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Absent from the Trump rally today was US Rep. Tom Barrett, who is locked in a close and expensive race against progressive William Lawrence. No one even mentioned him as part of the Repblican slate being promoted.
Could be a coordinated move to distance Barrett from Trump, or maybe Trump is mad at him for voting in favor of the War Powers Resolution on Iran.
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Mike Rogers and Donald Trump are now on the stage together.
Trump's approval rating in Michigan is at 36 percent.
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I said I would stop, but I must report that Trump just suggested that Abdul El-Sayed would take away Christmas.
Trump is likening Abdul El-Sayed's campaign to the 9/11 attack.
I will stop sending updates from the Trump-Rogers rally now. You get the picture, it's a fest of Islamophobia, racism and falsehoods.
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"I'm here to keep a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a United States senator," Trump says as the crowd roars.
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Trump is likening Abdul El-Sayed's campaign to the 9/11 attack.
I will stop sending updates from the Trump-Rogers rally now. You get the picture, it's a fest of Islamophobia, racism and falsehoods.
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Trump says if Abdul El-Sayed wins, he would want him to go through a metal detector to get inside the Capitol.
Six minutes of nonstop bigotry.
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"I'm polling at 99 percent in Israel," Trump says, adding that he doesn't understand how any Jewish person would vote for "Mohammed," referring to Abdul El-Sayed.
The president doesn't appear to understand that American Jews are Americans, not Israelis.
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Mike Rogers takes the stage for the Trump rally in Port Huron and almost immediately unleashes the Muslim Brotherhood.
He says Abdul El-Sayed has taken money from people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah and Hamas.
A guy in the crowd screams: "Traitor."
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Michigan state House Speaker Matt Hall dabbles in some election denialism at the Trump rally in Port Huron, saying that Republicans need to make sure that the results are "too big to rig."
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Ali Harb retweeted
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Alisha Jackson, who wore a "Black voters for Abdul" shirt says there are tensions between some Arab store owners and the African American community, but people shouldn't generalize.
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Jake Lang with some anti-Muslim hate outside the Obama rally for Democrats in Detroit.
Lorenzo Sewell, who helped the guy in this video organize a hate rally in Dearborn, is an official faith adviser to the Mike Rogers campaign.
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Samuel Machado, a 19-year-old in a Keffiyeh outside the Obama rally in Detroit, addresses the Republican attack that Abdul El-Sayed cares more about Palestine than Michigan.
Machado says not sending money to Israel shows more care for Michigan and America.
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I asked Melanie Rutherford, of Democrats for Rogers, about the issues that drove her to campaign against Abdul El-Sayed, she brought up "the disconnect between the Black and the Muslim community."
I also asked about the $30k she received from a Republican-funded PAC.
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