Michigan U.S. Senate Final Debate: Mike Rogers vs Abdul El-Sayed
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Iran created Hamas.
Medicare for all would cause five million Michiganders to lose their health care.
Mike Rogers invested $2.6 million directly in a corporation building a data center in Saline Township.
Abdul El-Sayed has campaign donors from Hamas who support Hezbollah.
Michigan has the highest auto insurance rates in the nation.
Mike Rogers made fourteen million dollars advising corporations he had regulated while in Congress.
Abdul El-Sayed lied about being a physician.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to defund the police.
Mike Rogers took a million dollars from big insurance.
Mike Rogers put in a hundred and fifty million dollars to take care of 9/11 first responders.
Mike Rogers said he wanted to raise the Social Security retirement age to sixty-seven.
Children who cannot read by fourth grade have a 70 percent chance of being on welfare or going to prison.
Two thirds of Michigan fourth graders cannot read at fourth-grade level.
Mike Rogers is moving to Florida in November.
The SAVE Act would require women who change their names to find their birth certificates to vote.
Mike Rogers was caught on a hot mic talking about wanting retired police officers to intimidate voters in Detroit.
Mike Rogers voted nineteen times to keep prescription drug prices high.
Abdul El-Sayed lied about being an Egyptian dual citizen.
GM posted the single biggest stock buyback in automotive history.
Abdul El-Sayed is calling for the largest tax increase in the nation's history.
Mike Rogers voted to defund border security while in Congress.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to decriminalize people who cross the border.
Mike Rogers took a million dollars from big pharma to run his previous campaigns.
Medicare for all would cost about twenty thousand dollars per family in new taxes.
In 1999, Mike Rogers architected legislation that ushered in what ultimately became emergency management, under which Detroit Public Schools later operated.
The current first-time homebuyer in Michigan is 40 years old.
Under Medicare for All, people would lose their private health insurance.
Michigan has the highest utility rates in the Midwest.
Current law includes tax cuts on Social Security that could be made permanent.
Iran had all three components of a nuclear program when Mike Rogers left Congress in 2014.
Murders nationally fell twenty percent in the two years preceding the debate.
Mike Rogers told a 9/11 first responder who had lost a limb that he did not want to expand insurance for him because it was a 'New York problem.'
Congressional committees disclosed five hundred billion dollars in fraud.
Beyond Basics can help children reclaim their reading in four to sixteen weeks, depending on their reading level.
Medicare for all would cost about seven trillion dollars a year in new expenses.
Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veteran Services provided small business health insurance for over a thousand Wayne County businesses under Abdul El-Sayed's leadership.
DTE spent sixty four thousand dollars helping to support Mike Rogers.
Iran funded the October seventh Hamas operation across the border.
Mike Rogers voted four times against allowing people to buy prescription drugs in Canada.
Mike Rogers is on record saying he wanted to privatize Social Security.
Mike Rogers voted against funding that would have invested millions in Michigan State Police.
Sixty-seven percent of Detroit voters rejected Abdul El-Sayed in his primary.
Chevy plans to bring Silverado production to the Orion plant by 2027.
Donald Trump ended the JCPOA during his first term.
Donald Trump has invited Chinese carmakers to build cars in the United States.
A former chairman of the Democratic Party said he could not vote for Abdul El-Sayed because El-Sayed is too extreme.
Abdul El-Sayed led Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veteran Services.
The UAW endorsed Abdul El-Sayed.
Donald Trump made war with Iran during his second term.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to abolish ICE.
Mike Rogers voted against the Affordable Care Act.
Mike Rogers voted against expanding health insurance for kids.
Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032.
Michigan ranks 44th in the nation in fourth-grade reading.
Twenty-five percent of Michigan fourth graders scored at or above proficient in reading on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Mike Rogers questioned the outcome of his last election.
A finance chairman for Senator Elissa Slotkin said he could not vote for Abdul El-Sayed.
Michigan polls open at 7 a.m. on election day.
Michigan polls close at 8 p.m. on election day.
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Michigan's education system ranks forty fifth in the country.
Abdul El-Sayed is aligned with the Democrat Socialists of America.
The Chevy Silverado is built in Mexico.
Chevy is bringing manufacturing back from China.
Detroit Diesel is adding a third shift.
NAFTA was passed about ten years before Mike Rogers entered Congress.
Mike Rogers said that, in the long term, NAFTA would be good for the American worker.
Mike Rogers left Congress in 2014.
Iran financed Hamas.
Iran trained Hamas.
Abdul El-Sayed has called for open borders.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to give driver's licenses to immigrants arriving in the United States.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to give Medicare to immigrants arriving in the United States.
The Muslim Brotherhood is banned in five Muslim countries.
The Muslim Brotherhood is banned in another six countries.
Abdul El-Sayed is invested in AI through his mutual funds.
GM had to take a bailout in 2008.