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Sanders Rallies With El-Sayed in Michigan Amid Trump Visit
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In Short: Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to rally with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Grand Rapids, as President Trump visits the state for a rally.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is set to rally with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D - MI) in Grand Rapids on Sunday, the first stop in a two-day tour of the state. The event, scheduled at the DeVos Performance Hall, marks Sanders' latest effort to support Democratic candidates in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
According to organizers, Sanders will also appear in Alpena for a rally titled 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here' at The APlex at 1 p.m. on Sunday. This visit comes as President Donald Trump is expected to rally for Republican candidates Mike Rogers and John James in Port Huron.
Sanders' visit to Michigan follows a similar rally by former President Barack Obama for Democratic candidates in Detroit on Saturday. Obama's appearance was part of a broader effort to mobilize support for Democratic candidates in the state.
El-Sayed's campaign has faced criticism from some quarters, particularly over his association with Hasan Piker, a far-left streamer. Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary for the Senate seat to El-Sayed, has called on him to distance himself from Piker, describing the association as 'profoundly disappointing and not helpful.'
Stevens has also criticized Sanders' Middle East policy, asserting that his anti-Zionist stance is a 'sickness' that needs to end. She argued that El-Sayed's support for Sanders could jeopardize Democratic chances in Michigan, particularly among Jewish voters and Reagan-era Democrats.
Despite the criticism, El-Sayed has maintained his support from Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, campaigning on issues like Medicare for All and rejecting corporate PAC money. He has also received backing from former President Obama, who will appear with El-Sayed and gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson on the first day of Michigan’s early voting.
Sanders' office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the criticism of his Middle East policy.
What this adds
Sanders' visit to Michigan comes as President Donald Trump arrives in the state for a Midterm Rally in Port Huron.
Background
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit on Oct. 24.
Bernie Sanders rallied Texas Democrats in El Paso, while Senate candidate James Talarico held a separate event in Fort Worth.
What's confirmed
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is set to rally with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D - MI) in Grand Rapids on Sunday, the first stop in a two-day tour of the state. The event, scheduled at the DeVos Performance Hall, marks Sanders' latest effort to support Democratic candidates in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
- According to organizers, Sanders will also appear in Alpena for a rally titled 'Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here' at The APlex at 1 p.m. on Sunday. This visit comes as President Donald Trump is expected to rally for Republican candidates Mike Rogers and John James in Port Huron.
- Sanders' visit to Michigan follows a similar rally by former President Barack Obama for Democratic candidates in Detroit on Saturday. Obama's appearance was part of a broader effort to mobilize support for Democratic candidates in the state.
- Stevens has also criticized Sanders' Middle East policy, asserting that his anti-Zionist stance is a 'sickness' that needs to end. She argued that El-Sayed's support for Sanders could jeopardize Democratic chances in Michigan, particularly among Jewish voters and Reagan-era Democrats.
- Despite the criticism, El-Sayed has maintained his support from Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, campaigning on issues like Medicare for All and rejecting corporate PAC money. He has also received backing from former President Obama, who will appear with El-Sayed and gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson on the first day of Michigan’s early voting.
- Sanders' office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the criticism of his Middle East policy.
What's still developing
- — Senator Bernie Sanders is joining the list of political leaders visiting Michigan ahead of the state's Nov.
- El Sayed, locked in a race that will likely prove crucial to determining majority control of the upper chamber in November, was leading Republican nominee Mike Rogers by 1.9 percentage points early Sunday morning in the RealClearPolitics polling average, while Rep. John James (R-MI), the Republican gubernatorial nominee, is trailing his opponent, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, by just over 6 points.
- “We are not going to agree on every detail of every issue,” Obama told a packed crowd at Cass Technical High School in downtown Detroit.
- As he told me when we spoke recently for The New Yorker Radio Hour, his influences include both Bernie Sanders, a socialist, and Barack Obama, a liberal Democrat.
- Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Abdul El-Sayed, the front-runner in Michigan’s Democratic primary for Senate, is sometimes lumped together with other rising stars on the left.
- "It is a well-established fact that the Israeli government has targeted and killed civilians. Leading human rights organizations and scholars, including Israeli scholars, have documented it as genocide," Rashid said.
- "And she’s also jeopardizing losing the state of Michigan to MAGA Republicans. This is not being thoughtful or logical. It certainly is not following the call of international human rights law and constitutional law that she took a sworn oath to uphold."
- "I really don’t know what Bernie Sanders has done for peace in the Middle East, for Palestinian dignity; I can’t think of anything he’s totally done. It’s a sickness that needs to end. You know, it’s a linkage towards extremism or jihad, I don’t know," she said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
- "It certainly makes sense to get rid of this Hasan Piker affiliation," she said during an interview with Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing" in August, also asserting that the Democratic plans for healthcare, democracy and Black-owned businesses are better than those of El-Sayed's Republican opponent Mike Rogers.
- Asked whether El-Sayed had said or done anything other than winning the Democratic nomination to earn the support and assuage the concerns of groups that voted for Stevens, such as Jewish voters, Black voters or Reagan-era Democrats, Stevens pointed to her own good performance with those demographics, identifying herself as a Zionist Democrat and asserting that her party had room for all those communities.
- "I believe that anti-Zionism is a hate movement that has taken over in America and throughout parts of the West," Stevens said in the interview.
- "There is this bizarre obsession that has reached pitch level with calling out one country, one tiny country in the Middle East."