A controversial progressive Democrat who has campaigned with high-profile socialists and is running to be the state's next U.S.senator from Michigan responded after hidden videos on his YouTube channel trashing the Second Amendment resurfaced."Abdul respects the Second Amendment, and also believes that access to healthcare is a right," Abdul El-Sayed spokeswoman Roxie Richner told Fox News Digital when reached for comment about comments made in the now-secret videos."What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?" he said in a YouTube video posted on April 6, 2023.Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate for U.S.
Senate in Michigan, speaks before Sen.Bernie Sanders takes the stage at Mumford High School on May 3, 2026, in Detroit, Mich.
Sanders is visiting the Midwest on his Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here tour.(Getty Images)He claimed altruism in the proposal, saying more people would live.
In that video, El-Sayed said that stripping Second Amendment rights and implementing a right to healthcare policy would lead to "fewer people dying by gun and more people living because they have health care."MICHIGAN SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED DODGES QUESTION ON WHETHER HE STILL SUPPORTS DEFUNDING THE POLICEYouTube offers a feature to hide videos previously posted publicly without deleting them.Though the hidden videos can't be viewed, rough transcripts can be found on an internet archive site first revealed by CNN in a Monday report.The outlet reports that El-Sayed hid about 100 videos before launching his Senate campaign.In one video from May 26, 2022, the transcript of which was viewed by Fox News Digital, El-Sayed made the argument that the Second Amendment does not apply to individual Americans, and only applies to a regulated militia.
He claimed that the stipulation written in the key constitutional right "couches the entire idea of not infringing on the right to bear ...