El-Sayed has clearly gained momentum in the three-way Democratic primary against U.S. Rep. Haley STEVENS (D-Birmingham) and Sen. Mallory MCMORROW (D-Royal Oak).
Earlier in the Senate race, Republicans appeared to view El-Sayed as the Democrat most vulnerable against likely Republican nominee Mike ROGERS. More recently, Republican organizations and Rogers’s campaign have directed increasingly pointed attacks on El-Sayed and his record.
Republicans have also increasingly inserted themselves into the Democratic primary, including a National Republican Senatorial Committee ad that the Haley Stevens campaign says was intended to elevate El-Sayed. Former Senator Debbie Stabenow, who has endorsed Stevens, has decried the GOP’s meddling in the Democrats’ primary campaign, but this is hypocrisy of the highest order. For years, Democrats have tampered in primaries — witness the Adam Schiff campaign in California two years ago, which took out ads boosting the candidacy of Republican Steve Garvey in that state’s “jungle” primary. Why? Because Schiff was trying to ensure that Garvey made the November runoff that Schiff was sure to win in heavily blue California. Schiff wanted to make sure Garvey finished in the Top Two rather than Democrat Katie Porter, who Schiff was worried he might not beat.
Democrats have even gone a step further, and they’re doing it right now. They’re backing “false flag” candidates running as Independents after Democrats have pressured parties in red states such as Nebraska and Montana to eschew nominating any candidate at all and instead bankrolling and staffing the campaigns of alleged “independents” who, if they manage to win in November, will certainly caucus with Democrats in Washington, D.C.
So, what about all this? If El-Sayed can no longer be dismissed as an afterthought, is he a threat to win not only the Aug. 4 Democratic primary but also the general election in November?
Answer 1): He’s a real possibility not only to win the primary, but to beat Rogers. Yes, Republicans initially believed El-Sayed was unlikely to win the primary and would be easier to defeat if he did. But in the six weeks, El-Sayed has obviously come on strong. El-Sayed has outperformed the early expectations surrounding his candidacy.
Note El-Sayed’s reception at the April 19 Michigan Democratic convention, where he drew enthusiastic support while Stevens was booed by portions of the crowd. Subsequent surveys late last month by five different pollsters — Susquehanna, Quantas Insights, Mitchell Research & Communications, Tulchin Research and Peak Insight — all showed El-Sayed leading by an average of five points. That has only reinforced the possibility that El-Sayed could not only capture the Dem nomination but also beat Rogers in November.
As evidence, El-Sayed’s campaign has been touting the Mitchell poll showing him leading Rogers 47% to 42%, while the same survey showed Rogers leading McMorrow 47% to 41% and Stevens 45% to 41%.
The Susquehanna/Quantas/Mitchell/Tulchin/Peak polls can’t be viewed as outliers. Collectively, their findings carry weight.
MIRS newsletter recently quoted political consultant Adrian HEMOND of Grassroots Midwest thusly: “Republicans are engaging El-Sayed because they want Democratic primary voters to begin viewing the race as a choice between El-Sayed and Rogers. They’re trying to behave as if he has already won the primary, because that’s who they want to run against,” Hemond said. “Republicans need this to be a match-up between Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed if they want to maximize their winning chances.”
Hemond pointed to a cease-and-desist letter Rogers’s campaign sent demanding that El-Sayed stop referring to Rogers as a pharmaceutical lobbyist. Rather than representing a serious effort to end the attacks, Hemond said the letter generated media coverage connecting the two candidates.
“Cease-and-desist letters are not a serious tactic to get people to change their behavior, but they are a way to generate earned media and get people talking about the two of you together,” Hemond told MIRS.
MIRS also quoted John SELLEK, CEO of Harbor Strategic, who agreed with Hemond that Republicans’ focus on El-Sayed is designed to improve his chances of becoming the Democratic nominee.
