El Sayed addresses RNC convention spotlight: ‘The barbarian is in the White House’

Published September 13, 2026 4:30pm ET | Updated September 13, 2026 4:44pm ET



Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed addressed the attention he received at last week’s Republican midterm elections convention on Sunday.

While speaking with CBS News’s Weijia Jiang of Face the Nation, the socialist Senate candidate said President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other speakers who mentioned him at the first-of-its-kind convention in Dallas didn’t address the real issues voters are facing.

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