EXPOSED: Abdul El-Sayed’s extreme socialist past, DSA ties prove he’s no ‘capitalist’

During his debate with Congresswoman Haley Stevens before winning the Democratic primary, El-Sayed said, "I am not a socialist, I am just a capitalist who understand how capitalism works," when he was asked about his economic policy. “The biggest threat to capitalism was never the idea of government regulation, it was always monopoly," he added at the time. The comments echo what he has said throughout his campaign: that he is a capitalist looking for more regulation to curb the excesses of a market economy.

However, in a post from 2019, Kat Brezler had a photo of her and El-Sayed. Brezler tagged the Senate candidate in the post and said, "[Linda Sarsour] says this is a pic of me and the newest member of @detroitdsa."

The Detroit DSA chapter commented in reaction to the post and said, "Welcome to the team comrade @AbdulElSayed!"

That same year, El-Sayed headlined a DSA fundraiser, according to Fox News. The event raised $10,000, and organizers called him a "longtime friend of the Detroit DSA." Between 2017 and 2020, he spoke at six events for the Democratic Socialists of America.

In a post from the Detroit DSA in 2017, the chapter said that they were asking questions of El-Sayed when he was running for governor and added, "We're gonna need a bigger room."

In another post from the Detroit DSA, El-Sayed reportedly signed their "bold demand to seize abandoned GM plants & convert them to green, public use."

"This is the courage & vision we need from our leaders to make the #GreenNewDeal a reality. Thank you Dr. El-Sayed! Onward!" the post said, which linked to El-Sayed's post, which has since been deleted. The Post Millennial identified several interactions between the DSA chapter and El-Sayed on X; however, many of his past posts have been deleted.

Another post from the DSA chapter in Detroit that appeared to be quoting El-Sayed said that the candidate is "on board for a #GreenNewDeal!" and "if you want to see Abdul at the rally let him know!" The post was made in January 2019, several months before he headlined the DSA event in October that year.

"Scrubbing his socialist history from social media won’t erase the fact that Abdul El-Sayed is funded by socialists, campaigns alongside fellow socialists like Hasan Piker, and supports socialist policies that would cost American families over $355,000," NRSC National Press Secretary Bernadette Breslin told The Post Millennial in response to the deleted posts.

El-Sayed has also been praised by DSA leadership. According to an undercover video obtained by the Midwesterner, DSA national co-chair Ashik Siddique praised him as a "viable" candidate in Michigan.

“I don’t think it’s any accident that in New York City, this Democratic Socialist politics is expressing with a large Muslim working-class population,” Siddique said in the video. "In Michigan, where you have somebody like Abdul El-Sayed being a viable candidate for Senate."

“Michigan has a large Arab and Palestinian and Bangladeshi population," he added. “So having these diaspora communities that experienced imperialism and being on the other side of capitalism where they’re kind of hyper-exploited and they’re now part of American society and are workers in the United States.”

DSA members have also canvassed for El-Sayed during his Senate campaign. According to City and State, around 50 DSA members flew out of New York to go campaign for El-Sayed as well as DSA-endorsed candidates such as Donavan McKinney, who won his primary in Michigan. El-Sayed's campaign has received over

El-Sayed has been endorsed by a number of far-left and socialist figures, such as Senator Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others. After winning the primary earlier this year, El-Sayed will now face off against Republican Mike Rogers for the seat vacated by incumbent Senator Gary Peters.