“The national GOP has wanted El-Sayed as the Democratic nominee and is still pushing for it because he will be much easier to define on issues than Stevens,” Sellek said. “You don’t run ads in another party’s primary unless you have a goal.”
Sellek said the first 26 seconds of the NRSC ad could be viewed positively by many of the Democratic primary voters El-Sayed needs. Sellek noted that the ad features U.S. Sen. Bernie SANDERS nearly as prominently as El-Sayed’s current “Chorus” ad.
At the same time, Sellek said the Republican ad is defining El-Sayed for more moderate voters who are unlikely to participate in the Democratic primary but will vote in the general election.
Sellek opines that El-Sayed is attempting to raise his ceiling among voters outside Southeast Michigan through his “Chorus” ad, which repeatedly describes him as a son of Michigan and includes references to football.
Sellek said El-Sayed’s social media appearances dancing to Whitney Houston and playing “Blue’s Clues” also serve as signals to out-state voters as he tries to expand his electorate beyond Southeast Michigan.
“The GOP is just helping him do so,” Sellek said.
MIRS cites AdImpact data that shows El-Sayed’s ad generated approximately 3.8 million impressions through broadcast television and connected TV between June 16 and June 26. His campaign spent $207,517 on the ad during the 11-day period.
Most of the spending was concentrated in the Detroit media market, where the campaign spent $174,621 for approximately 3.35 million impressions. Another $32,718 was spent in the Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek market, generating nearly 398,000 impressions.
Smaller amounts were directed toward the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Lansing, Traverse City-Cadillac, Marquette and Alpena markets.
Meanwhile, candidates and outside groups are pouring tens of millions of dollars into the contest.
MIRS points to AdImpact data covering advertising in the Michigan U.S. Senate race from Jan. 1 through Election Day that shows approximately $90.2 million in spending and reservations, with about $52.9 million on the Democratic side and $37.2 million on the Republican side.
The Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican-aligned outside group, accounts for approximately $25.8 million, while WinSenate spent approximately $17 million and the United Democracy Project spent approximately $9.9 million.
The spending underscores the degree to which outside organizations are already shaping both the primary and anticipated general-election contest.
MIRS concludes that, for now, Republican attacks on El-Sayed can support two conflicting conclusions: 1) That he has become a more credible threat than Republicans anticipated and they’re trying to “soften him up” for November, OR 2) That Republicans remain convinced he is the Democrat they would most like to face.
If it’s the latter, maybe the National Republican Senatorial Committee should keep in mind the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for.”
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Minutes after this dropped, so did Mallory.
So much for the endorsement of the Detroit Free Press. It seems that Mr. Mitchell’s polling was right.
MI AGDana Nessel just endorsed Haley Stevens following the McMorrow withdrawal announcement.
Yeah, Mallory’s statement of her campaign being suspended basically endorsed the respective policies of both Dr. El-Sayed and Haley Stevens.
Being anti-establishment (she refused corporate PAC and AIPAC funding), I believe the McMorrow withdrawal will likely inure some benefit to Dr. El-Sayed in the race.
The Democrat Party should be declared a RICO, and the entire Biden administration prosecuted for treason. El Sayed can’t recognize the Constitution because he’s a Muslim, so any oath he would mouth swearing allegiance to our founding documents would be a lie. This is the greatest country that has ever been in the history of the world, despite what the loony left says. God bless America.
Think Gary Peters cut the legs off of Mallory McMorrow. That was the goal of the Mitchell poll.
First of all, I hope that all the TBR family had a safe, happy and enjoyable Independence Day. America seems to be a rather young 250!
Nice article and OTR appearance, Bill.
