Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for senator in Michigan, deleted more than 100 YouTube videos from public view, CNN reported Tuesday.But a few of the cable network’s personalities wondered about his choices when they revealed some of the contents of the videos.Andrew Kaczynski presented a “KFile” segment to “OutFront” host Erin Burnett, after examining moments from his “years as a prolific commentator” that El-Sayed presumably thought were politically damaging enough to make private.The comments El-Sayed made in the clips were all in the last four years and some as recent as two years ago, Kaczynski said.In one video now missing from public view, El-Sayed spoke out against fireworks on the Fourth of July. He said they harmed air quality and could trigger PTSD in veterans while posing risks to children and pets, according to the reporter.In April 2023, after a school shooting, El-Sayed proposed tweaking the Second Amendment to “instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have health care,” according to Kaczynski. Whether the remark was simply aspirational in the wake of a gun tragedy was unclear.In 2022, he criticized Republicans for focusing on the southern border, claiming it was not among the top issues that people care about.“You could see why he might choose to take down” some videos, Burnett said. “Others, it’s less clear. So then you sort of wonder: What’s the line that goes through all these things?”The exchange then pivoted to a podcast that was not taken down in which El-Sayed, a former high school football player, drew parallels between slavery and American colonialism with the “ethos of football.”Kaczynski relayed a statement from El-Sayed’s campaign given to CNN.“Abdul is the former captain of his high school football team. He loves Michigan football on Saturdays and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next Michigander. Cherrypicked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his views today,” the statement read.El-Sayed previously defended a report that he had deleted thousands of old tweets at one point ― some of which touted the “defund the police” movement.“I want to be clear, I actually never, never called for defunding,” he told The Detroit News. “My goal in that conversation was to help everybody to understand what we were talking about. Law enforcement exists for a reason, but ideally you want to make sure that there are not folks out there committing crimes in the first place.”El-Sayed, who faces Donald Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers in the general election, is among several progressives vying to help Democrats turn the tables in the November midterms.