The Ben Shapiro Show - October 16, 2026


Watch Democrats Pander for the Black Vote

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Abdul El Sayed Hillary Clinton Haley Stevens Martin Has Said Abdul Rahman Al Sayed Mohammed Sultan Robert Menendez Susan Collins Jimmy Carter Troy Jackson Joe Biden Abdul El-Sayed Abdul Fatman El Sayed Abdul Fatman Al Sayed Iman Abdul Hadi Tucker Carlson Mikey Sherrill Mohammed Morsi Simon Lazarus Yasser Arafat and 13 more
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00:00:00.000 So, El Sayed, again, every day brings out more news about his deep and abiding associations with the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:00:09.000 According to the Washington Free Beacon, in a 2021 article on a since deleted Substack account, the left wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdulrahman El Sayed defended a man he described as his friend after he was jailed for funding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
00:00:22.000 The man, Mohammed Sultan, is the son of a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who called to kill those Zionists and argued also for obliterating America.
00:00:30.000 The October 2021 article headlined, The Hypocrisy of Police Rejecting Vaccine Requirements, warned of the bluntest form of government power wielded by police in the United States, asking readers to, quote, imagine living long ago under a monarch whose caprice could have you arbitrarily taxed or jailed or hanged.
00:00:45.000 Sultan was born in Egypt to Salah Sultan, a former professor of Islamic law at Cairo University and a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
00:00:53.000 The elder Sultan was one of 50 Muslim Brotherhood leaders charged with spearheading the 2013 protest aimed at reinstating Egypt's deposed Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi.
00:01:04.000 Again, literally all of Abdul Rahman El Sayed's friends are Muslim Brotherhood, all of them.
00:01:11.000 I mean, again, he was heavily associated with the Muslim Student Association when he was a student. 0.75
00:01:15.000 The Muslim Student Association was a front group originally by people associated with Hamas.
00:01:22.000 Here was old Abdul El Sayed preaching to students in 2009 as part of an MSA promo.
00:01:29.000 The religion came not to enslave us, not to oppress us.
00:01:36.000 As a mercy, as an opportunity to be dignified, to be raised, to be called a believer. 0.88
00:01:46.000 Back in his heavier days, that's Abdul Fatman El Sayed.
00:01:50.000 And, you know, his sister, she's a joy.
00:01:54.000 Here she was, Iman Abdul Hadi, that's his sister, reading her October 7th fiction novel about the final intifada in which the Jews are wiped off the planet.
00:02:04.000 They say, what were you plotting?
00:02:06.000 They say, resistance.
00:02:07.000 Like?
00:02:09.000 You know, guerrilla ops, mostly targeting the border to Gaza.
00:02:12.000 It took a year of intense planning and coordinating with resistance fighters across Palestine, but eventually the border between Gaza and the rest of Palestine fell.
00:02:21.000 The IDF couldn't hold out between the mass defections, the international condemnations, the weapons and supplies drying up.
00:02:28.000 I say, Tell me about the day the border fell.
00:02:32.000 And Hassan pauses for a long time.
00:02:35.000 It was the most beautiful day of my life, bombing the borders, blowing up military outposts, and all that.
00:02:40.000 But most people were just organizers.
00:02:43.000 Those of us that were armed started shooting at them.
00:02:45.000 Some people made Molotov cocktails.
00:02:50.000 This is who Abdurrahman El Sayed is surrounded by, literally full time.
00:02:55.000 Well, it is not a gigantic surprise that El Sayed has been alienating the people who are not members of the Dearborn community.
00:03:03.000 He's got 100% approval in Dearborn, and everywhere else, everybody's like, I don't know about this, man.
00:03:06.000 Haley Stevens, who nearly beat him in the primary despite a bunch of push polls.
00:03:11.000 Just discouraging people from voting.
00:03:12.000 And again, Haley Stevens is the reason.
00:03:14.000 Republicans, independents, Democrats who don't like Abdul Rahman El Sayed in Michigan, he's not only not inevitable, he should lose.
00:03:21.000 Don't believe the polling data that is putting him ahead.
00:03:24.000 It's not true.
00:03:26.000 Remember, he was supposed to be ahead by double digits against Haley Stevens in that primary, and he beat her by a handful of votes.
00:03:32.000 According to Politico, Haley Stevens is saying all of this out loud There's changing dynamics.
00:03:37.000 There's a new coalition that Abdul has built.
00:03:39.000 Some people are a diehard part of it, some people are not.
00:03:41.000 We're seeing some constituent community pain coming out.
00:03:45.000 She was referencing resistance to Al-Sayed among some black and Jewish voters who backed her in the primary.
00:03:50.000 She said, Mike Rogers is working the black community harder and more successfully than we have ever seen a Republican do, or at least that I can remember ever.
00:03:57.000 Well, listen, at least Abdul Al Sayed has the love and support of Tucker Carlson.
