{"id":63352,"date":"2026-03-31T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63352"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:31:32","slug":"listen-to-what-your-candidates-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63352","title":{"rendered":"Listen To What Your Candidates Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Scott Johnson at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2026\/03\/sad-in-dearborn.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Power Line Blog<\/a> posted an article about a recent statement by Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The story of the day is uncomfortably close to a literal \u201cbomshell.\u201d Alana Goodman has obtained a copy of what I call the Sad in Dearborn tapes. They derive from Michigan\u2019s radical left-wing Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Alana\u2019s story is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/there-are-a-lot-of-people-in-dearborn-who-are-sad-democratic-senate-hopeful-abdul-el-sayed-said-he-needed-to-stay-silent-on-khamenei-killing-because-many-of-michigans-muslim-voters\/\">\u201c\u2018There Are a Lot of People in Dearborn Who Are Sad\u2019: Democratic Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Said He Needed To Stay Silent on Khamenei Killing Because Many of Michigan\u2019s Muslim Voters \u2018Are Sad.\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Alana reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Michigan\u2019s left-wing Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2014or taking any public position on it at all\u2014because \u201cthere are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad\u201d about his death, according to audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But, ah, the uses of Jeffrey Epstein:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>If reporters pressed him to take a position, he said, he would change the subject to Donald Trump\u2019s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cI\u2019m just gonna go straight to pedophilia, frankly,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cI\u2019ll just be like, \u2018Pedophile president decides that he doesn\u2019t like the front page news, so he decides to take us into another war.&#8217;\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also notes that the El-Sayed campaign is trying to keep the recording suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Here in one story we see the trouble with immigration that has transformed Dearborn into what it is today. We see the deep trouble with the Democratic Party today. We also see the Democrats\u2019 use of Jeffrey Epstein for pretextual purposes. Cry Jeffrey Epstein!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note the real purpose of mentioning Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Read the whole thing <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/there-are-a-lot-of-people-in-dearborn-who-are-sad-democratic-senate-hopeful-abdul-el-sayed-said-he-needed-to-stay-silent-on-khamenei-killing-because-many-of-michigans-muslim-voters\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Quotable quote: \u201c\u2018I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today. So, like, I just don\u2019t want to comment on Khamenei at all. Like, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth even touching that,\u2019 El-Sayed told his campaign team.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because assimilation is no longer a part of immigration, Dearborn would have no problem electing a candidate that supported Khamenei. It&#8217;s time to send people who choose not to assimilate to a country where they are more compatible with the local culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog posted an article about a recent statement by Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. The article reports: The story of the day is uncomfortably close to a literal \u201cbomshell.\u201d Alana Goodman has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[682,9643,19296,8203,5276],"class_list":["post-63352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ali-khamenei","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-michigan-democrat-senate-candidate-abdul-el-sayed","tag-power-line-blog","tag-scott-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63373,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63352\/revisions\/63373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}