Well, as I write this, Ms McMorrow has left the race leaving the US Senate race to El-Sayed and Stevens. If New York and Colorado are indicative of the Democrats voting patterns, Dr. El-Sayed should do well. New York City is NYC, but the Colorado results seem more instructive. Melat Kiros unseated Diana DeGette, a 30-year veteran of the House, and Rep. DeGette was a rather progressive Democrat. It appears that Rep. DeGette’s “sin” was that she was insufficiently anti-Israel. On July 1st, NBC News reported: “KIROS WAS RECENTLY PRESSED BY NBC AFFILIATE KUSA OF DENVER ABOUT HER COMMENTS THAT HAMAS’ ATTACK ON ISRAEL WAS “THE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF APARTHEID.” IN THE INTERVIEW, SHE WOULDN’T SAY WHETHER A FIREBOMBING ATTACK ON DEMONSTRATORS IN BOULDER, COLORADO, WHO GATHERED TO SUPPORT ISRAELI HOSTAGES WAS ANTISEMITIC.” I believe this is also Rep. Stevens’ “sin”. As to how that will play out in November, I do not know, but antisemitism seems once again to raise its ugly head in both parties now.
As for the last statement in the article, politicians everywhere should always be careful what they wish for. There was a time in California when the Democrats were wishing that Ronald Reagan would run for governor as they thought he was easily beatable. OOPS. Pat Brown screwed the pooch on that one. Regardless of who one’s opponent is, you should never take them lightly. There was a time when poli sci classes taught that. Not sure they do now as it seems too many political consultants seem to have slept through that particular lesson.
Representative Diana DeGette, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, had received more pro-Israel PAC funding – $1.6 million – than any other member of the Colorado U.S. House delegation.
Melat Kiros beat her by a 53%-40% margin in the primary election. Denver political pundits analyzing the lopsided upset loss concluded from questioning of voters she no longer had been adequately serving her constituent’s interests and was perceived as beholden to PAC donors.
DeGette had voted for billions of dollars of arms shipment to Israel and had previously been filmed yelling at a pro-Palestine Democratic Party delegate in a coffee shop. This exchange was uploaded to Instagram and used as a rallying point for Kiros’ campaign.
That’s the point I was making. The ONLY real difference between DeGette and Kiros is Israel. In what is supposed to be a more competitive Colorado race, the 8 the district, an ideological clone of Kiros, state rep Manny Rutinel obliterated Shannon Bird, a more traditional liberal Democrat. Opposition to Israel seems to be THE issue that decided the vote. And that opposition has become Jew hatred.
A while back on Mark Halperin’s Two-Way show, Ed Rogers (veteran GOP consultant and veteran of the Reagan and Bush the Elder administrations) who wrote (or may still write) op-eds for the Washington Post said that when he was dealing with folks like Rutinel and Kiros, he would describe them as Jew haters and Fred Hiatt, the op-ed director for the Post, would always change it to antisemites. Dr. El-Sayed has been far too close to Hasan Piker, an antisemitic, anti-American Marxist (albeit a wealthy one). It would be the same as Mike Rogers getting close to Candace Owens. History has shown us antisemitism in action, and the results are not pretty.
Today’s Democratic Party is not the party of my grandparents or parents. I seriously doubt that Soapy Williams or Frank Murphy would recognize it. Increasingly, I don’t.
Mike Rogers has been generally mum this election cycle on the issues near and dear to AIPAC, although his vast connections to the U.S. intelligence community and his support of the Patriot Act suggest he likely would have some predilection to Israel’s interests.
If Haley Stevens get the Dem nomination, then we can expect him to move a bit closer to Metro Detroit’s Arab-American and Muslim-American communities to secure the votes that would have gone to El-Sayed – as I think comparatively few would vote for Haley Stevens.
On the other hand, should El-Sayed secure the Democratic nomination on August 4th, 2026, Mr. Rogers will likely become an outspoken supporter of Israel’s interests and woo AIPAC support.
You can bank on it.
The TBR article makes references the so-called “United Democracy Project” and the fact they had spent $9.9 million on the Michigan U.S. Senate race from January 1st through Election Day.
Who is this group?
On July 2, 2026, Jewish Insider published its own article indicating “AIPAC-linked United Democracy project is launching its first negative ad in the Michigan Senate race, targeting Abdul El-Sayed…….”
