Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Paid for by Abdul El-Sayed's own Senate campaign and produced by FIGHT Agency, this 15-second spot has El-Sayed speaking directly to camera, stating he is the only candidate in the race who supports abolishing ICE, a position his campaign says he has held since 2018. The ad is a direct contrast play against rival Haley Stevens, whose record the campaign highlights as including a June 2025 vote for a resolution thanking ICE for "protecting the homeland" along with multiple votes to increase the agency's funding and investigative powers, a contrast El-Sayed has also pressed in debates, where he's accused Stevens of "cowardice" for stopping short of calling for ICE's abolition. The ad lands amid a broader national debate over the agency intensified by recent fatal incidents involving ICE officers, and it's aimed at Democratic primary voters ahead of the August 4 election, where El-Sayed has built a lead over Stevens partly on the strength of his more sweeping stance on immigration enforcement.
This is part of Jim Heath's Campaign Ads '26 project, building a permanent public archive of 2026 campaign ads, the money behind them, and the attacks voters may never see in their own state.
Paid for by Abdul El-Sayed's own Senate campaign and produced by FIGHT Agency, this 15-second spot has El-Sayed speaking directly to camera, stating he is the only candidate in the race who supports abolishing ICE, a position his campaign says he has held since 2018. The ad is a direct contrast play against rival Haley Stevens, whose record the campaign highlights as including a June 2025 vote for a resolution thanking ICE for "protecting the homeland" along with multiple votes to increase the agency's funding and investigative powers, a contrast El-Sayed has also pressed in debates, where he's accused Stevens of "cowardice" for stopping short of calling for ICE's abolition. The ad lands amid a broader national debate over the agency intensified by recent fatal incidents involving ICE officers, and it's aimed at Democratic primary voters ahead of the August 4 election, where El-Sayed has built a lead over Stevens partly on the strength of his more sweeping stance on immigration enforcement.
This is part of Jim Heath's Campaign Ads '26 project, building a permanent public archive of 2026 campaign ads, the money behind them, and the attacks voters may never see in their own state.
