Showing posts with label Rogers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogers. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Fact check: Rogers' claims about El-Sayed's mother don't match the evidence

The allegations follow a pattern for Rogers. He’s accused El-Sayed and his family of being linked to Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, but has not provided evidence… 

Do Rogers’ allegations withstand scrutiny? No…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-10-24/fact-check-rogers-claims-about-el-sayeds-mother-dont-match-the-evidence


Tuesday, October 20, 2026

A bitter Michigan Senate race rattles Jewish and Muslim voters already on edge over the war in Gaza | PBS News

In the Detroit suburbs, some Jewish Democrats are confronting deeply personal questions about faith and identity as they weigh whether they can support their party's nominee. Just miles away in Dearborn, Arab American leaders who backed President Donald Trump two years ago are growing increasingly alarmed by Republican rhetoric…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-bitter-michigan-senate-race-rattles-jewish-and-muslim-voters-already-on-edge-over-the-war-in-gaza 


 

Mike Rogers said Abdul El-Sayed didn’t disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Video shows he did – PolitiFact

When a town hall attendee asked Democratic Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, El-Sayed said, “Sure, yeah, absolutely.” 

El-Sayed then challenged the question, saying it implies that his Muslim faith makes him disloyal to the U.S. Constitution…

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/oct/19/mike-rogers/el-sayed-muslim-brotherhood-michigan-senate/


 

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Vance, Rogers keep up attacks on El-Sayed during Michigan rally

For El-Sayed, however, Vance, Rogers, and others went a step further and tried to connect him specifically to terrorist groups. Rogers continued a line of attacks from a debate last week. 

El-Sayed, a Michigan-born and raised son of Egyptian immigrants, has called the claims unserious and ridiculous. While speaking at a campaign rally in Marquette Thursday night, El-Sayed responded to Vance’s insults. 

“When you’ve got a name like mine you see the best of us, and too often sometimes you see the worst of us. And there are always a few very loud people who are small and want to make us small like them,” El-Sayed said…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-10-16/vance-rogers-keep-up-attacks-on-el-sayed-during-monroe-rally


Monday, August 31, 2026

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

A New York Times fact check pointed out that the second part of Rogers’s “incendiary statement” was false: it was not El-Sayed, but one of his supporters, the Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who once said that the US deserved 9/11, before retracting and apologizing for that statement seven years before he endorsed El-Sayed. 

 For his part, El-Sayed has clearly denounced the 9/11 attacks for years. In a recollection of that day written in 2021, El-Sayed wrote: “

I watched terrorists with names like mine attack my country in the name of my faith. Three thousand of my fellow Americans were killed in the craven terrorist attacks in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. The attack devastated me.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/michigan-senate-candidate-mike-rogers-osama-bin-laden


 

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

In Michigan Senate race, Mike Rogers falsely ties Abdul El-Sayed to Twitch streamer’s 9/11 comments – PolitiFact

Influencer and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker said “America deserved 9/11” in a 2019 livestream, and later walked back the comment. 

Abdul El-Sayed campaigned with Piker in April. El-Sayed said in an interview just before the campaign events that he does not believe 9/11 was justified...

 https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/07/mike-rogers/abdul-el-sayed-9-11-hasan-piker-michigan/ 


Thursday, April 16, 2026

Slotkin’s Iowa moves and big money comes to Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race

A huge influx of funds looks to boost Republican Mike Rogers’ campaign for U.S. Senate, current U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin heads to Iowa spurring questions about whether she’s interested in the presidency, and more questions about what’s next for Governor Gretchen Whitmer once she leaves office. It’s a political roundup of the week’s news on It’s Just Politics. Jason Roe, political strategist and former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party and Portia Roberson, CEO of Focus Hope and Vice Chair of the Michigan Democratic Party are this week’s guests…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/podcast/its-just-politics/2026-04-15/slotkins-iowa-moves-and-big-money-comes-to-michigans-open-u-s-senate-race


Friday, November 1, 2024

Elissa Slotkin's Strategy Might Beat Trumpism | HuffPost Latest News

But Slotkin has heard from local Republican officials who say they are tired of Trump's "chaos," and from Republican women angry over their party's attack on reproductive rights. "The window is open," Slotkin said. "These people are deciding, what am I going to do?"…







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