Did this group’s funding convince Mallory McMorrow to withdraw from the race?
The Associated Press noted today:
“While McMorrow did not elaborate on her decision to exit the race, a person with direct knowledge said the biggest factor was the recent influx of outside spending boosting Stevens. The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee has poured millions into ads supporting Stevens, leaving both McMorrow and El-Sayed struggling to keep pace……………”
The decision of Mallory McMorrow to withdraw from the race was immediately reported this afternoon in the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz.
The August 4, 2026 primary election shall be a test of AIPAC’s control over U.S. Congressional races in Michigan. Michigan U.S. Congress candidates Donovan McKinney, William Lawrence, Aisha Farooqui, Diop Harris, Abdul El-Sayed and Kyle Blomquist are all being endorsed by Track AIPAC, a private watchdog group examining and exposing pro-Israel influence in U.S. elections.
Haley Stevens is not an ideal nominee for Dems. She made the auto industry the cornerstone of her political career – yet let the important UAW endorsement slip away to Dr. El-Sayed. She snapped at a Mackinac island candidate debate moderator reasonably questioning her about how AIPAC influences her policy positions – and later also snapped at a reporter in an interview uploaded to YouTube after he made a similar inquiry about her support of Israel.
Dr. El-Sayed on the other hand is a Rhodes scholar who obtained a medical degree from Columbia University. He has been calm and articulate in interviews.
As a GOP activist, I see El-Sayed as the more credible Dem candidate that has the best chance of beating Mike Rogers this November. I am hoping Stevens gets the nomination and continues to drop the ball.
Who runs Track AIPAC?
Two former political consultants to Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman – after both got booted from U.S. Congress. Their names are Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy. It was founded in 2024 as an X account..
It has 400,000 followers on X..
I love this guy he happens to be 100% right
And so is Bernie .THE corporations should pay their fair share . We should Nationalize 1/2 of
AI and with the peoples profits we should pay to inflate social security and Finance Universal health care !
ANSWER 1) In a word, YES. Trends in motion tend to stay in motion, and it appears the demoncrat party is going full blown Communist. A hint of things to come can be found in New Woke City, who elected Mandummy as Mayor. The recent eruption in Colorado is also a sign. (As was AOC in 2018)
Keep in mind the die was cast in 1972 when the looney tunes got more than they deserved at the Demoncrat National Convention. Frankly, I’m surprised it’s taken this long for the calamity to inbred itself in the party of JFK. (Who not only would not recognize, much less be welcome there today)
But his unstoppable motion stops after August 4th. Then the dynamics change profusely. All of the major candidates of the demoncrat party headed into November are either loose cannons or loose screws. None of this bunch will even remotely resemble moderate choices for the Michigan electorate. The GOP, on the other hand, has candidates who can easily appeal to independent voters. None of their candidates can be perceived as threats to Middle America. The contrast is crystal clear.
(PS. Did anyone ever expect MM to get above single digits in any poll? No surprise she left!)
McMorrow was in a statistical dead heat with Mike Rogers in latest polling.
She was likely the strongest and least controversial candidate the Democrats could field in November against Mike Rogers.
Should Haley Stevens win the primary election, the progressive Democrats in Michigan are not likely to vote for her in November.
Virtually no Arab-American groups are endorsing Haley Stevens. That represents 300,000 Michigan residents. There is likely another 300,000 of Michigan residents who vocally oppose U.S foreign policy in the Middle East – Stevens is disliked by these people as well..
“McMorrow was in a statistical dead heat with Mike Rogers in latest polling.”
As was El-Sayad and Stevens. This is how you know that Quantus (and the other guileful pollsters) cooked their Senate Democratic primary poll(s).
Poll results are transitive (used in the mathematical sense). No way was McMorrow at 8% and El-Sayed at 41%, when in the same polling they are within 1% of Rodgers.
Polling is a deceitful enterprise in Michigan.
