{"id":2634139,"date":"2026-07-23T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialists-bernie-and-aoc-campaigned-for-michigan-dem-and-someone-cashed-in-selling-merch\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:50:18","slug":"socialists-bernie-and-aoc-campaigned-for-michigan-dem-and-someone-cashed-in-selling-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialists-bernie-and-aoc-campaigned-for-michigan-dem-and-someone-cashed-in-selling-merch\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists Bernie and AOC Campaigned for Michigan Dem, And Someone Cashed In Selling Merch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocialists-bernie-and-aoc-campaigned-for-michigan-dem-and-someone-cashed-in-selling-merch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2634139&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This article discusses a rally held in Michigan where socialists aimed to persuade residents that a candidate with socialist leanings has a chance to win a Senate seat.Notable figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared alongside abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic hopeful with ties to far-left endorsements. The event emphasized themes of populism and opposition to economic inequality, with Sanders criticizing the influence of billionaires on politics. The article also highlights demonstrations of capitalism through merchandise sales at the rally,including items made in the global south,and critiques El-Sayed&#8217;s policies and personal background,such as his support for Medicare-for-All and his wealth within the top 1%.It concludes with reflections on the implications of socialist policies and the contrast between grassroots entrepreneurship and systemic issues linked to global labor exploitation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, socialists united in Michigan to convince residents of a swing state that another borderline socialist really can win a Senate seat there.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, meanwhile, merch vendors served as proof positive that capitalism remains undefeated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/michiganadvance.com\/2026\/07\/19\/sanders-ocasio-cortez-make-electability-case-for-el-sayed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan Advance<\/a>, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York were in Lansing and then Grand Rapids with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-walks-off-rally-stage-early-avoid-potentially-damaging-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abdul El-Sayed<\/a>, a former Wayne County health official who is locked in a tight race for the Democratic nomination to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Gary Peters.<\/p>\n<p>Peters has endorsed U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, who\u2019s a liberal but still somewhere within the window of sanity. El-Sayed, meanwhile, is the type of person who not only takes endorsements from far-left streamer Hasan Piker (he of \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/hasan-piker-draws-fresh-scrutiny-203042552.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fame<\/a>) but <em>campaigns<\/em> with him, as well.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed, you may not be surprised, has what the Michigan Advance politely called \u201cquestions of electability\u201d in the general. Sanders, meanwhile, framed the visit as part of a populist revolution against what he called \u201cthe billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Grand Rapids, Michigan: Great rally. Another standing room only crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaires got the money. We got the momentum and the people. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AbdulElSayed?\">@AbdulElSayed<\/a> is going to win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/80ZvXh6BKF\">pic.twitter.com\/80ZvXh6BKF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/2079020279389388935?\">July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe billionaires got the money. We got the momentum and the people,\u201d Sanders said, along with a short clip from the rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a reason why the whole country is watching this race. In fact, people all over the world are watching what\u2019s happening here in the state of Michigan,\u201d Sanders said at the Lansing event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for that is, that in a time when we have more wealth and more inequality than we have ever had in the history of this country, at a time when fewer people, a handful of people, have never held so much wealth and power in the history of this country, people all over America and the world are asking: Is democracy alive and well in America?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr will a handful of billionaires and their super PACs be able to buy this election?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was unaware that Haley Stevens was a billionaire. But you have to start somewhere, and Congress isn\u2019t a bad place to start. Just ask Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>You know what\u2019s a better place to start? Entrepreneurship. Which, as it turns out, even people at a rally for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/voters-backing-democratic-socialists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lazy socialists<\/a> can understand:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ppl are selling Mamdani merch in Lansing, MI ahead of El-Sayed, Bernie, AOC rally <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BjkjbtWNH5\">pic.twitter.com\/BjkjbtWNH5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/2078854020639101194?\">July 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I don\u2019t think that those \u201cAOC!\u201d or \u201cEat the Rich\u201d hats were freebies, like the socialists promise everything will be if you let them take over. To be fair, they were probably competitively priced, which is also what socialist goods never are.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for that was exploiting cheap labor from what lefties love referring to as \u201cthe global south.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Made in Haiti. Being sold outside the Abdul \/ Bernie rally in Detroit Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8TEyNWfxU0\">pic.twitter.com\/8TEyNWfxU0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lon Johnson (@LonJohnson48226) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LonJohnson48226\/status\/2079186508158754963?\">July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, Haiti. Well, you\u2019ve got to make a living somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily, El-Sayed is within the state\u2019s top 1 percent in earnings, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/socialist-backed-dem-who-ripped-wealthy-cracks-states-top-1-tax-returns-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, and he supports Medicare-for-All while his wife\u2019s psychiatry practice doesn\u2019t actually take Medicare:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Abdul El-Sayed supports a single-payer, \u201cMedicare for All\u201d healthcare system that would cover every American \u201cfrom cradle to grave.\u201d His wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, doesn\u2019t accept Medicare or any other insurance. She also appears to have scrubbed a portion of the \u201cFrequently\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PjmEvsarXu\">pic.twitter.com\/PjmEvsarXu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/2076661976952864920?\">July 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019ll be the people outside the event who\u2019ll learn the greatest lesson in what El-Sayed\u2019s policies will visit upon them. They did the work, they put up the risk, and they\u2019ll have their money confiscated by grifters.<\/p>\n<p>If the people <em>inside<\/em> the event have their way, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/reminder-nicaraguan-socialist-leader-eliminates-elections-never-forget-bernie-sanders-praising-offering-pr-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it\u2019ll already be too late<\/a>: They\u2019ll be seizing the means of T-shirt production posthaste.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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