Republican Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers pressed his challenger, Muslim leftist Abdulrahman El-Sayed, about his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and whether he is “for America” or “these terrorist groups overseas.”
Rogers raised national security concerns about El-Sayed during the final Michigan U.S. Senate debate on Wednesday night ahead of election day in November. The debate was held at WXYZ-TV’s studio in Detroit.
The candidates were asked about whether Iran poses a threat to the United States and what they believe should be America’s strategy moving forward. El-Sayed contended that while Iran is a threat, it should be handled through diplomacy rather than war.
“My opponent can’t even condemn the IRGC, which is the terrorist enforcement arm of Iran, and doesn’t believe Iran is any more dangerous than Israel. This is an absolute non-starter if you’re going to send somebody back to the United States Senate,” Rogers hit back. “They had the [nuclear] capability. I left Congress a bit in 2014. At that time, [Iran] had all three components of a nuclear program. The big debate was, how do you put those things together, and how long would it take them to do that? Obviously, something triggered that where [we] needed to stop them from developing and putting those three pieces together to get a nuclear weapon. I absolutely believe you want to pay $8 a gallon of gas, let Iran get a nuclear weapon — you lose control of that whole region.”
Source:
Diem ‘Richard’ Nguyen
Liên Minh Bảo Hiến Mỹ Gốc Việt
Vietnamese American Conservative Alliance (VACA)
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