Rep. Haley Stevens endorses GOP candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race
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Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday, a major shake-up in the final stages of a top battleground race that could determine which party controls the Senate.
“Hey, Michigan, as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said in a video.
“And he’s right, and that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” she said. “I don’t belong in Abdul’s campaign.”
The congresswoman’s announcement marks a whirlwind turnaround from just days ago, when she said she would support her party’s ticket and planned to attend a campaign event on Sunday to support Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
But leading up to the rally, Stevens and El-Sayed released dueling critical public statements, prompting concerns from Democrats that the spat was a distraction from what is widely seen as one of the most competitive Senate races.
Stevens had said that she expected El-Sayed to condemn an ad from an outside group that she said was antisemitic. El-Sayed responded, accusing Stevens of being “intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.”
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The DSA vs Progressives who have a limit to how much antisemitism they will accept.
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why is that a surprise? The dsa is extremely influential among democrats. Of course the majority would stand with the hasan piker wing of the party.
This is how party politics works... Kinda like the majority of the GoP stood with Trump when they ostracized Liz Cheney.
Stevens it doing what I would expect any sane dem to do
She sounds like a vindictive bitch who just ended her career in politics.
Yep. A petty, crying little orchid who took her ball and went home
Any Democrat who would vote for Trump bootlicker and bigot Mike Rogers because Haley Stevens throws a hissy fit is trash.
Any dem that votes for Sayed is not a patriot.
Why?
Why?
No point in even listening to the peanut gallery anymore. Rightwing conservatives who have been defending and making excuses for the January 6th insurrectionists don't know what an American patriot is. They're bitter losers still whining about their ancestors losing the civil war. True American patriots acknowledge that even though his name is Abdul, he's as American as Mike Rogers. But scum bag xenophobic losers will never understand that simple fact about our great nation.
Funny, I feel the same way about anyone that voted for trump.
And that's fucking bullshit! I bet there are many veterans who have enough of fucking rapepublican assholish and bullshit polices who are voting Al-Sayed. And I applaud them!
funny how the self appointed defenders of the constitution have so much difficulty living up to it's ideals ...
they think just because they own a rifle and a handgun they can "defend" America. Some of us liberals got real training on the battlefield) (I don;t include myself, I flew a desk). They would shit their pants if they ever had to meet the enemy on the battlefield
christo-fascists are more dangerous in large groups ...
They need the numbers because they are chicken shit cowards
Haley Stevens showed up on the Scott Jennings show this morning.
That is the problem with our politics of today. Blind partisanship.
Ms Stevens made her position clear. El-Sayed didnt want her on stage with him so she endorses the Republican out of spite.
If she ever runs for office again it will have to be as a Republican.
lol. She was invited to appear and asked el sayed to denounce an anti semitic video produced by Cenk Uygur. Al sayed put anti semitism ahead of party unity and disinvited her.
as I said, it’s the radical like uygur who hate Israel and all who beleive it has a right to exist who now call the shots in the party. Stevens is just radical progressive who doesn’t hate Israel, so, yeah, she’s done as a democrat.
It the piker/uygur party now.
Do have a link to the ad. I'd like to see it.
This is how a pro Israel website describes it
Assuming this description is accurate, what is anti-semitic about it?
Shhhh! You are stepping on their narrative.
Meanwhile, I think Michiganders are realizing they dodged a bullet in the form of Stevens, because if she endorses Rogers now, she can't have been that serious about removing the the Trump boot-lickers in the first place.
I might surprise some people with part of what I am going to say, but so what?
I looked for the ad and found it - Israel Supporters PANIC Over Viral Ad
The part with the husband and wife attacking the idea of the US sending money to Israel is not anti-semitic. It is very critical of Israel, and the US, but it is not anti-semitic. But the ad doesnt end with the couple in the grocery store.
This image is shown near the end ,
and the narrator says "Mike Rogers is for they /them" just as Netanyahu and other Israelis show up on the screen.
This is , at best, a stupid error on the ads part, but I have a feeling Uygur was pandering a little to anti-Semites. I dont know what else would explain such an odd way of describing the prime minister of Israel.
Now, should this cause people to vote for Rogers? Hell no.
You wonder why a commercial blaming Israel for the price of food and resorts to lying about the price of food in order to blame Israel is anti Semitic?
Are you kidding?
Nope. If someone made an ad complaining about the US sending aid to South Korea would it be anti-Asian?
lol. The story of leftist insanity back to the French revolution. The good leftist can do do everything correct and be with the fanatics on every issue until the dissent on one (the right of Israel to exist in this case) and then they get denounced as an enemy of the people, a right deviationist, a reactionary, a bootlicker or whatever label is in fashion to make someone a non person in the party’s eyes. Total conformity to the party’s belief set at the moment is the only way to survive. It’s simply impossible to be a progressive in good standing and maintain any consistent principles for a long period of time.
Make a coherent argument to justify blaming Israel for the price of food rising. You can even Put aside having to lie about the food prices to do it.
It’s not like this is new. The graham platner endorsed Nazis blamed the Jews for inflation in the 20s to and with just as much justification as their idealogical descendants are in Michigan.
Don't you know that any criticism of anything Israeli is antisemitic? It says so on page one of their Little-Read Book: "The Party, and What You Are Permitted To Say."
Since when do political ads have to have a coherent argument? Trump hasnt been coherent in years and he makes political ads coming out the wazoo.
The absence of any rational explanation for signaling out Israel (the only majority jewish nation state) for something it obviously has no control over raises the question of why was Israel signaled out in the first place. Everyone with any sense admits Israel has no effect on food prices (even if the claims in the ad about prices were true). You've admitted you can't argue in good faith a relationship exists, so what could possibly be the purpose?
Throw in the history of the actors involved, and the question is how could any honest person not recognize the antisemitic motivation behind an ad even its defenders admit makes not logical sense? Substituting the word Israel for Jews and running the Nazi playbook is not the cheat code DSA progressives seem to believe it is.
I agree the ad is anti-Israel. Outside of the pretty questionable use of "they/ them" I dont see it as anti-semitic. Even if one buys your argument that Israel has nothing to do with higher food prices that still doesnt make it anti-Semitic.
Party? I belong to no party, capitalized or otherwise. I think about what people say and I respond accordingly.
To wit, I was pointing out the conflict between her campaigning against Trump’s agenda and her endorsement of Rogers, who explicitly promises to advance it.
Hayley Stevens might be visiting a shrinks couch before too long.
I watched it. I laughed at the end. Could you please explain to me precisely how it is anti semitic?
I see that you want JR to give a cogent argument on," ... justify blaming Israel for the price of food rising. You can even Put aside having to lie about the food prices to do it."
Goody. I will give it a go. Netanyahu called DJT and convinced him that it would be a good time to bomb Iran
...against the prevailing knowledge and wisdom of what Iran would do if such a course were pursued. Low and Behold, the prevailing wisdom was correct:They closed the Straight of Hormuz. This sent the world oil markets into a chicken little moment (which they have still not escaped) causing the price of diesel and associated fuels to rise. Most of what gets shipped today uses diesel fuel to make that journey. So when diesel fuel goes up eventually the prices on most everything else goes up commensurately.
It really is basic macroeconomic theory. As man of the world as you are, I am really surprised that you could not work this out on your own.
great response, he is very well spoken and focused.
I know. He might even make a good President someday.
Sure as hell can't get worse than the one we have now.