El-Sayed campaign response to Rogers’s convention address
Abdul for U.S. SenateAbdul El-Sayed campaign, through spokesperson Roxie Richner
Responding to Rogers’s September 10 convention address, El-Sayed campaign spokesperson Roxie Richner characterized claims in the address as “shameful lies.”
“resorting to shameful lies”
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Where this statement fits
Mike Rogers's allegation about Abdul El-Sayed's campaign received funding from a terrorist organization
At a September 10, 2026 Republican National Convention midterm speech, Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers said Abdul El-Sayed was funding his campaign with money from “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.” Rogers did not name a donor, amount, or campaign-finance filing in the speech. The research documents an outside-support chain involving CAIR Action, Unity & Justice Fund, and a Super PAC supporting El-Sayed, while examining whether any record establishes the specific allegation.
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Michigan Advance report by Ben Solis on Rogers's September 10 convention address and the responses to it. The address included the campaign-finance allegation. Neither Roxie Richner's nor Curtis Hertel's quoted words mention the funding sentence, so neither response is recorded as a denial of it.
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Michigan Advance reported that Richner responded to Rogers's convention address, which included Rogers's statement that El-Sayed was funding his campaign with money from terrorist groups.
After the quotation
The article quotes her as saying Rogers and his allies were "resorting to shameful lies" about El-Sayed. Her quoted words do not mention the campaign-finance allegation, so we do not treat this as a direct denial of it.
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Why this label?
The campaign rejected the characterization advanced in Rogers's address. Richner's quoted words did not name or deny the campaign-finance allegation, so this response concerns the address as a whole.
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The Dispute Index. "El-Sayed campaign response to Rogers’s convention address". First published: 2026-09-13. Last updated: 2026-10-13. https://disputeindex.com/events/499-responding-to-rogers-s-september-10-convention-address