Obama rallies rapturous Michigan crowd for El-Sayed: ‘He’ll finish the job we started’

Former president speaks to crowd of thousands in support of Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate and Democratic ticket

Barack Obama told a Detroit crowd on Saturday that Abdul El-Sayed was fighting for change, real change, that will get money out of politics and put money in your pocket", as he threw his weight behind the Democratic Senate candidate and the rest of the ticket on the first day of early voting in Michigan.

Obama said in front of thousands of onlookers at Cass technical high school in Detroit that El-Sayed would finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act and guarantee quality, affordable healthcare to every single American".