia law is white supremacy? Can you explain that one?<\/p>\n<p>EL-SAYED: Do you know what canon law is? <\/p>\n<p>WATTERS: Yeah, tell me.<\/p>\n<p>EL-SAYED: Canon law is Christian law. I don&#8217;t begrudge you your right to practice your faith as you choose. I don&#8217;t know\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wfBVtiF6Tm\">pic.twitter.com\/wfBVtiF6Tm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/townhallcom\/status\/2092061839886561697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  &#8220;Nobody is trying to push Sharia law on anyone else, just like I hope nobody is trying to push canon law on anybody else, because we live in an America where you should have the freedom of your religion<\" El-Sayed said. \"When people preemptively go out there and start preemptively passing laws to ban something that's not happening, what you're trying to do is target a very small community because they're different.\"  \n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">El-Sayed: Don&#39;t you think we should have a right to health care? Don&#39;t you think that would be a good thing in America?<\/p>\n<p>Watters: 75% of the country likes the health care coverage they have.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed: 75% of the country wants guaranteed health care through medicare for all.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p60ositUbz\">pic.twitter.com\/p60ositUbz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Acyn\/status\/2092046025565569062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watters: &#8220;Do you think it&#39;s okay for a parent to slash his kid&#39;s ding-a-ling off?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed: &#8220;Are you circumcised?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watters: &#8220;Circumcision is different than castration.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ft4D7cwzfa\">pic.twitter.com\/Ft4D7cwzfa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/2092048053670727850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/24\/abdul_el_sayed_debates_fncs_jesse_watters_on_healthcare_taxes.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Jesse Watters hosted Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed about his positions on taxes, healthcare, the war with Iran, gender issues, and more. &#8220;We have one goal right now, to win Michigan, and given the fact my opponent is Mike Rogers, who you agree is a beta, it probably shouldn&#8217;t be very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26151,30077,145,3737,22901,2439,12488,9046,261,22317,30384,9149,22318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}