Jesse Watters is apparently a bit enamored with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, even though Watters just got his ass kicked by El-Sayed on his show the night before on Fox.
What's really astounding is that Watters said basically the same thing, not once, but twice on different shows this Tuesday.
Fox News host’s shocking admission after interviewing El-Sayed: ‘I like him for some stupid reason’:
Jesse Watters may disagree politically with Abdul El-Sayed, but the Fox News host said he came away charmed after interviewing Michigan's Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.
"He was compelling, a confident guy, kind of a guy's guy – but I don't trust him," Watters said Tuesday while co-hosting "The Five," a day after he interviewed El-Sayed on "Jesse Watters Primetime."
"You know, I like him. I don't want to like him. I like him for some stupid reason, but he's not right for Michigan," Watters said.
Watters did his best to revise history and pretend that the interview went well for him, when the truth is he got his ass handed to him by El-Sayed, who is more intelligent, more informed, and not a lying propagandist who cares more about their career and their paycheck than the people who unfortunately turn to them for "news" as Watters does.
There are a lot of clips from the interview out there on social media. Here's the whole thing. Judge for yourself how this went for Watters and El-Sayed.
"We have one goal right now, to win Michigan, and given the fact my opponent is Mike Rogers, who you agree is a beta, it probably shouldn't be very hard" -- Abdul El-Sayed more than held his own against Jesse Watters, who tried desperately to trip him up on loaded culture war… pic.twitter.com/TbPqRdGz4R
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2026
Fox is going to put a whole lot of highly edited clips out there for damage control, because it's all they've got. I think a lot of Democrats could take some lessons from El-Sayed and how he approached this interview with Watters and how he dismantled him for the most part.
I don't really like Democrats going on Fox in the first place, but if you're going to go on there, he did a whole lot of things right.
