Abdul El‑Sayed

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354 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed Is “Not a Burn-It-Down Kind” of Candidate · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

It's just the nature of what this system is and how our politics are transacted in soundbites. matched

So I empathize entirely. matched

And I'll tell you, this time around, I do think that we're operating in a very different moment than he was operating in because of the ubiquity of social media. matched

And so I can move a lot more... matched

of myself and the full dynamism of myself to tell my whole story. matched

And this time when I decided to run, there's still always this question of like, how mad on behalf of other people can I be? matched

I'll be honest with you. matched

I'm pretty damn pissed off on behalf of other people. matched

I went to medical school because I wanted to be a doctor only to realize that our healthcare system was actively, actively pushing out the people I wanted to take care of. matched

And I'll be honest with you, it's like very few people say they got radicalized in med school. matched

But like when I watched our healthcare system, like on the ninth floor of the extremely prestigious hospital that I was training in, we had people playing pianos for foreign dignitaries coming to get heart procedures. matched

And then in the basement, watching indigent New Yorkers get... matched

in effect, pushed out of the healthcare system before they got the care they needed, it really changed the way I thought about our system. matched

And this woman came up to me on this campaign trail this time. matched

She's a lovely older white woman. matched

And we were in mid-Michigan somewhere. matched

And she pulls me aside. matched

She's like, you know why I like you? matched

I was like, why? matched

She's like, well, because you're like the family dog. matched

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