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WATCH: Surfaced videos of Dem Senate candidate backing ‘defund the police’ contradict recent denials

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The front-runner in Michigan’s messy Democratic primary has repeatedly said he never called for defunding the police, but unearthed interviews and video from years earlier tell a different story.
Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the Democratic nomination in Michigan against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., has been adamant throughout his push for the Senate that he never wanted to strip tax dollars from police departments, going so far as to say he deleted old tweets embracing the ideology.
But in a video for the University of Michigan published five years ago titled, «Systemic Racism as a Public Health Issue,» El-Sayed argued that funding police and their use of force was a facet of systemic racism and constituted a public health issue.
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Michigan Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed has spent his campaign denying that he wanted to defund the police, but in an unearthed clip, he asked, «Do police really need to use guns?» (Sarah Rice/Getty Images)
«Why are we investing so much in people with guns and less in people with the means of being able to invest in young folks, empower folks through their livelihoods, and empower them to live their best lives?» El-Sayed questioned.
«Do police really need to use guns? Do we need as much of a police force?» he continued. «And so, if we ask ourselves about how we spend money in the public, where that money goes, where it comes from, we need to make a lot better decisions about investing in the things that root out poverty, rather than investing in policing poverty.»
The video follows a report from CNN that found during the height of the «defund the police» movement in 2020, El-Sayed leaned into it.
During an interview with Detroit Public Radio from June 2020, El-Sayed argued that he never directly called to «defund the police,» but he contended that the principles behind the movement were difficult to express online in a tweet.
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«So, you’ll note, I didn’t say ‘defund the police,’ I just described what needed to be done,» El-Sayed said. «And I do think we need to be really focused on describing or explaining rather than sort of hedging on one side or the other behind a hashtag.»
«Defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets and investing more in the means of educating and empowering and engaging communities with the means of being able to take on systemic poverty that we’ve allowed to fester in too many communities.»
El-Sayed tried to pitch his stance as «refunding» the police to ensure taxpayer dollars don’t flow to «buy war materiel to wage war in our streets.»
«What we call that is, to me, less important than what we do on the problems on the ground,» he said at the time.
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Chicago police officers patrol downtown on Aug. 26, 2025, in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Roxie Richner, a campaign spokesperson for El-Sayed, said in a statement to Fox News Digital that he worked closely with law enforcement during his time as director of Health, Human, and Veterans Services for Wayne County, Michigan, and that «as hands-on experience always allows, his perspective has become more nuanced.»
«One simple word has never been enough to fully explain the reforms we need for a challenge as complex as our criminal legal system,» she said.
«Just as he did in Wayne County in 2023, Abdul believes we need to improve law enforcement recruitment, retention, and retirement funding so that law enforcement officers come from the communities they serve,» Richner continued. «He also believes we must reject militarized policing, pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and opt for community violence intervention, behavioral health response, and improvements in public health to reduce violence and protect the lives of communities and law enforcement alike.»
Still, El-Sayed has sought to clean up his position on the matter as he runs ahead in one of the most consequential races of the 2026 midterm cycle.
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He and Stevens are vying to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., for a seat Republicans are hungry to flip.
And more broadly, El-Sayed is part of the progressive wave that is flooding into the Democratic Party, sporting endorsements from progressive heavyweights like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
The candidate, however, can’t seem to shake off his posts and interviews from years ago despite this support.
Just last week during an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, El-Sayed was pressed on his old posts and shot back that he «deleted all the tweets, because I didn’t want them to be taken out of context like this.»
He chalked up the issue to «clickbait in D.C.»
«I think this debate about 2020 and the ways that tweets are going to play are really nice on CNN if you want to get clicks,» El-Sayed said. «They’re not that effective, and nobody really asks me about them on the streets or in communities in Michigan.»
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Trump blasts Spain migrant surge as ‘catastrophe,’ warns US could face worse if Democrats regain power

