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Is Abdul El-Sayed a socialist?

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No. Abdul El-Sayed’s 2026 campaign for the U.S. Senate from Michigan was marked by a progressive platform, including calls for Medicare for all, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and campaign finance reform. He received support from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But unlike New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, he does not call himself a socialist. In a July 2026 interview with Politico he said, “I believe that we can have healthcare, that we can regulate on the biggest corporations in the world, that we can make it easier for you to make your first million rather than for Elon Musk to make a trillion. And that doesn’t make me a socialist. That just makes me somebody who wants government to work for people.”