McMorrow would be more palatable to independent voters than El-Sayed.
She would also likely draw more Arab-American votes than Mike Rogers in a general election – or head-to-head against Haley Stevens.
El-Sayed can be impugned as a quasi-Marxist and Stevens tarred as a stooge of AIPAC.
The public conduct of Haley Stevens – as Leanne has alluded to – is unacceptable for a credible candidate.
Bill,
Is today’s discussion missing or minimizing the impact of the “El-Sayed dislikes women ” TV ads? They look pretty impressive up here in the boondocks !
If they impact the primary, they will impact the general election as well !
The latest Susquehanna poll shows Dr. El-Sayed doing better with likely female voters than the general pool of polled likely voters.
The AIPAC-linked super-PAC “United Democracy Project” described in the TBR article above as well as Leanne’s comment is expected to try to pummel the reputation of El-Sayed with attack ads
AIPAC has taken full credit for the defeat of Thomas Massie in Kentucky – even though Massie’s attacks on a hugely popular Donald Trump there likely caused more problems for Massie.
Hi Bill! You were looking good on Skubic’s OTR the other night. Although I was a little disappointed to hear how anti Trump you were (I think you quoted his approval rating at 25%). I don’t believe polls saying as such. I’m surprised you do. Trump won Michigan arguably 3 times with all Michigan polls indicating he would lose. In a little post-FIFA candor, don’t you believe in miracles? But we still love ya Bill! Don’t forget that.
So, with Michigan poised to nominate, and elect, an Islami-Fascist-racist-Marxist-xenophobe, I thought it might be instructive to opine once again on the process it takes to transform into a socialist/communist. With the Vietnam War still raging, I was wondering what kind of people it took to take such pounding we were giving the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Vietcong. How did they stay so motivated while at the same time East Berliners were sacrificing themselves attempting to broach the Berlin Wall? So, at a fairly young age, I undertook to understand the process that brings people to believe in such a crazy ideology. After years and years, I discovered wise writings expounding the bottom line. They are optimists. Here is the simple process:
1. They begin with optimism. Ever get asked by your elementary school teacher whether you believed the glass was half full, or half empty? Then she would launch into a discussion of how optimists were such better people than pessimists. It’s a subtle grooming process most parents don’t see in their little darlings.
2. They believe in the inherent good nature of humans. Unlike the Judeo-Christian ethic which believes in the fallen corrupt nature of human beings, socialist/communists believe humans are inherently good and can govern themselves without government . . . given enough education. In other words, throw 2 or more (properly educated) good-natured people into a room to hammer out a problem, or an issue, and they will invariably come up with the best solution. Never mind the brow beating the nonconformist(s) takes standing up against the ”mob” of the indoctrinated. Meanwhile, the skeptic believes x common (unindoctrinated) people will come up with x number of suspect solutions. Hence why most all socialist/communists are anarchists at heart.
3. The question comes down to how to educate/indoctrinate the people? Socialists believe it doesn’t much matter the form of government imposed upon the people as long as they are provided the control of the education system. Hence, proto-Marxists like Melvil Dewey wanted a system to combat Christianity as much as he wanted a system of organization. Later, tools such as Darwin’s, “On the Origen of Species” and the Scopes Monkey Trial were all used as tools to leverage the US education system away from un-organized Christianity and into a secular environment. The secularization of the education system was a prelude to socialist control.
3a. Socialists work within a government framework to wrest control of the education system to properly indoctrinate the masses into lawless (the end justifies the means), godless, anarchistic control (hint: they are conditioned to believe this is a good thing).
3b. Because there are humans deemed un-educatable (who resist indoctrination, esp. Jews/Christians), Communists believe the education process will not work unless the government assumes full control. Control of government must precede control of education. Hence the insatiable desire of Communists to expand their control over, literally, the entire world.
