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Abdul El-Sayed and Mark Kelly, the Policies Republicans Must Confront: Jim Pfaff on Worldview Tube — Washington Report | Oct 6, 2026

Published: October 6, 2026
Network: Worldview Tube
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff

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With the midterms 30 days out, the Washington Report on Worldview Tube spent its October 6, 2026 edition on two Democrats and what they stand for: El-Sayed and Mark Kelly. Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed told Fox News his state’s failing schools need more money, and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly pitched a tax increase on incomes over $1 million as the way to lower costs. Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff answered both, and took on the DSA “ick factor,” a Wisconsin ad that calls Democrats accomplices, and Bill Maher’s case against the Democratic Socialists of America.

Topics Covered

• Thirty Days Out: Trump on the Ballot and a Congress That Stalled
• The DSA Ick Factor and the Democrats Who Can’t Vote for El-Sayed
• Accomplices: The Tom Tiffany Ad Against David Crowley
• Bill Maher, the DSA Platform and Common Cause
• Michigan’s $21,300 Per Child and the Case for School Choice
• El-Sayed and Mark Kelly: You Cannot Tax a Country Into Prosperity
• Key Takeaways

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Thirty Days Out: Trump on the Ballot and a Congress That Stalled

The host opened on President Trump’s rally schedule: he is campaigning for the midterms, the host said, as if he were running for president again. Pfaff found it concerning that the rallies are in red states right now, but he was still quite hopeful and said he thinks the numbers bear out that no particular disaster is necessarily impending.

“He is on the ballot. He’s recognizing he’s on the ballot as well, too. And I think that’s going to be necessary to bring Republicans over the top because not every Republican is doing what they need to do to help with all that. But boy, we’re on a 30-day roller coaster here.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The momentum, he said, is running in the direction of Republicans. The weakness is in Congress: the only reason Democrats have any opening, Pfaff said, is that Republicans have not done a good enough job setting out the message, which he called very typical of RINO Republicans. The host added the Save America Act. Pfaff said it was political stupidity to pass only the one big beautiful bill. Republicans had planned two or three reconciliation packages, he said, then refused a follow-up of equal substance, particularly John Thune. Still, he said, Democrats’ numbers are at historic lows, and if Republicans stop the bleeding, it will be because Democrats are so hated and Donald Trump works so hard.

The DSA Ick Factor and the Democrats Who Can’t Vote for El-Sayed

Pfaff had sent the host a clip of an MS NOW panel of Michigan Democrats on Abdul El-Sayed. The moderator described them as committed Democrats who want to vote for the Democratic candidate but just can’t. On the panel, the damage was described as already done, and one participant said they would love for El-Sayed to make a definitive statement that he supports Israel and the Jewish people. The host asked whether that was just older Democrats. Pfaff said it was broader.

“I think there is a general DSA ick factor, DSA meaning Democrat Socialists of America. I think the American people generally, and in this case including Democrats, really look at that whole movement with a jaundiced eye.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Democrats have not been as negative on the Squad, he said, but he thinks they are now putting AOC and the Squad in with the DSA, because some of them have been DSA members. He called the ick factor an intangible in the undertow of the election that people are not properly evaluating. A large contingent of independents, and some Democrats, have a problem with the anti-Israel positions. They are not saying Israel is evil, he said; that is the radical left of the Democrat Party and the Tucker Carlson contingent. “It’s going to make for an interesting election night,” he said.

The host noted that candidates from that wing have not done well in elections lately, on either side, citing Wisconsin, where Francesca Hong lost the Democratic primary for governor to David Crowley. TCC covered El-Sayed’s rise in Pfaff’s analysis of why Michigan is the DSA’s next test case.

Accomplices: The Tom Tiffany Ad Against David Crowley

Crowley is getting caught up anyway, Pfaff said, because of immigration. The host played the ad from Crowley’s Republican opponent, Tom Tiffany. It opens on Crowley’s own voice: “When it comes down to the immigrants, I’m not an ally. I’m an accomplice.” Between repetitions of that line, a narrator lists cases: in Dane County, a repeat drunk driver and illegal immigrant killed two teenagers; in Fond du Lac, an illegal immigrant tied up and blindfolded a 12-year-old girl to rape her; in Milwaukee, a drunk illegal immigrant killed a Special Olympian on his way to church. It closes: “David Crowley stands with illegal immigrants, not you.”

Pfaff had sent the ad to his friend Vicki McKenna, whose Madison and Milwaukee show he is on regularly. She told him it is having an effect.

“This is an effective ad. And frankly, this should be repeated all over the country. This perfectly epitomizes that Democrats really are the accomplices in all of the negative things that have happened with illegal immigration, whether it’s all the crime, rape, murder, assault, whether it’s the fraud in Minnesota.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

On Minnesota, Pfaff said The Conservative Caucus is putting out a fraud ad in support of Michele Tafoya, explaining how her opponent, the current lieutenant governor, worked with Tim Walz. Fraud, illegal immigration and the economy are big items for voters everywhere, he said.

“We’ve got to make it clear that there is a big, big problem with what Democrats have done in our society. They are complicit. They are accomplices to every negative that comes both to economy and to immigration. That is the message that Republicans should be telling everywhere.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Bill Maher, the DSA Platform and Common Cause

The host said the MS NOW town hall produced more Democrats who cannot support El-Sayed, including a woman who said he is using them. First he played a recent Bill Maher monologue. Maher read the DSA platform, “You work as much as you are able and no more than needed,” and said that if it were any closer to Karl Marx’s “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” they would be sued for plagiarism. He noted New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani once tweeted Marx’s words exactly, and the host said Maher went on to quote Cea Weaver of Mamdani’s administration on impoverishing the white middle class.

