{"id":2644373,"date":"2026-08-13T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpodcast-michigan-socialist-senate-candidate-el-sayed-wants-to-tweak-the-second-amendment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:28:11","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpodcast-michigan-socialist-senate-candidate-el-sayed-wants-to-tweak-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpodcast-michigan-socialist-senate-candidate-el-sayed-wants-to-tweak-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Socialist El-Sayed Wants To &#8216;Tweak&#8217; Second Amendment"},"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\">16<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignpodcast-michigan-socialist-senate-candidate-el-sayed-wants-to-tweak-the-second-amendment%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=2644373&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>Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-persist-with-violent-rhetoric-after-trump-shooting\/\" title=\"...ists persist with violent rhetoric after Trump ...\">made controversial statements linking<\/a> the Nashville school shooting to gun rights and political media narratives rather than trans issues. In a deleted podcast, he emphasized that the incident was primarily a gun problem, criticizing how right-wing media focused on the shooter\u2019s trans identity instead of the firearms. The shooter, Audrey Hale, was a trans-identified individual who targeted the Covenant School, resulting in six deaths, including children, and left behind a manifesto filled with leftist and violent ideas.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed dismissed claims that trans violence played a role in such attacks, citing research suggesting transgender individuals are overrepresented in mass shootings. He also suggested that the Second Amendment could be \u201ctweaked\u201d to include healthcare rights,linking access to guns and healthcare as major issues. Additionally, he blamed the Nashville attack on grievances against the Christian school, not trans identities, and argued that the real issue is America\u2019s gun accessibility, not trans issues.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate has attempted to distance himself from some of his more radical past statements by deleting videos, but some comments and positions remain accessible. Critics, including GOP figures like Sen. Tim Scott, argue that El-Sayed\u2019s radical views and inconsistencies make him unfit for Michigan, potentially aiding republican campaigns.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Michigan Democrats\u2019 newly anointed Senate candidate blamed gun rights and \u201cright-wing media\u201d for a 2023 mass shooting at a Nashville Christian school at the hands of a mentally disturbed woman pretending to be a man.<\/p>\n<p>In a now-deleted podcast in April 2023, Abdul El-Sayed claimed that the school shooting wasn\u2019t a \u201ctrans problem\u201d but \u201ca gun problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter this shooting in Tennessee, right-wing media wanted to talk about the identity of the shooter who happened to identify as trans,\u201d El-Sayed said during his opening monologue on the podcast, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/exclusive-abdul-el-sayed-blamed-nashville-christian-shooting-on-anti-trans-laws\">story<\/a> first reported by the Post Millennial.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/2087242787502645393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The far-left Senate candidate was referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/03\/manifesto-reveals-trans-identifying-nashville-shooters-disdain-for-christianity-obsession-with-racial-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audrey Hale<\/a>, the 28-year-old trans-identifying psychopath who stormed into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecovenantschool.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Covenant School<\/a>, a Christian elementary, on March 27, 2023 and fatally shot six people, including three third-graders. She was shot and killed by a responding police officer before she could take more innocent lives. <\/p>\n<p>Hale left behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/07\/us-news\/trans-nashville-school-shooter-audrey-hale-ranted-about-wanting-to-kill-all-the-white-kids-in-newly-revealed-diary-entries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cmanifesto\u201d<\/a> \u2014 multiple journals, in fact\u2014 filled with extreme leftist ideology, deranged entries laboring on her apparent white guilt and an urge to \u201ckill all the white kids,\u201d as well as plans laying out her deadly errand. <\/p>\n<p>How the PM obtained the audio from El-Sayed\u2019s \u201cThe Right to Have Healthcare!\u201d podcast is not clear from the story. <\/p>\n<p>The Federalist reached out to the campaign on Wednesday seeking clarification. As of publication, El-Sayed\u2019s press office has not responded to the request for comment. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018School Shootings Are Not A Trans Problem\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>His far-left positions on gun control may have played well in this month\u2019s Michigan Democratic Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">primary,<\/a> but they won\u2019t sit well with voters in a state where <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/state-rankings\/guns-per-capita\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one in every three households <\/a>owns a gun. Perhaps that\u2019s why El-Sayed has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/abdul-el-sayed-fireworks-police-videos.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scrubbed<\/a> so many of his old videos and social media posts. <\/p>\n<p>The socialism-supporting Democrat who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/michigan-senate-candidate-endorsed-aoc-bernie-sanders-insists-hes-not-socialist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doesn\u2019t like to be described as a socialist<\/a> reportedly goes on to say in the now-deleted podcast that, \u201cSchool shootings are not a trans problem, school shootings are a gun problem and [conservatives] are trying to dissuade us from talking about the real issue here, which is too often it\u2019s the case that almost anyone can get any gun anytime and take it anywhere, like a school.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>First of all, there is a growing trans violence problem, much more so than the accomplice media likes to acknowledge. As John R. Lott Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/26\/the-real-rate-of-transgender-violence-is-much-worse-than-the-media-wants-to-admit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> earlier this year in The Federalist, \u201cTransgender-identifying shooters commit mass public shootings and active shootings at rates far above their share of the population. In 2024, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-rate-of-transgender-violence-is-much-worse-than-the-media-wants-to-admit\/\" title=\"Rate Of Transgender Violence Is Much Worse Than Media Admits\">transgender-identifying individuals accounted<\/a> for a share of active shooter attacks that was at least <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2026\/02\/transgender-shooters-commit-disproportionate-shares-of-mass-public-and-active-shooting-attacks-in-2024-at-least-12-times-their-share-of-the-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12 times larger than their share of the population<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And El-Sayed\u2019s myriad complaints against gun ownership are really just regurgitated talking points from the dubious gun-control lobby. But the Senate candidate seemed to take things a step further in another 2023 podcast when he insisted that the Second Amendment could use a \u201ctweak.