Stevens Posts Bizarre, Racist Rant Against El-Sayed as He Surges Ahead in Polls |
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On Thursday, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) posted a bizarre and racist rant against opponent Abdul El-Sayed over his criticisms of AIPAC — even as Stevens’s campaign has already faced pushback for embracing bigoted attacks.
In a post on X addressed directly to El-Sayed late Thursday evening, Stevens said that “[e]veryone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems on Jewish Americans.” She said, without basis, that El-Sayed is a “celebrity” and a “part of the complainer class” who is in the race to secure the “next book or podcast deal.”
“Bro, I just want to work for Michigan,” Stevens concluded in her post.
The post was a quote tweet of an interview clip in which El-Sayed taunted AIPAC, which has spent roughly $30 million on Stevens’s campaign — a record amount of spending on one race for the pro-Israel group — via its super PAC, United Democracy Project (UDP). In all, UDP and other outside groups have spent $60 million backing Stevens, while El-Sayed has received $4.6 million from outside groups.
“When AIPAC watches this — come for me, see what happens,” El-Sayed said. “If you think you can beat money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for All, come. But I’ll tell you what people don’t want, they don’t want money in a foreign government. They want money here.”
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