4. The question becomes, for both Socialists and Communists: what to do with the un-educatable masses? There is documented work after documented work on this subject. End result is to get rid of them. In any way possible. They do not deserve to live. Hence, Pogrom after Pogrom, Stalin’s purges, Mao’s purges, Cambodia’s Killing Fields, Hitler’s final solution, the genocide of Armenia and on and on and on. Antisemitism today is just another manifestation of Socialist/Communists getting rid of the un-educatable.
Dr El Sayed is just another socialist/communist spreading the siren song of pseudo-freedom which is nothing but a trap leading to all myriad forms of slavery, subjugation and genocide. Unless of course you are one of the few comrades selected to be more equal than the others.
Thank you, Bill, for your free platform allowing truth to be told.
Do you equate Stalinism with anti-Semitism? Most of his inner circle was Jewish, including his wife, and the Council of Peoples Commissars – his cabinet.
It was the Red Army that liberated most of the Nazi concentration camps.
Israel’s most influential political party during the First Knesset seated in 1949 was Mapai which had the hammer and sickle on its emblem.
Bernie Sanders during his residence in Israel stayed on a Stalinist-style kibbutz. Dr. El-Sayed, of course, is endorsed by him.
Right now the only political party in the Knesset where Jews and Arabs act constructively together is the Marxist-oriented Hadash.
Granted, the Khmer Rouge committed one of the most heinous genocides in the 20th century -upon its own people. Anyone who was literate was executed – one million perished.
Palestine has become the moral litmus test for the Progressive Democrats – and Haley Stevens has failed this test. Just as Vietnam was the test in the 1960s and South Africa was in the 1980s. Nobody is clamoring to restore the Republican of Vietnam in the south or to bring back apartheid in South Africa – and likewise the State of Israel as the world has known it will cease to exist in its current form as a military-police state.
Abdul El-Sayed is a populist hero to Michigan’s youth. Haley Stevens is viewed as a captive to corporate and pro-Israel PACs – her loyalties are to her campaign donors. Stevens lacks character and no one should vote for her – she is anathema to most Michigan college students, the Arab-American community, and to the UAW.
I support Mike Rogers in this election cycle. I proudly campaigned for him in 2024. He is a U.S. Army veteran and investigated human trafficking and organized crime during his FBI service. He cares about America, its veterans and law enforcement.
“Do you equate Stalinism with anti-Semitism? Most of his inner circle was Jewish, including his wife, and the Council of Peoples Commissars – his cabinet.”
As Stalin took over the levers of power in the USSR, he dramatically reduced the number of Jews in positions of influence. 40% to 60% of the Soviet Politburo was Jewish in the years leading up to Stalin taking control in 1926. Afterwards, it never exceeded 22%. At no time did the Jewish population of the USSR exceed 5%, so Jews were overrepresented in the Soviet hierarchy, even after Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaigns.
Stalin’s opinion of Jews fluctuated over the years. During the years of his competition with Trotsky, he was extremely anti-Semitic. He made certain that all the Old Bolsheviks of Jewish descent got executed during the purges. He also executed a lot of lower level Jews, who he labeled “cosmopolitans”.
Stalin abruptly suspended his anti=Semitism on 22 June 1941. He found Jews to be useful conduits to the West throughout WW II. Stalin experienced severe health problems in the final days of WW II and played no role in demographics until he recovered in 1947.
Stalin supported Israel strongly at the outset because he thought it would become a Communist outpost. After the Israelis demonstrated their affinity for the United States, Stalin resumed and intensified anti-Semitic campaigns up until his death by poisoning devised by a Jewish doctor. That doctor was reacting to the final, and largest, anti-Semitic campaign of Stalin’s. The Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps of the USSR was constructing four huge new GULAGs in the southern Urals which were going to be used to exterminate the bulk of the USSR’s Jewish population.
Just a few counter points:
1. Stalin didn’t even talk to his wife in the later stages of their marriage. She more and more turned against him vocally and publicly (as much as she could). Most historians believe he murdered his wife.