00:04:01.000 Well, Al Sayed, who's having problems with black voters, he decided the best way to pander to black voters, and this, by the way, is a constant thing for Democrats. 0.82
00:04:09.000 You start to lose the black vote, and I guess you do stereotypically black things in the most insulting possible way to try to win them back. 0.62
00:04:16.000 So, Abdul Rahman Al Sayed, who makes a big deal out of the idea that he's now, he's no longer Abdul Fatman Al Sayed, he's now supposedly in shape. 0.99
00:04:23.000 So, he went to a gas station in the middle of the night to buy some.
00:04:27.000 Red hot cheese pops and drink Gatorade, which I'm just telling you is not part of his normal diet.
00:04:33.000 Here he was pandering, pandering, oh, the pandering, the thirst quenching pandering here.
00:04:41.000 Hey, can we ask you some serious stuff, too?
00:04:43.000 Yeah. Okay.
00:04:46.000 Good.
00:04:47.000 It's like hot ones right now.
00:04:48.000 It's like hot ones.
00:04:49.000 But it's not actually a hot book.
00:04:53.000 It's not that hot.
00:04:54.000 I don't do heat.
00:04:55.000 Clearly.
00:04:56.000 I know.
00:04:57.000 I'm sorry.
00:04:58.000 I didn't mean to do this.
00:04:58.000 No, no.
00:04:59.000 Oh, you want some Gatorade? 0.78
00:05:00.000 You got some white.
00:05:01.000 You want some Gatorade?
00:05:01.000 I have a bunch of the cards.
00:05:02.000 You need it, man.
00:05:03.000 He needs it.
00:05:04.000 No, no, no, no.
00:05:05.000 Get this man a Gatorade Zero here.
00:05:06.000 All right.
00:05:08.000 It's an emergency.
00:05:08.000 Thank you.
00:05:09.000 All right.
00:05:10.000 There's nothing he likes better than a late night red hots and Gatorade.
00:05:15.000 Sure, sure, my dude.
00:05:16.000 Sure. 1.00
00:05:18.000 Now, here's the thing pandering is for losers. 0.98
00:05:20.000 I have some evidence. 0.90
00:05:22.000 Recall that time that Hillary Clinton was running for president and she told Charlamagne and the God, among others, that she carried hot sauce around in her purse, which no one believes.
00:05:32.000 No one.
00:05:33.000 Hillary Clinton carries mayonnaise around in her purse. 0.99
00:05:36.000 Here's Hillary Clinton back in the day. 0.96
00:05:40.000 What's something that you always carry with you? 1.00
00:05:42.000 Hot sauce.
00:05:44.000 Really?
00:05:45.000 Yeah.
00:05:45.000 Are you getting information right now?
00:05:45.000 Really?
00:05:48.000 Hot sauce.
00:05:50.000 Hot sauce in my bag, swag?
00:05:52.000 Hot sauce.
00:05:53.000 Really? 1.00
00:05:54.000 Now listen, I just want you to know people are going to see this and say, okay, she's pandering to black people. 0.99
00:05:54.000 Yes. 0.99
00:06:00.000 Okay.
00:06:01.000 Is it working?
00:06:05.000 Got you so transparent.
00:06:05.000 Is it working?
00:06:07.000 Like, you know, points for honesty, for the occasional honesty from Hillary Clinton.
00:06:07.000 Is it working?
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00:07:12.000 And of course, you'll remember Joe Biden telling you.
00:07:16.000 I don't know why everyone goes to Charlemagne to pander.
00:07:19.000 I don't know if Charlemagne must be getting tired of this.
00:07:22.000 I like Charlemagne.
00:07:23.000 He's a nice guy, but at a certain point, you must get tired of being just the target of all pandering in the universe.
00:07:28.000 Here was Joe Biden doing this routine.
00:07:31.000 I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, and you ain't black. 0.58
00:07:39.000 Okay. 0.89
00:07:40.000 Okay.
00:07:41.000 And it's not just the olds.
00:07:44.000 You'll recall AOC whipping out her black scent in Tennessee.
00:07:49.000 I love it when Democrats do this, when they start just randomly speaking in dialect.
00:07:54.000 I've never felt the need to do this.
00:07:55.000 It's kind of strange.
00:07:57.000 It's not unique to Democrats, by the way.
00:07:58.000 Sometimes you'll see Republican politicians who get a real down home Southern accent for no reason.
00:08:05.000 Real weird.
00:08:05.000 You start dropping their G's.
00:08:07.000 But here is AOC doing that routine.
00:08:09.000 We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind.
00:08:14.000 We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind.
00:08:25.000 The spirit is moving her.
00:08:27.000 Or, or you start pandering because you are so desperate.
00:08:32.000 So, Democrats have been trying to circle the wagons around Abdul El Sayed.
00:08:36.000 They're trotting out AOC for this.
00:08:38.000 She says it's just ugliness.
