'Barbarian in the White House': El-Sayed says Trump's policies hitting Americans where it hurts

WASHINGTON, DC: Michigan Democratic nominee for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed fired back at the GOP’s barbarian comments, arguing that the real "barbarian" was in the White House, claiming Trump's policies had cost Americans heavily.

Speaker Mike Johnson called the members of the Democratic Socialist wing "barbarians" during the RNC midterms convention in Dallas, Texas.

Abdul El-Sayed calls Trump 'barbarian'

Appearing on CBS News’ ‘Face the Nation’ on Sunday, September 13, Michigan Senate candidate and a member of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, Abdul El-Sayed ripped President Donald Trump and the GOP.

He also strongly pushed back against Mike Johnson's comment that socialists like Mamdanis (NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani) and El-Sayeds were barbarians who were let “inside the gate” by the Democratic establishment.

As the interview began, host Weijia Jiang played a clip of Speaker Johnson addressing a crowd at the GOP midterm convention, and asked El-Sayed what he makes of “Republicans focusing so much attention on” him.

In the clip, Johnson is heard saying, “We know who the Mamdanis and the El-Sayeds are, but it's the Democrats in the swing seats who say one thing and then join forces and vote with the socialists that they're afraid of. That is the dangerous part. They're the ones who have let the barbarians inside the gate.”

Pushing back against Johnson’s remark, El-Sayed said, “The barbarian is in the White House, and we're seeing the consequences of that right now. You know, it was not a subject at all of the RNC."

El-Sayed claims Republicans are using his name to distract from Trump's policies

Highlighting the several issues currently faced by Americans, El-Sayed said common people are battling with a lot of challenges he attributed to Trump's policies, including people who “can't see a doctor in the United States.”

He also claimed that Trump’s policies were raising costs for American families, pointing to what he said was an average increase of $5,600 a year for Michigan families because of the war with Canada.

“They didn’t want to talk about any of it,” El-Sayed said, also pointing to problems with access to health care.

He accused Republicans of focusing on him, his name, and his faith to distract voters from the impact of Trump’s policies.

“At the end of the day, they’re doing that so that you don’t pay attention to the fact that you are being nickel-and-dimed by the barbarian in the White House and by a set of public policies that are not in your interest, but in his,” he said.