Cole Wozniak

Role
Spokesperson responding on behalf of Abdul El-Sayed's U.S. Senate campaign
Statement date

Cole Wozniak on Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed

has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks.

Source and context

Reporting

Detroit News records Rogers's convention criticism and the El-Sayed campaign's reply (opens in a new tab)Paragraph beginning Campaign spokesman Cole Wozniak said in a Sept. 10 statement, and the following paragraph

About this source

Complete original reporting dated September 10, displaying an update time of 8:15 p.m. Eastern. Only the calendar publication date is asserted; 12:00 UTC is a date-only placeholder, not the original publication time. The reporter explicitly dates Cole Wozniak's campaign statement September 10. His reply is recorded in his campaign-spokesperson capacity, not as a personal quotation by El-Sayed. The report also preserves El-Sayed's earlier rejection of justifying 9/11; that earlier context is not a newly made response.

Before the quotation

The Detroit News reported Rogers's convention criticism and El-Sayed's previous rejection of the idea that the September 11 attacks were justified. It explicitly identified Wozniak's reply as a September 10 statement.

After the quotation

Wozniak accused Rogers of misrepresenting El-Sayed's beliefs. The campaign also raised Rogers's votes concerning benefits for September 11 responders, which are separate from the selected response. The statement's exact time is unknown; 12:00 UTC is a report-date placeholder.

Condemned
How this statement is classified

The very next attributed sentence calls the attack bad-faith lies meant to mislead voters. The complete reply directly condemns campaign conduct, beyond correcting the belief attributed to El-Sayed.

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Corrections to this statement

These notices document reporting corrections, classification changes, and topic-label updates.

Classification correction

Correction to: Statement by Cole Wozniak

Previous classification
Challenges the characterization. The campaign explicitly disputes Rogers's characterization. The quotation is a sentence fragment whose subject, El-Sayed, is supplied by the reporter's surrounding sentence; it is not a verbatim personal statement by El-Sayed.
Corrected classification
Condemns. The very next attributed sentence calls the attack bad-faith lies meant to mislead voters. The complete reply directly condemns campaign conduct, beyond correcting the belief attributed to El-Sayed.

We corrected the editorial classification of Cole Wozniak's response about Rogers’s alleged misrepresentation of El-Sayed’s beliefs. The very next attributed sentence calls the attack bad-faith lies meant to mislead voters. The complete reply directly condemns campaign conduct, beyond correcting the belief attributed to El-Sayed. This corrects our labeling, not a later change in the speaker's position.

This corrects an editorial classification.

Detroit News records Rogers's convention criticism and the El-Sayed campaign's reply (opens in a new tab)Paragraph beginning Campaign spokesman Cole Wozniak said in a Sept. 10 statement, and the following paragraph

Complete original reporting dated September 10, displaying an update time of 8:15 p.m. Eastern. Only the calendar publication date is asserted; 12:00 UTC is a date-only placeholder, not the original publication time. The reporter explicitly dates Cole Wozniak's campaign statement September 10. His reply is recorded in his campaign-spokesperson capacity, not as a personal quotation by El-Sayed. The report also preserves El-Sayed's earlier rejection of justifying 9/11; that earlier context is not a newly made response.

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