Pro-Rogers group's 9/11 ad says El-Sayed gives comfort to the hatred behind the attacks
Great Lakes Conservatives FundPolitical group backing Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate, in a paid TV ad
A one-minute TV ad from Great Lakes Conservatives Fund, a group backing Rogers, said the hatred behind 9/11 did not disappear, played a clip of Hasan Piker saying America deserved 9/11, and said El-Sayed gives comfort to that hatred, campaigns with it, accepts money from it and justifies it.
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Abdul El-Sayed believes the United States deserved the September 11 attacks.
“Abdul El-Sayed gives comfort to that hatred. He campaigns with it. He accepts money from it. And he justifies it.”
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Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
After Michigan’s August 2026 Senate primary, Mike Rogers asserted that Abdul El-Sayed believed America deserved the September 11 attacks. His campaign defended that accusation by citing El-Sayed’s association with Hasan Piker and reluctance to disavow him. El-Sayed had explicitly rejected justifying 9/11 and argued that appearing with a person did not imply agreement. He described Rogers’s attacks as an effort to divide voters through Islamophobia. Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer later debated the strategy and construction of a related Republican ad without endorsing its factual claims.
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The post says the minute-long ad was airing on TV in Detroit for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The ad uses news audio from the attacks, a clip of Hasan Piker, and footage of El-Sayed campaigning with Piker. On screen, the ad pairs 'he justifies it' with El-Sayed's March 13 video.
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The ad opens with news audio from the morning of September 11, 2001, and says America was attacked for who it is and united afterward. The narrator then says the hatred behind 9/11 did not disappear, and the ad plays a clip of Hasan Piker saying America deserved 9/11 and that he hates America.
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On screen, the ad pairs 'he justifies it' with El-Sayed's March 13 video. The ad closes by saying America is being tested again 25 years later and asks voters to remember what is at stake.
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The reference point is Rogers's accusation that El-Sayed believes America deserved the 9/11 attacks. The ad pairs Piker's 9/11 remark with a claim that El-Sayed gives comfort to and justifies the hatred behind the attacks, which extends the accusation. We used Defended or excused. Mixed or conditional loses because the ad has no qualification. The quote is from the ad's audio, posted by the group.
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The Dispute Index. "Pro-Rogers group's 9/11 ad says El-Sayed gives comfort to the hatred behind the attacks". First published: 2026-10-06. Last updated: 2026-10-06. https://disputeindex.com/events/4782-a-one-minute-tv-ad-from-great-lakes