Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed remarked on whether he would consider running for president of the United States, during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.
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Host Kristen Welker closed her interview asking El-Sayed whether he believed America was "ready" to elect a Muslim candidate for president.
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America → close → president
"That's not a question I'm asking," El-Sayed answered.
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"I think Michigan is ready for a Muslim senator."
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Michigan → think → senator
Welker repeated the question, but El-Sayed continued to say the question was "irrelevant" and that Michigan was ready for a Muslim senator.
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Michigan → repeat → senator
"Okay, but you don't rule out the possibility that—?" Welker asked.
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"I have no intention of ever running for president.
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That is not a thing I've ever wanted to do," El-Sayed said.
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He continued, "I want to be a really great senator for my state.
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You know, someday, somewhere, somebody down the line decides to run, that would have been a really amazing thing to see how big America really is.
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America → know → line
But for right now, I really want to be the next senator from Michigan.
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That's what I’d like to be for a long time to come.
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I'm looking forward to serving out the next six years.
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I'm honored to get to do this.
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And look, America is a big place, and America has this incredible way of reminding us how big she really is.
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And that starts in Michigan."
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that → start → Michigan
During the interview, Welker also asked another question about a presidential run while referencing a reported comment made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., where she remarked, "If Abdul can win in Michigan, anybody can win anywhere.
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"If you lose Michigan, does that mean that a progressive like AOC can't win the White House in 2028?" Welker said.
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"Look, this is one seat in Michigan that has a lot more to do with our local issues in Michigan than it has to do with a national referendum," El-Sayed said.
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Fox News Digital reached out to NBC and El-Sayed's campaign for comment.
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El-Sayed's interview came after his Thursday debate with GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers in which Rogers brought up alleged ties between El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization.
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El-Sayed has repeatedly denied these ties.
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He also rejected the premise when asked by Welker.
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"No," he said, before claiming the allegation was based in Islamophobia.
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"It's truly shameful, but he has no ideas, he doesn't actually care about solving problems," El-Sayed said of Rogers.
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In a comment to Fox News Digital, Media Research Center President David Bozell criticized what he considered Welker's eagerness to consider El-Sayed a presidential candidate.
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"NBC took one look at Abdul El-Sayed and started planning the presidential library.
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Meet the Press skipped the vetting and went straight to measuring El-Sayed’s Oval Office drapes," Bozell said.
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