President Donald Trump said on Sunday he thinks Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed is “out of it” and he and other socialist candidates will harm more centrist members of the Democratic Party in November’s midterm elections.
“I look at the people running like in Michigan, I watched his interview the other day with Jesse [Watters],” Trump said, referring to a Tuesday interview between el Sayed and Jesse Watters on Jesse Watters Primetime. “And I said, wow, this man is out of it. This is very dangerous for our country.” Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Fox News’s Trey Gowdy that aired Sunday night.
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“I’m not saying [he’s] a good guy, bad guy, I’m just saying this is big, big trouble for our country,” Trump said. “Likewise, many others. And what’s happened is you’re seeing Democrats, of which there are fewer and fewer, are forced to vote in a way that they would not vote. And they don’t even believe in their vote, but if they don’t vote that way, they lose power. With all that being said, I think we’re going to do well.”
The race between el Sayed and his Republican opponent Mike Rogers otherwise developed this weekend after el Sayed apologized to a group of Jewish Democrats on Saturday for comments he made in response to an antisemitic attack at a synagogue in March. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) then offered his support for el Sayed on Sunday, saying, “all of us deserve second chances.”
Rogers meanwhile released a new advertisement on Saturday knocking the socialist Democrat for past comments he made about football being racist and stemming from “toxic masculinity.” Much of Roger’s campaign has centered on statements el Sayed has made in the past, as well as his often-criticized decision to campaign alongside internet personality Hasan Piker, who has said America deserved the Sep. 11 attacks.
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“‘Bad for our country’ is expanding a trade war with Canada that’s costing us all thousands of dollars,” el Sayed responded on X.
“I think we’re going to do very well because we have communists, we have a party that’s been infiltrated by bad thought, by bad policy,” Trump also said, tying el Sayed’s beliefs to communism. “I used to talk about socialism but this isn’t socialism, this is largely communism.”
