Michigan Senate debate turns combative between Mike Rogers and Abdul El‑Sayed
Mike Rogers went full MAGA against Abdul El-Sayed. He may have scored points with MAGA, but he sounded like an Islamophobic bigot, repeatedly invoking Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda to turn his opponent’s Muslim identity into a national security threat.
Christopher Webb176Ugly, calculated, and straight out of the MAGA playbook.
D. Earl Stephens54Always, always, always with the bigotry. Of course he's a Florida Man, so ...
jranch4.bsky.social29What I heard Mike Roger's say with all that noise, "I have nothing of substance or solutions, but I am a raging racist!"
Ladida20The irony is that the maga gop is like the taliban….just in suits, no long beards, and invoking a different god
Gay Illini alum 🏳️🌈12Rogers is losing. Muslims didn’t do this to our country, men like him did. Our enemies are not each other. It’s wealthy white men, and the GOP.
tripeee.bsky.social11Remember what they said about Catholics in 1960.
Shoddy WaPo write-up of El-Sayed/Rogers debate by Erin Cox. El-Sayed never said a word about Rogers's mom, so "exchanging words about each other’s mothers" is both-sides baloney. Then she repeats Rogers's lies about El-Sayed and just says El-Sayed denies them. wapo.st/4ibaMld
Kate Tuttle12This entire election cycle will be Democratic candidates and voters against not only Republicans but also a hostile press.
Dennis D.5I would hope that nobody not in the cult still holds on to the "liberal bias of the press" myth. We've all seen the sh*t storm that happens when a Democratic is caught in one inaccuracy, versus the upraised "whattya gonna do" palms in the face of mountains of GOP lies and corruption.
CRobertBuchanan2WaPo is a fascist rag and anyone still working their is doing that work.
George Vona2WaPo is a Bezos vehicle that used to do journalism. This is just about protecting his monopoly.
richhf.bsky.social1Glad Mich voters don’t care what WaPo says
The comments on the story have very active MAGA participation - unusual. No WaPost-AI summary (yet?). Erin Cox ignored El-Sayed’s “He’s going after the Peeping Tom vote!” based on Rogers’ old statement, “Spying on the public isn’t a violation of your privacy if you don’t know about it”.
The contentious hourlong grudge match between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed followed weeks of the two candidates sparring online and in advertisements that have flooded the state in the highly competitive campaign for an open Senate seat. https://to.pbs.org/4dxHCu5
Lpeterp6What a nasty way to report a debate. Maybe PBS thinks it a "grudge match" because the Democrat repeatedly called out the Republican's lies and mendacity.
Travis Sinquefield2I’m old enough to remember when PBS used to be respected. I see that is no longer the case with this bullshit.
codeMonkey232Completely unsurprising you find several ways to praise Rogers, and the last half the article in an attack on El-Sayed.
Kim2Whoever wrote this needs to get a job at Fox
gertrude1907.bsky.social1Watched it. Rogers sounded like an unarmed person engaged in a battle of wits.
G1Why is El-Sayed’s almost nonexistent relationship with a twitch streamer being compared with Mike Rogers’ very real relationship with the man currently turning the world upside down in the Oval Office?