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018A Sense of Resentment\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>On his <a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast-series\/america-dissected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>America Dissected<\/em> podcast,<\/a> the doctor-turned-politician discussed what he titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/poddtoppen.se\/podcast\/1480634141\/america-dissected\/the-contagion-of-liberty-with-prof-andrew-wehrman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Contagion of Liberty.\u201d<\/a> He noted the shootings at the Nashville elementary school, which had occurred just days before. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right. Another elementary school got shot up this week. This time it was a Christian private school in Tennessee where a shooter killed three adults and three children, all under nine years old,\u201d he says, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast\/the-contagion-of-liberty-with-prof-andrew-wehrman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the transcript<\/a>. The audio remains online.  <\/p>\n<p>He then goes on to again hammer \u201cright-wing media,\u201d which he asserts \u201chave chosen to concentrate on the shooter, a former student at the school who identified as trans, arguing that the attack was some kind of broader attack in an escalating battle between trans people and Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed is wrong again, at least as the Covenant Killer is concerned. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterterrorismgroup.com\/post\/behavioral-threat-assessment-of-audrey-elizabeth-hale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assessment <\/a>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterterrorismgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Counterterrorism Group,<\/a> which specializes in detecting, deterring and defeating terrorism, finds that it is \u201calmost certain\u201d that the motivation of the person of interest \u2014 Hale \u2014 \u201cwas a sense of resentment for attending this school.\u201d Hale had been enrolled at Covenant years before. Her manifesto details her animus for the people involved in the private Christian elementary school. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOI likely had grievances towards the Christian institution, its teachings, and the perceived religious narrative opposing freedom of gender identity,\u201d the assessment states. \u201cThis attack highlights the importance of monitoring individuals with grievances over their religious school experience, especially those of LGBTQA+ individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the identity politics-steeped El-Sayed lays the blame for the murder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecovenantschool.com\/in-remembrance-of-march-27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three white children<\/a> and the three Covenant employees at the feet of \u201can epidemic of gun violence in this country,\u201d which \u201chas nothing to do with trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has everything to do with the unfettered access to guns,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018If I Could Tweak One Thing\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Then, as so many of his socialist friends are fond of doing, the Michigan Senate candidate goes on to \u201cImagine what America might be if we took access to health care as seriously as some people take access to guns.\u201d He\u2019s a huge proponent of single-payer healthcare. Government-run healthcare. In fact, he wrote the book on <a href=\"https:\/\/abdulforsenate.com\/medicare-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Medicare for All<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I could tweak one thing about the Constitution, it would be two words in the Second Amendment from the right to bear arms to the right to have health care,\u201d he said. \u201cGuns take a lot of lives in America. Health care, health care saves them.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Just Wrong for Michigan\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>El-Sayed has attempted to walk back many of his more controversial \u2014 or politically difficult \u2014 radical statements from the past. CNN and other corporate media outlets are reporting that the newly minted Democrat nominee for Senate in swing state Michigan had deleted dozens of old video that could bite him in November\u2019s general election. But many of the comments, like his call to \u201ctweak\u201d the Second Amendment, live on. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said resurfaced comments from far-left candidates are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6019458-scott-claims-el-sayed-helps-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">making it easier<\/a>\u201d for GOP candidates this election cycle. In short, crazy isn\u2019t faring so well in the general election season. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m certain that Abdul El-Sayed is making it easier. Because he is inconsistent with Michiganders of either side of the aisle,\u201d Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/08\/09\/politics\/video\/sen-tim-scott-el-sayed-making-it-easier-for-gop-to-win-vrtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told CNN\u2019s Manu Raju<\/a> over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the way, he\u2019s someone who wants to defund police, defund ICE, who wants to abolish our concept of a border,\u201d he added. \u201cHe\u2019s just wrong for Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El-Sayed blames guns, media for Nashville school shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2644374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-13-at-1.45.16-AM-1024x574.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[82381,50385,4601,32209,14097],"class_list":["post-2644373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-el-sayed-2","tag-gun-control-2","tag-michigan","tag-second-amendment","tag-socialist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-13-at-1.45.16-AM-1024x574.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644373","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644379,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644373\/revisions\/2644379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}