Abdul El-Sayed pushes back in Fox News interview: ‘Not here to fight a culture war’

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, tangled with Fox News host Jesse Watters in an interview Monday, repeatedly pivoting from “culture war” questions to refocus on affordability in his state. “You want to bring up all this culture war,” El-Sayed told Watters during the 25-minute interview . “I’m not here to fight a culture war. I’m here to fight the affordability crisis that people are facing.” Watters pressed the nominee on several hot-button topics in the combative but largely jovial interview, including whether he supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Sharia law, gender reassignment surgery, and whether “men should play women’s sports.” On the ICE question, El-Sayed painted the department as brutal and ineffective. “You and I both know that we’ve, long before we ever had ICE, we had INS,” he said, referring to the agency that predate ICE, the U.S. They’re not asking me about immigration,” he said. Apparently, that’s what you want. So if you really want to bring that up, you can.

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