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President Donald Trump said Friday during a Cabinet meeting that scenes of migrants flooding into Spain’s enclave of Ceuta from Morocco looked like a «catastrophe,» but that the U.S. could see worse in the future if Democrats regain power.
«You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected,» Trump said Friday at Camp David. «Except worse, much bigger, much easier to get into. Despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do. But if we didn’t have that, forget it. But we have the safest border in the world. If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.»
«And when I watched it, I said, boy, I said, ‘I’m going to say it because I knew you were going to be at Camp David.’ And I say, ‘That’s going to be a talking point for the midterms, because when you look at what happened to Spain, they don’t know what to do.’ And it’s happening again today,» the president continued. «They’re coming in by the tens of thousands. It’s just invading the country. And what that is weak law, bad management, but very liberal law. They passed a couple of laws and people read, you know, people are smart. They read from other countries, and they swam that 3-mile swim or however they got in.»
«But nobody’s seen anything like it. That will look good compared to what’s going to happen to the United States,» Trump also said. «The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did is allowing 25 million people into our country, because many of those people are criminals. They’re murderers,» Trump also said. «A lot of them are gone now. We got them out. But they allowed people to come into this country that you can’t allow to come into a country.»
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President Donald Trump, center, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, listens during a Cabinet meeting, on Friday, July 31, 2026, at Camp David. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump made similar comments to Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich earlier Friday morning.
«It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,» Trump said.
«If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life,» he warned.
U.S. border security has remained a key plank of the president’s campaign and policy focus throughout his political career.
An English translation of a Friday Spanish-language post on X from Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, «The Government will guarantee the safety of the residents of Ceuta, intensifying the presence of the Security Forces and Corps on the city’s streets.» The post also included a video of him delivering remarks in Spanish.
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Map depicting Spain, Morocco, and Spain’s Cueta, which borders Morocco. (2026 EarthStar Geographics, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors)
Ceuta, which is located along the northwestern African coast and borders Morocco, is not attached to mainland Spain.
«Additionally, we will deploy a physical containment barrier in the sea to facilitate repatriation at the border, in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. We will expedite the repatriation files of the migrants who arrived irregularly. And we will maintain cooperation with the Moroccan authorities to continue fighting against the mafias that traffic in human beings,» the prime minister’s post added.
Around 60,000 migrants had ventured from Morocco to Ceuta over the past 24 hours, Cueta President Juan Jesús Vivas said on Friday.
At least 41 migrants lost their lives.
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Spain’s interior ministry issued its own figures not long after Vivas spoke, estimating that some 50,000 individuals came from Morocco since Thursday, adding that half had already gone back to Morocco.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Rúben Amorim admitió errores en el Manchester United y explicó cómo esa etapa marcó su carrera: “Aprendí mucho”

Rúben Amorim reconoció haber cometido “muchos errores” durante su etapa al frente del Manchester United y aseguró haber “aprendido mucho” de aquella experiencia en Old Trafford. El técnico portugués, actualmente al mando del AC Milan, realizó estas declaraciones ante la prensa durante la gira de pretemporada del club rossoneri en Australia, según recogió Sports Illustrated.
El paso de Amorim por el United fue uno de los períodos más turbulentos en la historia reciente del club inglés. Llegó al banco de Old Trafford avalado por dos títulos de la Primeira Liga con el Sporting CP de Lisboa y con la etiqueta de uno de los entrenadores más prometedores del continente.
El United desembolsó hasta 11 millones de libras esterlinas (unos 14,6 millones de dólares) para liberarlo de su contrato con el club portugués. Sin embargo, apenas 14 meses después, el propio club abonó otros 15,9 millones de libras (21,2 millones de dólares) para finiquitar al técnico y a su cuerpo técnico.
El sistema táctico de Amorim, basado en una defensa de tres centrales, nunca encontró el encaje necesario en la Premier League. El United cedía demasiado control del juego a sus rivales y quedaba expuesto a la variabilidad del fútbol inglés. La última vez que un entrenador había logrado consolidar ese esquema en la élite inglesa fue Antonio Conte, cuando ganó la liga con el Chelsea hace una década.
A los problemas sobre el campo se sumó un deterioro progresivo de la relación entre Amorim y la cúpula directiva del club, entre ellos el director deportivo Jason Wilcox. La ruptura se hizo pública de forma explícita tras el empate 1-1 ante el Leeds United en lo que resultó ser su último partido al frente del equipo, cuando el técnico arremetió públicamente contra los responsables del club. En enero de 2026, le rescindieron su contrato.
La llegada de Michael Carrick como su sucesor no hizo sino amplificar el contraste: el rendimiento del equipo bajo las órdenes del excentrocampista inglés contribuyó a agudizar la percepción negativa del legado portugués en Old Trafford.
Desde su nueva etapa en el Milan, Amorim no eludió las preguntas sobre su paso por Manchester. “Lo primero es que ya no importa”, declaró el técnico en rueda de prensa, en declaraciones recogidas por Sports Illustrated. “Esa es la sensación. Hay una historia, luego algo sucede, el contexto cambia y te centras en el siguiente reto”.
No obstante, fue más allá y asumió su cuota de responsabilidad. “Aprendí mucho”, afirmó Amorim. “Sería difícil señalar una sola cosa, pero lo que sé con claridad es que cometí muchos errores. Cuando haces ese tipo de reflexión y entiendes que no era solo culpa de ellos, sino también culpa mía, creo que puedes ser mejor entrenador y mejor persona”, agregó.
El AC Milan le designó como sucesor de Massimiliano Allegri el 15 de junio de 2026, con el encargo de devolverle al club su nivel histórico en la Serie A. Los rossoneri, campeones del Scudetto en la temporada 2021-22, acumulaban dos ejercicios consecutivos por debajo de las expectativas: un octavo y un quinto puesto en las últimas dos temporadas.
El balance del portugués en Old Trafford refleja la magnitud de sus dificultades. Amorim registró los peores índices de cualquier entrenador en la historia del club en tres categorías de la Premier League, de acuerdo con los datos brindados por Sports Illustrated:
- Partidos dirigidos: 63
- Victorias: 25
- Empates: 15
- Derrotas: 23
- Porcentaje de victorias: 39,7% — el más bajo de cualquier entrenador del United en la Premier League (32% en el torneo doméstico)
- Goles encajados por partido: 1,53 — el peor registro en la historia del club
- Porcentaje de porterías a cero: 15% — el más bajo en la historia del club
- Diferencia de goles: +8
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