Haley Stevens: 'My vote for Senate is going to be with Mike Rogers'
Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers for Senate
Haley Stevens appeared with Mike Rogers to give her endorsement for him against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Senate.
DETROIT - Mike Rogers was joined by Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens as a special guest at Perfecting Church this morning, just two days before the Midterm election.
Stevens joined Rogers at the Detroit congregation just one day after being told to refrain from joining fellow Democrat, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, on the campaign trail after a tense finish to the highly-contested senate race between Rogers and El-Sayed.
Stevens appeared with Rogers to speak about her decision today.
"Abdul made it clear I was not welcome," Stevens said. "Ninety percent of my votes are going to Democrats. I am going to cast my vote for Senate for Mike Rogers. We can't stand for hate. We can't stand with Hassan Piker."
Rogers said he is glad he isn't running against Stevens and spoke about her support.
"I am honored to have Haley Stevens' support today. I am happy to have earned that vote," he said. "We talked about America, what was better for our country and what was better for our state.
"At the end of the call, she reminded me that she is still a Democrat."
Recently Steven’s fiancée, Jason Turkish, announced he is going to vote for Rogers in Tuesday’s match-up.
Mike Rogers and former Democratic Senate candidate Haley Stevens
The backstory:
On Friday and Saturday, Stevens and El-Sayed traded barbs online over differing opinions on Israel.
Stevens called on El-Sayed to condemn a controversial a Rebellion PAC advertisement produced by liberal pundit Cenk Uygur, the uncle of his campaign surrogate and controversial streamer Hasan Piker.
In the commercial, it spoke about American money going to fund "the killing of Palestinians" thus adding to the affordability crisis.
El-Sayed said his campaign was not affiliated with it, while Stevens fired back that "A disclaimer is not a condemnation, and everyone in my community knows the difference."
Rogers then jumped into the fray recently posing online in support of Stevens.
"Representative Haley Stevens is a courageous leader who deserves the respect of every Michigan voter," Rogers said. "She has conducted herself with nothing but class since the Democratic primary, a primary where a majority of voters did not vote for her party’s nominee.
"She was absolutely right to call on Abdul El-Sayed to denounce the Rebellion PAC ad and she was right to call on him to apologize for espousing the same hateful ideology behind it."
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