Haley Stevens’ fiancé just told The Detroit News that he is voting for Mike Rogers because he believes that Abdul El-Sayed is an antisemite. This comes after Stevens praised Rogers on CNN for “rigorously” seeking the support of Black voters in Detroit.
As reported by The Detroit News:
Days before the Nov. 3 election, the Democratic fiancé of former Senate hopeful Haley Stevens declared he intends to vote for Republican Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate, saying he’s become convinced over the last three months that Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is an antisemite.
Jason Turkish, a Jewish Democrat and disabilities and civil rights attorney from Huntington Woods, is engaged to be married to U.S. Rep. Stevens of Birmingham, whom El-Sayed narrowly defeated in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary.
“I’ve just seen an escalation in his rhetoric since the primary, and it makes folks unsafe. Every time he talks about genocide (in Gaza), Jews get death threats,” Turkish told The Detroit News about El-Sayed, a long-time critic of the Israeli government.
“We have never seen a candidate for U.S. Senate act so recklessly toward the safety of Jews in the community as we have seen from Abdul.”
Turkish, a Democratic donor from Huntington Woods who has also given to GOP candidates, described his decision to back Rogers as “putting country before party.”
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