El-Sayed criticizes Rogers’s use of 9/11 in campaign rhetoric
U.S. Senate candidate, through campaign statement
“This is somebody who—when he thinks it’s politically useful for him—wants to invoke the memory of 9/11.”
Source and context
Official statement
About this source
Campaign release responding to Mike Rogers’s 9/11-focused rhetoric. It attributes the quoted criticism to Abdul El-Sayed and links its health-care-voting argument to contemporaneous reporting. It is a campaign statement, not independent verification of its characterizations.
Reporting
About this source
The report links congressional vote records for Rogers to arguments over 9/11 first-responder benefits and includes the Rogers campaign’s response. It reports allegations by John Feal separately and should not be used to treat those allegations as established fact.
Before the quotation
Rogers had repeatedly invoked El-Sayed’s association with Hasan Piker and Piker’s 2019 9/11 remarks in the Michigan Senate campaign.
After the quotation
The campaign release followed reporting on Rogers’s votes concerning first-responder and survivor benefits. The release’s criticism does not itself establish the broader allegations it discusses.
How this statement is classified
El-Sayed’s statement directly criticizes Rogers’s conduct and political use of the 9/11 attacks. The record attributes the health-care characterization to El-Sayed’s campaign and keeps the vote reporting separate.
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- Mike Rogers
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