2. The Trotsky-esque Jews of course were part of the early government. Many also were holdovers from the Czarist/Leninist government as well (you’ve got to have somebody run the government in the transition). But as the term implies, purge after purge winnowed them out including, unmentioned here, Christians. 30 to 50 million estimated dead.
3. Many early Jews came to Israel from the USSR and naturally brought socialistic elements to the brand-new nation. The kibbutzim system helped Israel through its infancy, but more and more is giving way to more effective forms of civil administration.
4. The Hadash party is not the ONLY political group acting constructively between Arab and Jewish communities. They are arguably the biggest, but there are myriad others.
5. Bernie Sanders is the poster child of liberal thinking Jews who just don’t understand which way is up. Similar thought to what goes on in a mind when the Nazis coerced the Jewish inmates to burn and bury the gassed bodies, and keep their mouths shut. Haley Stevens would do much better as a Republican given the treatment she gets from the Democrats. Too bad there are too many in the Republican party telling them to stay home. Alan Dershowitz, I believe, is the tip of a wave of Jews heading to the Republican party whether the Candice Owens/Tucker Carlson’s of the world like it or not.
6. Patriot Act Mike Rogers is one of the main reasons the Democratic party thought it could get away with performing a silent coup on the US through coordinated espionage and law enforcement action against conservative operators. Talk about someone who will fight like hell for us, all the while with a knife blade in our backs . . . sheeesh. God Bless Edward Snowden, or we’d never have known.
Mike Rogers has been derided as “Florida Mike” or “Patriot Act Mike” by his detractors.
Civil libertarians within the Republican Party have excoriated him over his support of the Patriot Act and its broad scope that has been argued with some success by the ACLU in legal constitutional challenges.
To some, he personifies the dreaded “Deep State” and a proponent of the exponential increase in power and funding to the U.S. intelligence community.
Do we like him better than Dr. El-Sayed?
Monty, I’ll take door number three, please . . .
I was hoping that Genevieve Peters Scott or Bernadette Smith could have made the primary election ballot to oppose Rogers.
Many, many grassroots GOP activists have sounded alarm bells over Rogers and his vast ties to the intelligence establishment.
He also was initially a stern critic of Donald Trump. Things have changed.
I have heard him speak at events. He is a huge supporter of the U.S. defense establishment.
Right now Polymarket is choosing the Dems as 70% favorites to retain the set held by Senator Peters. I think that overly favors Dems.
I can at least say that El-Sayed and Rogers would be competent candidates and potential officeholders to promote their respective agendas. Haley Stevens does NOT belong in the U.S. Senate.
“Right now Polymarket is choosing the Dems as 70% favorites to retain the set held by Senator Peters. I think that overly favors Dems.”
Polymarket only has $ 122,000 in bids on the Michigan Seante race, not enough to be accurate or avoid manipulation. Little Maine’s Senate race has $ 970,000 in bids on their General. This would be close to the threshold of accuracy.
Heather Lombardini pleaded guilty last week to using a computer to commit a crime, a misdemeanor. All her other charges dismissed. She was ordered to pay a fine of $ 125, Bet Sandra Baxter is fuming.
Ms. Lombardini recd. NO fine, NO probation and NO jail time. Thomas W. Cranmer represented her.
The $125.00 represented the aggregate of judicially-imposed court costs plus statutory assessment earmarked to the Crime Victims Compensation Fee.
Baxter got 20 hours of community service, $2,500 fine and 90 days of probation on her misdemeanor plea agreement.
Campaign finance lawyer Bob LaBrant – a TBR regular – in the Detroit News called the Heather Lombardini plea agreement a “slap on the wrist” that will not deter future similar violations.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed shall be the first Muslim to serve in the hallowed chambers of the U.S. Senate.
His candidacy has caused great consternation among the Israel Lobby and racist segments of American society – much like when Hiram Revels became the first black man to be seated in the U.S. Senate.
His race is being covered in real time in Israel. His positions are despised by many Democratic insiders.