Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday — asking if he is circumcised — during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors.
“Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?” El-Sayed bluntly asked the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host, after arguing that the government shouldn’t get involved in transgender medical procedures for children.
Watters was floored by the question.
“Jesse, are you?” El-Sayed pressed.
“Yeah, yeah, but I mean, that’s a personal question — doctor,” Watters responded.
El-Sayed, seemingly convinced that he ended the debate with Watters, suggested: “You probably should want to move on.”
“Circumcision is different than castration!” Watters fired back.
Undeterred, El-Sayed argued that it’s a “problem” that Watters believes the government should step in to outlaw sex change surgeries for minors but not circumcisions.
“I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling,” the former public health official told Watters. “So if you really want to bring that up, you can … I just think you guys are really selective about these things.”
Watters described El-Sayed’s position as “wacky” and “sick.”
“Abdul, Michigan’s not going for that. That is sick stuff,” he said.
The Fox host followed up by asking El-Sayed if he was in favor of “boys playing in girls’ sports,” which irritated the Senate hopeful.
“You have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan,” he said.
“You can play this game if you want,” El-Sayed fumed. “I just want to understand what you’re getting at here.”
“I’m getting at whether you think men should play in women’s sports … it’s a big issue,” Watters asked again.
El-Sayed dodged the question, arguing: “At the end of the day, the decision of who gets to play what sports ought to be decided by the people who govern sports.”
He then called it “insane” that Watters would pose him such a question.
“I’m running for US Senate,” he said. “Jesse, this is insane.”
Earlier in the interview, El-Sayed refused to say how much his proposal to socialize the healthcare system would cost; would not answer a question about the size of the US budget; and declined to explain why he allegedly suggested the “NFL was racist.”
The lefty Dem also expressed support for both arresting some criminal illegal migrants and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – seemingly suggesting the US should bring back the long-defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to handle immigration enforcement.
“It’s a bureaucratic game you’re playing,” Watters, sounding annoyed, said in response. “And that’s a dodge.”
El-Sayed will face Republican nominee Mike Rogers – a former congressman and FBI special agent – in a midterm contest that could decide which party controls the Senate next year.
El-Sayed’s defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) earlier this month in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The contest was viewed as a “battle for the soul of the Democratic Party” because it pitted a mainstream candidate against a far-left challenger.
Establishment Dems, including Stevens, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and potential 2028 White House hopefuls Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom, quickly endorsed El-Sayed after his primary win in an effort to present a united front ahead of the general election.
