Audio Shows Socialist Muslim Candidate Hates Second Amendment

A resurfaced clip captures Abdul El-Sayed urging a swap of the right to bear arms for a right to health care, and his team now says those old words do not reflect his current views.

Story Snapshot

Resurfaced videos show El-Sayed proposing a constitutional right to health care in place of gun rights.
Another clip has him framing the Second Amendment as tied to militias, not individual gun owners.
More than 100 YouTube videos on his channel were made private before his Senate run, CNN reported.
His campaign says he respects the Second Amendment today and calls older clips cherry-picked.

What the resurfaced clips actually say

CNN reported that an April 6, 2023 video shows El-Sayed asking, “What if we tweaked the Constitution… and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?” The same report said more than 100 videos on his YouTube channel were made private before his Senate campaign launch. Fox News Digital also cited a May 26, 2022 video where he argued the Second Amendment applies to a regulated militia, not to individual Americans.

Coverage from multiple outlets repeated the health care swap quote, which reduces the chance this rests on a single transcript. Reports from The Hill, The Federalist, the New York Post, and the Daily Wire echoed the same line. Fox News added that he linked the change to fewer gun deaths and more people living due to health care access. Dates in the coverage — 2022 and 2023 — anchor when the remarks were recorded, not invented after the fact.

What the campaign says now

El-Sayed’s campaign says those older podcast comments do not reflect his beliefs today and calls the resurfaced material cherry-picked. A spokeswoman told Fox News Digital he respects the Second Amendment and believes access to health care is a right. The team also pointed to a 2025 post where he told people to enjoy Fourth of July fireworks, to show he moved off past takes that looked hostile to tradition and civic culture.

His recent health care stance remains expansive, but framed as access, not a swap for gun rights. In a 2025 interview, he said everybody should be guaranteed the health care they need and deserve, aligning with a familiar progressive policy arc while avoiding constitutional replacement talk. That difference matters to voters who want clear lines between social policy goals and core constitutional rights.

Why the video takedown pattern fuels mistrust

CNN’s report that more than 100 YouTube videos went private before the campaign began feeds a storyline many voters know by heart: scrub, run, and reframe. Once clips vanish, the debate shifts from “what did he mean?” to “why did he hide it?” That move invites attack messaging that thrives on short, vivid lines that stick in memory. The health care-for-guns phrasing is one of those lines. The clip’s power grows because people can picture it without seeing it.

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— Woodrow Williams (@Woodrow17165268) August 18, 2026

Political media now rewards heat over context. Short videos outpace long explainers, and privatized posts push the public to trust secondhand summaries. That dynamic does not prove deception, but it does tilt the field against candidates who once spoke freely. The surest fix is sunlight: release the full clips, provide full transcripts, and explain what changed. Voters forgive growth more than they forgive erasure.

How to weigh the claim against American constitutional norms

The core quote asks to replace an enumerated right with a social good. That runs straight into two centuries of American practice: we protect natural rights, then pass laws to meet social needs. The United States Supreme Court affirmed the individual right to keep and bear arms. Campaigns can debate rules and safety measures. Rewriting the Bill of Rights is a different project entirely and cuts against common sense about limited government and personal liberty.

On the facts, the record supports that El-Sayed voiced the idea in 2023 and discussed a militia-only view in 2022. On the present, his campaign says he respects the Second Amendment and that past clips do not reflect today’s stance. Voters should judge both realities at once. Ask for the full videos. Listen for a plain answer to a plain question: Do you support an individual right to keep and bear arms? If the answer is yes, say it, own it, and leave no space for edits to say otherwise.