00:08:39.000 It's so divisive.
00:08:40.000 It's so divisive.
00:08:41.000 I don't know.
00:08:42.000 I feel like the candidate who supports the Muslim Brotherhood might be more divisive.
00:08:46.000 The one who's kind of warm toward Hamas might be more divisive.
00:08:48.000 I don't know.
00:08:49.000 Maybe.
00:08:52.000 There's a lot of ugliness on the airwaves right now, and it's all meant.
00:08:58.000 Around just divisiveness, racism, anger, all of this stuff.
00:09:04.000 And the reason they're doing that is because they want people to close their ears and shut their eyes before they even hear what Abdul has to say.
00:09:18.000 Oh, that's that.
00:09:19.000 No, no, here's the thing we're all hearing what he has to say, and it's horrible.
00:09:23.000 Meanwhile, the New Republic desperately trotting out a human named Simon Lazarus, who I've never heard of, to write an entire piece about how Jews ought to support.
00:09:30.000 Abdul, not a shock.
00:09:32.000 It turns out he's the associate director of Jimmy Carter's White House domestic policy staff.
00:09:38.000 Jimmy Carter, a man who legitimately went out and basically campaigned for Yasser Arafat.
00:09:44.000 He's the one who's going to tell you, Jewish voters in Michigan, that Abdul Syed is for you.
00:09:50.000 Again, folks, I am not convinced by any stretch of the imagination that Democrats are running nearly as strong as the media wants to make it seem.
00:09:56.000 The media wants to make it seem right now like Ken Paxton is way behind Tallarico in Texas.
00:10:00.000 That is not what the evidence is.
00:10:01.000 There was a poll yesterday that showed Tallarico down one to Paxton in Texas.
00:10:05.000 That is at best a margin of error.
00:10:08.000 That is a margin of error poll.
00:10:11.000 Michigan, right now, is a margin of error state.
00:10:17.000 Iowa is a margin of error state.
00:10:19.000 Maine is a margin of error state.
00:10:20.000 And by the way, should be moving in the direction of Susan Collins, given Troy Jackson's abysmal performance in the final debate last night.
00:10:28.000 Troy Jackson, wow, he dropped some hot material yesterday in his final debate with Susan Collins. 0.60
00:10:39.000 Including telling people to shut up and yelling and being pretty crazy.
00:10:43.000 Two issues.
00:10:45.000 I'm sorry, somebody's interrupting.
00:10:48.000 We'll have our security deal with that.
00:10:51.000 AI data centers are destroying our climate.
00:10:55.000 They are poisoning our water.
00:10:56.000 So, this is obviously one of Troy's supporters. 1.00
00:10:59.000 Oh, shut up. 0.99
00:11:00.000 I didn't know that kid. 0.99
00:11:03.000 And again, Democrats are radical across the board on pretty much every issue.
00:11:07.000 And that includes immigration.
00:11:08.000 I understand that in that poll for Fox News, immigration is not among the top issues.
00:11:12.000 Immigration is only an issue when it's an issue, meaning when Democrats are in charge, it becomes an issue.
00:11:16.000 But that's why, please, folks, check your memory banks to when the border was just wide open.
00:11:23.000 The Daily Wire's Jenny Taylor has an amazing report talking about an illegal immigrant who organized a protest at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey and then landed in federal custody while he promoted a sob story alleging he was kidnapped while shopping.
00:11:38.000 His name was Martin Soto, and he became the face of the anti ICE crusade after leading a hunger strike in ICE's Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey.
00:11:46.000 Soto and his wife Gabriella rallied for his eventual release from ICE custody, and she claimed the agency abducted him.
00:11:52.000 And Democrats went out and rallied for him.
00:11:54.000 Representative Robert Menendez was saying nobody had a criminal record.
00:11:58.000 This is with the governor of New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill, back in May.
00:12:01.000 The reality is that no one in there has a criminal record.
00:12:03.000 No one in there should be held in a privately run detention center.
00:12:06.000 These are people who are mothers, fathers, 18 year olds, as the senator said.
00:12:12.000 And it runs counter to what this administration has been selling to the American people since day one of this administration that they're going after the worst.
00:12:20.000 And then when Soto got out of Delaney, Representative Robert Menendez showed up to hug him.
00:12:30.000 Well, it turns out, according to the Daily Wire, the records paint a different picture.
00:12:33.000 The documents obtained through a public records request from the Kearney Police Department say that Martin Soto was arrested that day by officers in Kearney for domestic abuse.
00:12:43.000 He, quote, purposely caused bodily injury to the victim, specifically by using his hands both open and closed to strike her, so he punched her in her face, causing minor scratches and cuts to her face.
00:12:52.000 Then he placed allegedly a hand over her mouth so she could not scream for help.
00:12:52.000 And neck.
00:12:58.000 Democrats, you're doing a stellar job.
00:13:00.000 Really, really solid stuff from the Democrats.
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