{"id":2641257,"date":"2026-08-06T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abdul-el-sayed-responds-to-trumps-criticism-the-man-cant-stay-on-focus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T12:33:04","slug":"abdul-el-sayed-responds-to-trumps-criticism-the-man-cant-stay-on-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abdul-el-sayed-responds-to-trumps-criticism-the-man-cant-stay-on-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdul el Sayed responds to Trump&#8217;s criticism: &#8216;The man can&#8217;t stay on focus&#8217;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fabdul-el-sayed-responds-to-trumps-criticism-the-man-cant-stay-on-focus%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=2641257&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>Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed responded strongly too President Donald Trump&#8217;s attacks following his primary victory. Trump criticized el Sayed during a speech, calling him a communist and accusing him of anti-Semitism, which el Sayed dismissed as distractions from urgent economic issues like affordability and rising gas prices. El Sayed sarcastically thanked Trump for calling him a &#8220;lovely gentleman&#8221; and criticized the president for focusing on him instead of addressing economic relief measures amid a crisis. Trump also falsely claimed that el Sayed hates Jews and Israel, intensifying the personal attack. The article notes that el Sayed narrowly defeated establishment-backed candidate Rep. Haley Stevens, a result that some Republicans see as a sign of waning Democratic enthusiasm for the progressive candidate supported by the Democratic Socialists of America.  <\/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\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Michigan Senate nominee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abdul-el-sayed\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"23138\">Abdul el Sayed<\/a> hit back at President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> after he targeted him directly, saying the president couldn\u2019t \u201cstay on focus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After el Sayed won the Tuesday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"655\">Michigan<\/a> Senate primary, Trump and the Republicans have turned their sights against the progressive Democrat, with Trump unleashing on him in a Wednesday speech. Responding to Trump\u2019s many criticisms in an interview with CNN, el Sayed began by sarcastically thanking the president for calling him a \u201clovely gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4677244\/abdul-el-sayed-responds-trump-criticism-michigan-senate-race\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Abdul el Sayed responds to Trump\u2019s criticism: \u2018The man can\u2019t stay on focus\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4676997\/abdul-el-sayed-reunite-democrats-keep-michigan-blue\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Abdul el Sayed won the progressive fight. Now he must reunite Democrats to keep Michigan blue<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4677118\/shades-of-2006-midterm-elections-2026\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Shades of 2006? What this election does, and doesn\u2019t, have in common with Democratic wave 20 years ago<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the response that they have,\u201d he said. \u201cFirst, look at the background: It says no tax on tips. The man can\u2019t stay on focus. That\u2019s like the one thing that he did to offer any economic relief. But instead of that, he\u2019s more focused on me and what I\u2019m going to do while we\u2019re living through an affordability crisis that is generational.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are paying nearly $5 in gas because of a war he started, and half the time, if he\u2019s not talking about me, he\u2019s talking about the drapes in his ballroom,\u201d Sayed continued. \u201cSo, at the end of the day, I invite the president to focus on what I\u2019m saying. I want to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump laid into his attacks against Sayed in a speech at Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas on Wednesday, describing him as a communist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I watch Abdul, he\u2019s full of s***,\u201d the president said. \u201cWhat they\u2019re trying to do, in fact, they want to skip socialism. They want to go right down to the bottom of the barrel. That\u2019s communism. They want it to be a communist country. We\u2019re not letting them have it as a communist country, not even for a minute, not even for a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aiming at a key sensitivity of Democrats that partially defined the Democratic Senate primary, he then accused el Sayed of antisemitism in harsh terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4677011\/trump-abdul-el-sayed-remark-las-vegas\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4677011\/trump-abdul-el-sayed-remark-las-vegas\/\">TRUMP SAYS ABDUL EL SAYED IS \u2018FULL OF S***\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis guy hates Jews. Somebody said, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s a little strong.\u2019 No, he hates Jews, and he hates Israel. Abdul el Sayed,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t love Israel. He doesn\u2019t love Jewish people. He hates them. He hates them with a passion that burns in his heart, and there\u2019s not a fricking thing he can do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Trump pointed out, el Sayed defeated the establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) by a narrower margin than anticipated, something Republicans hope indicates decreased Democratic enthusiasm for the new candidate heavily favored by the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Sayed Responds to Trump\u2019s Attacks After Michigan Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2641258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-s7jsbi9ni-1786015143167-e1786017661392.jpg?1786003287&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[77374,7375,3896,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2641257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-abdul-el-sayed","tag-criticism","tag-debate","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-s7jsbi9ni-1786015143167-e1786017661392.jpg?1786003287&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641260,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641257\/revisions\/2641260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}