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Abdul El-Sayed’s Blue’s Clues Michigan Senate video mocked online
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The internet is ripping apart far-left Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed after a bizarre “Blue’s Clues” themed campaign video resurfaced, pleading for votes while dancing and singing along to a jingle from the children’s show.
The clip begins with El-Sayed mimicking the “Mail Time” segment in Blue’s Clues. The candidate for U.S. Senate mirrors the host’s exaggerated dance movements, including a little butt wag, and recites the song. He even dons the signature green-stripe collard shirt.
“Here’s the mail, it never fails, it makes me want to wag my tail. When it comes I want to wail, ‘Mail!’” El-Sayed recites at the onset of the campaign video.
Abdul El-Sayed dances in a resurfaced Blue’s Clues themed Senate campaign video, sparking online backlash. (@abdulelsayed via Instgram)
The Michigan socialist then pulls out a ballot from the mailbox, which reads “Abdul for Senate,” and goes on to explain the details and regulations for turning in a ballot.
“It looks like my ballot,” El-Sayed says in the video. “And with it, I can participate in democracy.”
He then continues to tell the viewers the dates by which the ballot must be turned in and postmarked to be counted. He did so, however in the same tone as how the “Blue’s Clues” host speaks to his child audience.
“Vote ski-doo, we can too!” El-Sayed said while shrinking and disappearing into the “Abdul for Senate” picture frame behind him.
This copied yet another bit from the television series, “Blue’s Skidoo, we can too!”, where the host would became part of the cartoon background.
“Um, wut?” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, posted to X about the video.
The clip went viral on social media Wednesday, with supporters from the left arguing the video is playful campaigning. Meanwhiole, conservatives tore into El-Sayed for being cringe and infantilizing the election process by appearing to intentionally direct to campaign video to children.
El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the video.
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Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, films a social media video at a pool party for content creators supporting his campaign, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
“This is genuinely disgusting and patronizing,” one user said. “Treating adult citizens and massive economic issues like a gentle episode of Blue’s Clues is a complete joke. Stop weaponizing our childhood nostalgia for a cynical election campaign. We aren’t children, and we want real.”
“Could be the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” said another.
Yet another user wrote: “Perhaps the most cringeworthy political advert I’ve ever seen. You could hold a gun to my head and I’d still not film this video. What sort of voter finds it appealing to be spoken to like a toddler watching Blue’s Clues?”
“Perfectly appropriate if one believes his voters have the intellect of 4 year olds. It’s so much easier to trick them into socialism at that age.
“No one should be allowed to vote for this,” another user said. “Like, no one. Sorry. This cannot be encouraged.”
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The video was part of the early days of El-Sayed’s campaign.
Now, after narrowly beating moderate Rep. Haley Stevens , D-Mich., in the cutthroat primary election on Aug. 5, the clip has reemerged and gone viral. El-Sayed will go face-to-face with Republican Mike Rogers in the battle for Michigan’s Senate seat in November.
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The controversial progressive has campaigned with socialist streamer Hasan Piker, known for saying “America deserved 9/11,” praising Mao Zedong and Communist China, arguing that capitalists should be murdered in the streets and spewing a litany of antisemitic bile.
Hannah is a Production Assistant for the Politics team at Fox News Digital.
