Rogers uses RNC midterm platform to attack El-Sayed as Dems push back against Islamophobic rhetoric

By: Ben Solis

Outlets: Michigan Advance

Published: September 11, 2026

Words: 1,493

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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The campaign of Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers had a national audience on Thursday night as he spoke at the party’s midterm convention — a platform he used to level attacks against his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.

Much of Rogers’ speech, however, focused on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and at the Pentagon, relating the threat of Islamic terrorism to the campaign of El-Sayed, which Democrats …

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