El-Sayed Turmoil After Dem Endorses Republican | 11.2.26

A shocking 11th hour development in the Michigan Senate race as Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens has now come out in support of the Republican candidate Mike Rogers.

Joining us now is former Democratic House Judiciary Committee Chief Counsel Julian Epstein, who's urging Michigan voters to do the same.

Julian, thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be with you this morning.

So first, fill us in on what happened with Haley Stevens over the weekend.

A lot of buzz about this, a lot of shock about it, actually.

What's your take on it as a Democrat strategist? And do you think it's going to have an impact?

Well, I think this is an epochal moment for the Democratic Party.

And the fact that you only have Stevens denouncing and repudiating Syed now, I think, tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party.

Uh, but basically what happened was an affiliated, uh, uh, pack, which is, uh, run by Sank Unger, uh, um, Hassan Piker's uncle, um, created an ad that basically is blaming Jews, uh, for, and the Israeli state for high prices of groceries.

And this is sort of one of the oldest, uh, most virulently antisemitic tropes that goes back into Europe for centuries.

Essentially saying that everything that you might be unhappy with is the fault of Jews and this sort of global conspiracy.

And a generation ago, you know, when I was working very actively inside the Democratic Party, this would have been an easy call for the leaders.

This would have been an easy call to say this is racist.

This is bigoted.

This is anti-Semitic.

There is no place for this in our party.

But what you see happening with the Democrats right now is it is a shrinking party.

Its traditional constituencies are abandoning it, most importantly, the working class.

And so what they are doing in an attempt to rebuild the party is they are capitulating to the worst forces on the global scene, which have seeped into the American political scene, this sort of red-green alliance that is virulently anti-Semitic, virulently racist.

They have decided they're going to swallow anti-Semitism in the name of trying to capture votes.

There is a story today, I don't know if you saw this in the New York Post, that reports that Syed's supporters in various mosques in Michigan are calling for, quote, the final solution for Jews.

And so what you're seeing with the Democratic Party is their normalization, including through the leaders, and yes, I'm talking about Barack Obama.

I'm talking about Chuck Schumer, who I worked with for years.