Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Declines to Rank Iran or Israel as Greater Threat
El-Sayed’s refusal to choose between Iran and Israel renewed scrutiny of his foreign-policy positions as polls show him narrowly ahead in the race.
- On Thursday, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers clashed in Grand Rapids, presenting starkly different national security visions on United States military involvement in the Middle East and Israel policy.
- When moderator Rick Albin pressed El-Sayed to identify which country poses a greater threat, the exchange intensified after Rogers invoked the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre, which killed about 1,200 people in Israel.
- El-Sayed replied that both Israel and Iran have "proven dangerous in their own way," accusing Israel of pushing the United States into war and opposing military spending abroad, saying "I don't want our tax dollars buying weapons for other countries."
- Rogers accused El-Sayed of failing to acknowledge the Hamas attack's "pain, the terrorism, the rape, the murders," and challenged his response to the March Temple Israel incident where a truck struck the synagogue with more than 100 children inside.
- El-Sayed's opposition to military assistance has raised concerns among Jewish voters in Michigan, while he accused Rogers of being a "sock puppet" for President Donald Trump and defended his preference for diplomatic solutions based on the Obama administration's nuclear arrangement.
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El-Sayed basically confirms Jewish voters' worst fears about him during chippy debate
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed may have given Jewish voters even more pause about him during the Michigan senatorial debate Thursday night.El-Sayed has struggled on the campaign trail lately. Black and Jewish voters who traditionally vote Democrat have expressed skepticism about El-Sayed, prompting former President Barack Obama to pledge to stump for him in Detroit.'If they were undecided going into this debate, I think Jewish Democrats in Michigan jus…
Swing state Dem candidate caught red-handed Thursday – The Horn News
Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed got into serious hot water on Thursday night when he refused to say whether Iran or Israel poses a greater threat to the United States. Just hours earlier, a new report broke that detailed numerous donations to his campaign from people linked to the Muslim... Read More The post Swing state Dem candidate caught red-handed Thursday appeared first on The Horn News - Proudly American, Fiercely Independent.
In Michigan Senate debate, El-Sayed won't say Iran worse than Israel, or that he’d send defensive weapons to Jewish state
U.S. President Donald Trump said that former Republican congressman Mike Rogers, a “great American patriot” had “completely obliterated” the “jihadist lunatic who hates our country, the black people of Detroit and wants to see the U.S. fail.”
Close up with Abdul El-Sayed
I am preoccupied by the prospect of Abdul El-Sayed taking a seat in the United States Senate. I have Abdul on the brain. We can dwell on Alana Goodman’s Free Beacon story on last night’s debate between El-Sayed and Mike Rogers: “‘Both of Them Have Proven Dangerous in Their Own Way’: Abdul El-Sayed Says Iran and Israel Are Equal Threats to United States.” We have more to think about with
'Israel or Iran?' Michigan Democrat gets three chances to answer — and calls the question ridiculous - The Daily Bo Snerdley
BS BULLETIN: Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly refused to say whether Iran or Israel poses the greater threat to the United States. Debate moderator Rick Albin pressed him three times, prompting El-Sayed to call the question a “ridiculous hypothetical.” Republican Mike Rogers challenged El-Sayed over his Israel positions and his response to the October 7 Hamas massacre. Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Say…
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