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Gavin Newsom puts party over principles backing Abdul El-Sayed

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Gavin Newsom’s decision to endorse and campaign for radical left-wing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a betrayal of California voters and of the liberal principles he claims to uphold.

El-Sayed is a slick operator who used the enthusiasm of the left-wing base to eke out a primary win against Representative Haley Stevens in the race for US Senate in Michigan.

The “progressive” El-Sayed owns homes on three continents, yet poses as the champion of the working class, making socialist promises like “Medicare for All” — which, as Newsom knows, failed in California because the cost of paying for illegal immigrants was unsustainable.

But the real problem with El-Sayed is that he empathizes with terrorists, and harbors a hatred for Jews that he cannot hide. 

Earlier this year, when an Islamic terrorist attacked a synagogue near Detroit, with dozens of schoolchildren inside, El-Sayed condemned the attack — but then tried to justify it.

He blamed the attack on the fact that the attacker “lost family … in an airstrike on Lebanon” the week before. And who was his “family”? A commander in Hezbollah, the terror group that fires rockets at Israeli........

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