Cole Wozniak
Role at the time: Spokesperson responding on behalf of Abdul El-Sayed's U.S. Senate campaign
Responding to
Mike Rogers’s 9/11 accusation against Abdul El-Sayed
"has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks."
Why we used this label
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.
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.