El-Sayed’s scathing Obama critique resurfaces ahead of joint campaign rally

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Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed defends his progressive policies by claiming he is a capitalist. Jackie DeAngelis details the political stakes in Detroit, where Barack Obama is scheduled to campaign for him.

Abdul El-Sayed once accused President Barack Obama of failing to deliver on the progressive campaign promises that he outlined in the 2008 presidential campaign, calling his election to a second term a kind of compromise for progressives.

"I realize that I have little hope because there has been less change," El-Sayed wrote in a 2012 op-ed for HuffPost.

"But I have to say now what I’ve been holding in throughout his campaign and what I think all of us have to admit: Obama was not the right choice — he just wasn’t the wrong one."

The resurfaced comments, published just days after the 2012 presidential election, complicate the political picture for El-Sayed as he prepares to campaign with Obama later this month. The comments also raise questions about what El-Sayed’s ideals for the Democratic Party would have looked like in 2012, highlighting his past satisfaction with one of the Democratic Party's most prominent figures.

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