Video taking off 21x its usual first day

El-Sayed thanks Aipac for chance to "beat you twice"

Middle East Eye's victory-speech clip pairs a challenge to political spending with a call to redirect US tax dollars towards schools and healthcare.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 393,748 views a day, 21 times a normal first day on this channel (18,492).

Abdul El-Sayed celebrates victory, takes aim at Aipac, JD, Trump

Abdul El-Sayed turns a thank-you into a rebuke in Middle East Eye's clip of his Michigan Senate victory speech. Addressing Aipac, the pro-Israel lobbying group, he credits its spending against his campaign with giving him the opportunity to defeat it twice.

The senator-elect then broadens his message beyond the organisations that opposed him: "we are coming for your system of politics." The spending claim is his, part of a speech that treats the result as a mandate to challenge special interests.

Middle East Eye's Short reached roughly 364,000 views in 20 hours, far beyond its usual first-day audience for the format. The excerpt begins with the jokes about JD Vance administering his oath and Donald Trump having to call him senator. But its closing stretch turns to Palestinian rights and what American taxes should pay for.

"If you believe in equal rights to peace, dignity and self-determination, that's not hate, it's love," El-Sayed says. He argues that Michigan residents want investment in schools, healthcare and infrastructure at home rather than spending on war abroad.

The clip sits within a wider election focus at Middle East Eye. Another excerpt features El-Sayed celebrating his win, while Mounira Elsamra's report follows Aber Kawas's election to New York's state legislature and her agenda spanning Palestinian rights and affordability.

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The facts

Channel: Middle East Eye
Subscribers: 3,850,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 8,274,431
Channel views, pace per day: 1,943,674 (on a normal day: 1,091,886)
Video published: November 4, 2026
Video views so far: 363,940 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 393,748

The numbers

The victory-speech excerpt drew an unusually large audience for a Middle East Eye Short. Its comment count also passed the channel's usual full-day level well before its first day ended.

the video's first day

usual first day here

18,492

this video

393,748

subscribers

3,850,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,517,864,963

views per day

1,943,674