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El-Sayed sets out a Michigan agenda with Gaza in view

Al Araby's Arabic-translated victory speech connects healthcare and auto workers' livelihoods with the senator-elect's opposition to funding wars.

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العربي - أخبار : The Arabic television channel Al Araby, broadcasting from London since 2015, owned by a company backed by Qatar. 12M subscribers and 9.7B views.

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0:48El-Sayed turns the campaign's "God willing" into "praise be to God" after his victory.
3:26He describes attacks on his name and Muslim identity, insisting that America has room for everyone.
5:20His domestic priorities include auto workers, healthcare access and tackling inflation.
7:25He says heavy outside political spending failed to overcome his supporters' organizing.
10:18He invokes Palestinian children and argues for spending tax dollars on schools and healthcare rather than wars.
17:50He thanks unions and urges supporters to help change policy in Washington.

Support for Michigan's auto workers, access to healthcare and relief from inflation are among the priorities Abdul El-Sayed sets out in his Senate victory speech. Alongside those domestic promises, he makes an argument about Gaza: American tax dollars, he says, should support schools and healthcare at home rather than finance wars.

Al Araby TV News, based in Qatar, carries the speech with simultaneous Arabic interpretation. Its recording drew roughly 574,000 views since yesterday, bringing an extended account of the Michigan Democrat's message to Arabic-speaking viewers.

El-Sayed defeated Republican former congressman Mike Rogers in the contest for the seat held by retiring Democrat Gary Peters. An epidemiologist entering the Senate, he reminds the audience of his professional identity: "I'm not a politician, I'm a doctor."

The speech begins with a change in the language of hope. Having used "inshallah," meaning "God willing," during the campaign, he tells supporters: "Today, tonight, we can make 'inshallah' 'alhamdulillah'." The latter means "praise be to God."

He credits volunteers, small donors and the people who knocked on doors throughout the campaign. He also describes negative campaigning directed at his name, religion and Muslim background, answering it with an insistence that America has room for everyone. Later, he says outside political groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to defeat him, presenting his victory as evidence of organized people's power against money.

His discussion of Palestinian children and public spending arrives around halfway through the recording. It is part of the same case he makes for his domestic priorities: government resources should serve people's needs.

Near the end, his wife joins him onstage for an embrace before the broadcast briefly returns to the studio. Back at the lectern, El-Sayed thanks labor unions and asks supporters to remain involved beyond election night: "So do not send me to Washington alone."

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