El-Sayed criticizes Rogers over asserted 9/11 responder health-care votes
Abdul El-SayedDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, replying from his campaign-linked X account
Replying to a Rogers post that urged him to disavow Hasan Piker, El-Sayed criticized Rogers’s record on 9/11 responder health care and asserted that Rogers had opposed it nine times. The entry records El-Sayed’s criticism and asserted count, rather than treating the count as an independent finding.
“You’re right. Sorry. Turns out you didn’t vote to deny 9/11 first responders healthcare twice. You did it NINE times.”
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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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Direct campaign-account reply in the ongoing El-Sayed–Rogers dispute.
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Metro Times’s characterization of Rogers’s 2003–2010 record and its account of the El-Sayed–Rogers exchange. The reported nine-action total remains attributed to the outlet in this record
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The post quote-replied to Rogers’s September 10 X statement alleging that El-Sayed campaigned with a person who said America deserved 9/11 and demanding that he disavow Hasan Piker.
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Metro Times reported nine votes or actions from 2003 through 2010 involving 9/11 responder health-care funding.
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El-Sayed directly criticizes Rogers’s conduct and voting record in a reply within the ongoing campaign dispute.
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The Dispute Index. "El-Sayed criticizes Rogers over asserted 9/11 responder health-care votes". First published: 2026-09-13. Last updated: 2026-09-13. https://disputeindex.com/events/512-replying-to-a-rogers-post-that-urged-him