Michigan Democrats are fighting in public three days before Election Day, and President Trump summed it up in one line. Asked at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night about “the fissure in the Democratic Party between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens,” the President said: “Well, they’re really fighting there. Nobody wants Abdul.”
The split blew open this week. El-Sayed’s campaign asked Rep. Haley Stevens, the Democrat he beat in the August primary, to stay away from its final events after she demanded he condemn an ad from an outside group that blamed Israel for grocery prices. “We are not going to say that the cost of groceries is because of Jews and the Jewish state,” Stevens said. Even Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell called the fight “a total distraction.”
President Trump gave Stevens some credit for trying. “Stevens is in there fighting… you got to give her credit. She tried to do it, but she can’t. You can’t live with him. He’s the jihadist,” he said. “She was supposed to get wiped out, and she almost won.”
Then he laid out the stakes. “Look, a person that hates black people, hates Jewish people, and I think probably hates all people,” Trump said. “If he won, that would be a devastating blow for our country. Our country’s never done better. He’s a jihadist, and he’s a guy that, frankly, should not be in the Senate.”
When even his own party’s primary runner-up gets disinvited for refusing to blame groceries on Israel, Michigan voters can see who El-Sayed is. Republican Mike Rogers is on the ballot Tuesday, and the President is making sure every Michigander knows what is at stake.
