El-Sayed Said Get Big Money Out. On Fox He Meant Corporations.

A Facebook reel from the Bongino Report, posted October 6. When this was pulled, Facebook’s count on it was 177,000 views and 12,000 reactions. Shawn Farash is the voice. The picture is Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News, Martha MacCallum’s The Story, October 5. The Fox write-up of that interview is the same exchange.

The card he puts up is a post from @AbdulElSayed, 8:00 a.m., June 11, 2025. The line on it: “We have got to get big money out of politics.” On May 27 he had already posted the other half. “If you take corporate money while you’re running, you’re not going to stand up to corporate money when you’re in power. I’ve never taken a dime—and I never will.” That post is still up. The dime was the escape hatch. He swore off corporations and left the billionaires a door.

He used it. On September 28, Jeffrey Soros, George’s nephew, hosted him at a West Hollywood fundraiser. The invite said guests could give up to $57,800 to the Abdul for Michigan Victory Fund. On the tape Fox obtained, Jeffrey said he has known El-Sayed since 2012, when he interviewed him as a finalist for his parents’ fellowship, the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Paul Soros is George’s brother. Fox reports the fellowship partially funded the graduate education. That is the family. The last name on the house and the last name on the fellowship are the same last name.

The money around the race is the same network. The Working Families Party’s own November 2 memo says it invested $1.3 million in digital ads, with Fighting for Michigan PAC, and ran a canvassing program with Friends of Bernie Sanders. Democracy PAC, the Soros family super PAC, had given $9 million this cycle to Senate Majority PAC through June 30. Senate Majority PAC pledged $30 million to the Michigan race. A super PAC check and a party ad buy are how big money shows up when the candidate needs to say he never took a dime.

MacCallum asked him, on this interview, whether he knew that $30 million comes from corporations, and whether those people would circle back in Washington. His answer: “They won’t, because I’ve been very, very clear that I am not interested in doing the bidding of corporations. I will not sit down with a corporate lobbyist.” Then the line that shrinks the slogan. “So, when I say money out of politics, I intend fully to get corporate money out of politics.” On the same hit: “When individuals want to give to my campaign, I welcome their support,” and, “You know what I don’t do? I don’t call corporations. I don’t call AIPAC. Individuals who want to support a campaign, that’s different.”

That is the move. June was big money. October is corporations, and a Soros hosting as an “individual” gets to stay inside the rule he just wrote. He drew the line where his donors still fit.