Leaked Audio Shows Socialist Muslim Candidate Hates Second Amendment

On tape, Abdul El-Sayed floats swapping “the right to bear arms” for “the right to have health care,” and that line now defines the fight.

Story Snapshot

Resurfaced videos show El-Sayed proposing a constitutional health care right in place of the Second Amendment.
Reports also cite him claiming the Second Amendment protects militias, not individual gun owners.
More than 100 videos on his channel were made private before his Senate run, per a CNN review.
His campaign says he respects the Second Amendment today and calls old clips cherry-picked.

The line that lit the fuse

Cable and digital outlets zeroed in on one sentence from an April 2023 video: “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?” The quote appeared across coverage from Fox News, The Hill, and The Federalist, which matched the phrasing and timing, giving the claim a firm on-record anchor even without the full video posted today.

The attention did not stop there. A separate May 2022 clip, described by Fox News Digital, had El-Sayed arguing the Second Amendment “does not apply to individual Americans,” but rather to “a regulated militia”. That stance runs straight into Supreme Court precedent in District of Columbia v. Heller, which held the right is individual, not collective. Voters hearing “militia-only” will read it as a hard swerve away from mainstream understanding of gun rights.

The vanishing archive problem

CNN’s KFile reported more than 100 videos on El-Sayed’s YouTube channel were made private before he launched his campaign. That detail matters for two reasons. First, it shows these are not fresh deepfakes or last-minute edits. Second, it means the public now relies on reporters’ viewed copies or transcripts rather than a stable archive. In modern campaigns, that vacuum lets the sharpest sound bite take over the story while context goes missing.

The pattern fits our media moment. Short, high-charge quotes get clipped and looped. Platforms turn old posts private. Newsrooms then act as the de facto archives. That loop rewards the most provocative phrasing—like replacing the Second Amendment with health care—over any longer policy walk-through. When a candidate changes or refines views, the earlier line still defines the debate unless they confront it head-on with receipts and detail.

What the campaign says now

El-Sayed’s team offered a narrow but important reply: he “respects the Second Amendment,” while also viewing access to health care as a right. They also called the resurfaced podcasts “cherry-picked” and said those comments do not reflect his beliefs today, a message echoed in other coverage. That is the standard containment move. It tells voters where he stands now, but it does not erase the prior words or settle how far his current policy would go on guns.

On the merits, the core quote is not a stray malapropism. It is a direct proposal to amend constitutional text. Conservative readers will see that as a clear statement of priorities: trade a named, enumerated right for a positive entitlement. That flips the Founders’ model. The Bill of Rights limits government against the citizen. A health care guarantee empowers government over markets and budgets. The tension is not abstract; it shows what he would elevate, and what he would downgrade.

How to weigh the claims like an adult

Two filters help. First, stick to what is on the record. Multiple outlets quote the same language with dates; that supports the existence of the statements even if the full videos are private today. Second, separate rhetoric from policy. “Replace the right to bear arms” is not a marginal tweak; it signals a worldview where government secures social goods by rewriting the charter. That runs against both American tradition and common sense limits on state power favored by most right-of-center voters.

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— Woodrow Williams (@Woodrow17165268) August 18, 2026

Fairness also requires one caveat. A campaign can evolve. People learn, recalibrate, and moderate. If El-Sayed now affirms an individual right to keep and bear arms as settled by the Supreme Court, and rejects the militia-only view, he should say so in plain terms and release the full originals for context. Until then, the most memorable thing he said about the Second Amendment is also the most damaging thing he said about it—and it is on tape.