Leaked Audio Shows Muslim Candidate Hates the Second Amendment

Abdul El-Sayed once suggested rewriting the Constitution so the right to bear arms becomes a right to health care instead.

Story Snapshot

A resurfaced 2023 video shows Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed proposing to “tweak” the Second Amendment into a right to health care.
A separate 2022 clip has him arguing the Second Amendment only protects a “regulated militia,” not individual gun owners.
CNN’s KFile found more than 100 videos on his YouTube channel were made private before he launched his campaign.
His campaign says he “respects the Second Amendment” and calls the old comments outdated, but has not directly walked back the specific quotes.

What The Resurfaced Videos Actually Show

In an April 6, 2023 YouTube video, El-Sayed floated a specific constitutional swap. “What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care?” he asked, according to CNN’s KFile investigation. That is not a vague musing about gun policy. It is a named proposal to remove a right protecting arms and put health care in its place.

A second clip, from May 26, 2022, goes further on the legal theory itself. Fox News Digital reported El-Sayed said the Second Amendment “does not apply to individual Americans” and only covers “a regulated militia”. That claim rejects the individual right to bear arms altogether, a position at odds with decades of Supreme Court precedent recognizing personal gun ownership as protected.

Why More Than 100 Videos Went Private

CNN’s KFile team found that over 100 videos on El-Sayed’s YouTube channel appeared to be switched to private before his Senate campaign launched. That timing matters. It suggests a cleanup effort covering a wide range of content, not just an isolated clip that slipped through the cracks during years of podcasting.

The same reporting also flagged other scrubbed material, including posts criticizing Fourth of July fireworks and past comments defending “defund the police” language. Taken together, the pattern looks less like a single offhand remark and more like a broader effort to bury a paper trail before voters could see it.

The Campaign’s Defense And Its Limits

El-Sayed’s spokeswoman, Roxie Richner, told Fox News Digital that “Abdul respects the Second Amendment, and also believes that access to healthcare is a right”. His campaign separately told CNN that “cherry-picked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his beliefs today”, pointing to a 2025 post where he told followers to enjoy fireworks.

Notice what is missing from that response. Nobody on the campaign has directly disputed the quotes, denied he said them, or explained what specifically changed his mind on the Second Amendment. Saying old comments “don’t reflect his beliefs today” is not the same as saying they were wrong then, either.

A Familiar Playbook For Campaign Video Cleanup

This is not a new phenomenon. Candidates across both parties have learned that years of podcast appearances and YouTube commentary create a long digital trail, and privacy settings offer a tempting shortcut before a statewide run. The problem is that once reporters have already archived the clips, quietly hiding them tends to draw more attention than the original comments ever would have.

New Audio Shows Abdul El-Sayed Hates the Second Amendment https://t.co/08xTZJ4dzB

— Woodrow Williams (@Woodrow17165268) August 18, 2026

Michigan voters now have to weigh two competing signals. One is years of on-record commentary questioning individual gun rights and floating a constitutional rewrite. The other is a general-election-season pivot toward reassurance, delivered through a spokeswoman rather than the candidate himself explaining his reasoning on camera. For an amendment this central to American self-government, that gap deserves more than a talking point.