A recent campaign video released by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan left one of his opponent\u2019s staffers feeling triggered.
\nRogers on Sunday released a video of himself riding shotgun in a red antique Ford pickup truck, which had two American flags affixed to the tailgate. The video shows Rogers smiling and waving from the passenger\u2019s seat as the truck breezes down the road. Toby Keith\u2019s \u201cAmerican Ride\u201d accompanies the video.
\n\u201cGotta love this American Ride! There\u2019s no better way to do the Woodward Dream Cruise!\u201d said a post from Rogers accompanying the video online.<\/p>\n
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\nBut one staffer for Abdul El-Sayed, the far-left socialist-adjacent Democrat running against Rogers, did not find the bit of Americana to his liking.
\n\u201cMike Rogers\u2019 campaign has the aesthetics of a 1960s white flight suburb and a KKK cross burning,\u201d Mason Pressler, who serves as a El-Sayed\u2019s political manager in the northern part of Michigan, said on X.
\nRogers\u2019 campaign seized on the post, accusing Pressler of thinking that \u201cdriving a Michigan-made Ford truck is akin to the KKK.\u201d
\nThe campaign also added \u201cOld Ford trucks\u201d to its running list of things it says El-Sayed hates.<\/p>\n
El-Sayed\u2019s communications director, Roxie Richner, explained to Fox News Digital that Pressler\u2019s views are not representative of the campaign as a whole because Pressler\u2019s X bio explicitly states that his posts are his own opinions.
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\nShe did not return a follow-up request for further comment on the post from El-Sayed\u2019s campaign aide.
\nThe Democratic candidate has been dogged for his particular brand of left-wing politics, even by some members of his own political party who believe he is too far left.<\/p>\n
El-Sayed during his campaign has campaigned and partied with socialist streamer Hasan Piker, who is known for saying \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11,\u201d praising Mao Zedong and Communist China, arguing that capitalists should be murdered in the streets and spewing a litany of antisemitic comments.
\nThe far-left candidate also argued against the Second Amendment in videos discovered among the 100 he hid from public view from his YouTube channel. In an unearthed essay, he drew a parallel between President Donald Trump and Osama Bin Laden.
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\nFox News Digital previously reported that El-Sayed has received more than $100,000 in campaign cash from 41 people who work for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and formally designated or labeled as such in Florida and Texas.<\/p>\n
El-Sayed\u2019s sister, Eman Abdelhadi, has also been revealed as a socialist University of Chicago professor who was arrested last year for allegedly spitting on a police officer during an anti-ICE protest outside the Broadview, Illinois immigrant detention facility.
\nFox News Digital\u2019s Andrew Mark Miller and Kiera McDonald contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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