Socialism’s hatred of rich people has always been a practice in contradiction, and nothing showcased that more recently than Fox News blowing the lid off of radical lefty senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s connections to the Soros empire.
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum held El-Sayed’s feet to the political fire during the October 5 edition of The Story: “You were in Los Angeles with the Soros family. So my question is how is this not taking money from billionaire oligarchs and powerbrokers?”
El-Sayed recently attended a fundraiser in West Hollywood organized by Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of America’s most notorious billionaire donor George Soros, one of the top donors of the 2026 midterm cycle. El-Sayed immediately tried dodging the question, “So when individuals want to give to my campaign, I welcome their support.” He then arbitrarily pivoted to attacking entities that had nothing to do with the initial question: “You know what I don’t do? I don’t call corporations. I don’t call AIPAC.”
Huh? What the heck does that have to do with the price of tea?
Attacking AIPAC and random corporations — and stay with us here — does not excuse El-Sayed’s explicit familial connection to a billionaire who has already put $103 million into swinging the election to Democrats after building his entire campaign on a “students vs. billionaires” platform. The only way the two fit is if “billionaire” stops counting the moment the checks clear for your side. El-Sayed deflected further by playing the victim over how he was supposedly outspent in his Democratic primary “eleven-to-one” by “outside super PACS,” effectively creating a distinction without a difference. MacCallum didn’t let him off the hook for it:
[Sen.] Chuck Schumer's PAC gave your campaign $30M. Do you know where that money comes from? Corporations.
🚨 OMG. Abdul El Sayed just got brutally CONFRONTED on national TV for demanding we get "money out of politics," then appearing with the SOROS FAMILY and taking money from huge donors MACCALLUM: Here you are in LA with the Soros family. How is this not taking money from billionaire oligarchs and power brokers? ABDUL: I welcome support from individual donors. I don't call corporations, or AIPAC...*excuses* MACCALLUM: Chuck Schumer's PAC gave your campaign $30M. Do you know where that money comes from? Corporations. ABDUL: *Snarky look on his face* And there it is. Every socialist is like this. EVERY SOCIALIST. BERNIE SANDERS INCLUDED. They will sit there and RAIL against "money in politics," or the "wealthy" Then the next day they're cozying up to Soros and Big Democrat Funders so they can achieve power. IMAGINE THAT. Vote for Mike Rogers, Michigan!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 5, 2026
The upshot is that Soros’s own super PAC, Democracy PAC, gave at least $9 million to the Schumer-aligned Senate Majority PAC, which in turn pledged $30 million to El-Sayed’s campaign. In essence, Soros’s funding alone would in theory account for 30 percent of what was pledged to El-Sayed. Given that MacCallum drew a direct line from the corporations and special interests financing, er, El-Sayed’s financiers, the socialist candidate could do nothing but dribble over himself into dubiously pledging prima facie that his funders won’t circle back around for their cut of the quid-pro-quo. Talk about a narrative trainwreck.
This isn’t even the first time El-Sayed has been caught with his proverbial pants down. During the August 9 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, anchor Kristen Welker surprisingly cornered the socialist on his unrealistic universal healthcare proposal, which she got him to admit meant jacking up the tax bill on everybody.
Abdul El-Sayed admits that Medicare-for-all involves raising the taxes on all Americans regardless of their income level and ending private health insurance: "Instead of paying your health insurance company, you pay a little more in taxes... I think that's a trade that's worth making."
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 9, 2026
Yes, it's a little shocking that Welker keeps defending el-Sayed as a self-proclaimed capitalist while he's pushing the end of private health insurance. Here’s a rule of thumb for journalists: Get a socialist politico to actually get granular about their preachy, anti-capitalist proposals and you’ll watch them sink their own ship nine times out of ten.