Pfaff said he agrees with Maher on hardly anything, from God to many political positions. But Maher understands the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as pivotal to a truly free society, where conservatives like Charlie Kirk can go on his show and argue. Conservatives come on his program, Maher says, because they talk; the leftist radicals will not, because they do not want to be accountable to anything.

“The reality is that if you don’t have this foundation of liberty, based on the Constitution as it is, you don’t have any liberty at all. And he knows that these DSA members, particularly the Islamic ones, that they will come and destroy the country.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Maher also rightly has strong disagreements with Sharia law, Pfaff said. The two will go back to beating up on one another politically sometime, but on this he takes common cause, and he admires Maher for taking flak from his own political allies. He said he would stick with Maher on this point, because it is fundamental to the country’s future freedom.

“We have to point it out because it is a danger to our future if we allow this DSA way of thinking to have any strong foothold in our political system.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Michigan’s $21,300 Per Child and the Case for School Choice

The first of the policies from El-Sayed and Mark Kelly came from El-Sayed’s interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News the day before. MacCallum told him only 25% of fourth graders in his home state read proficiently, and asked why government would do a great job with health care. El-Sayed said the schools are “deeply underfunded” because school taxes follow property values, cited redlining, and said failing districts are failing “because of government policies where we did not invest enough.” A mediocre health care system, he said, is a choice to let health care CEOs “eat first.” MacCallum countered that Newark, in her home state of New Jersey, spends more per student and still fails.

The host said money is not the problem, and Pfaff had looked up the numbers. Adding $7,000 a year would not take Michigan’s schools to where Webb is, he said. Webb was an Ivy League feeder in his day and remains one; its alumni include Vermont Royster, longtime editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Wayne Rogers of M*A*S*H fame, whom Pfaff called one of the greatest investors in American history. If Michigan used its $21,300 to do what his alma mater does, he said, it could do something quite similar, if it were willing to make its education right.

“See, the problem is you need school choice. And by the way, you don’t need more money. You need school choice.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Then Pfaff turned to El-Sayed’s claim to love America. He said El-Sayed was an Egyptian and American dual citizen, though he did not know the current status, that he has ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, and that he has been critical of people who oppose implementing Sharia law in this country. One of TCC’s commercials going into Michigan, he said, replays that very thing.

“He is not pro-America. He does not love this country. He certainly benefits from it. And so if you love that about the country, well, that’s one thing. But to love the country is to believe in its ideals.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Maher and El-Sayed surely agree on certain policies, Pfaff said, but he would risk Bill Maher over El-Sayed all day long, because Maher really does love this country. People like El-Sayed, he said, are on a mission to radically transform it if they can obtain the power. “This guy’s a liar,” he said.

El-Sayed and Mark Kelly: You Cannot Tax a Country Into Prosperity

After the break, the host tied El-Sayed’s call for more school money to a clip of Mark Kelly on how Democrats would lower costs if they win the House and/or the Senate.

The host asked how that has worked out in California, with the country’s highest taxes and highest cost of living. “And you can’t do business,” Pfaff said. Then he did the math.

“If you confiscated all the wealth of all of the wealthy people in this country, you could barely fund our government for one year. I mean, that’s how obscene it is.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Wealth confiscation has actually been discussed, he said, a fight TCC covered in Pfaff’s analysis of the AI fear campaign and wealth confiscation. The only ways to confiscate that wealth, he said, are to sell off the companies, leave them doing business under a foreign power, or buy stakes in them, which costs money.

“They will destroy everything to maintain power. There are no amount of taxes that can make a country successful. You cannot tax a country into prosperity. Prosperity comes from what the citizens do, not what the government does.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

His example was health care, the ground El-Sayed staked out on Fox. Obamacare did not stop people from falling through the cracks, Pfaff said, and he is one of them: he has no health care right now because he will not pay Obamacare’s prices, and TCC has not yet instituted a health plan. Without Obamacare, he said, he could find private coverage at a price he would pay, with choices catered to what people need, “not what some government bureaucrat tells them they ought to have.”

That is the dividing line. El-Sayed and Mark Kelly want government to invest more; Pfaff wants it to do less. Government provides benefit in only a few areas, he said, and always poorly: a justice system so the harmed can make the person who harmed them pay; a military, which Milton Friedman could find no good private way to provide; and infrastructure within the scope of Article I, Section 8, with much of the rest left to the states.

“We could have tremendous prosperity in this country if we didn’t have people like Mark Kelly and even some Republicans who sat in Congress all year long doing things that are no good for us. And that is the real frustration with this election season for a lot of Americans. They’re very frustrated because Democrats want to destroy any hope for opportunity and Republicans aren’t doing enough to fight for it.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Key Takeaways

1. Trump is on the ballot – Pfaff says momentum is running toward Republicans 30 days out, but Congress never followed the one big beautiful bill with a second package.
2. The DSA ick factor is real – Even committed Democrats on an MS NOW panel said they cannot vote for Abdul El-Sayed, and Pfaff says the effect is underestimated.
3. Democrats are accomplices – Pfaff wants the Tiffany ad’s message on crime, illegal immigration and fraud repeated nationwide.
4. Common cause with Bill Maher – Pfaff disagrees with Maher on most things but stands with him against the DSA.
5. School choice, not more money – At about $21,300 per Michigan child, Pfaff says funding is not what separates public schools from an elite boarding school.
6. El-Sayed and Mark Kelly want more government – Pfaff says you cannot tax a country into prosperity; prosperity comes from what citizens do.

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About The Conservative Caucus:
The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots public policy action organization, formed in 1974. Headed by President Jim Pfaff, the Caucus is committed to advancing free enterprise, limited government, and traditional values.

Originally broadcast Oct 6, 2026 on Worldview Tube — Washington Report.