Affordability takes center stage in Michigan’s Senate race

Michiganders are tackling the big question this election season. Is the system working for them? That's the theme that I saw in multiple campaign ads that are plastering the airwaves. And you just walk into the shops and the restaurants here along Michigan Avenue. And what you'll get is an earful about affordability, gas prices, housing costs, worries about jobs, and the impact from Trump's tariffs on Michigan's economy. That is fueling Abdul El's campaign for the Senate. He beat the establishment's choice for Democrat in the primaries with a fraction of the campaign cash. He's raised three times more than his opponent now, former Congressman Mike Rogers. Though Alsed says he's refused corporate campaign donations. That's part of his threeprong platform. Money out of politics, money back in voters pockets, and Medicare for all. Elsa insists he's not a socialist, that he's a capitalist. So, I asked him, "How would he balance Medicare for all against a soaring federal deficit?" >> Let's be clear. When Mike Rogers was in Congress for 14 years, our deficit grew $12 trillion. >> That's more than a quarter of the deficit we have right now. >> So, why does the deficit grow when their parties in power? Because they do two things. They cut taxes on billionaires >> and they take us to wars we got no business fighting and can't get out of. Capitalism requires free entry and exit into markets. Now, I don't think we live in capitalism. I think we live in corporatism. >> And corporations that have too much power, >> they block free entry into markets because they can do one of two things. They can either out compete you or buy you, or they can buy access to politicians who rig the rules against you.