Posted on 09/02/2026 11:18:34 AM PDT by Libloather
More than 400 Democratic Jewish Michiganders are backing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers and warning that they feel "threatened and alienated" by leftist candidate Abdul El-Sayed and his political allies.
Prominent Democratic donor Rob Orley, a senior advisor for O2 Investments, is among the signatories. He previously donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns, according to FEC campaign filings — but now he and other prominent Jewish leaders are ditching El-Sayed for Republican candidate Mike Rogers.
"Many of us have been fiercely supportive of Democratic candidates and principles," a letter signed by Orley and hundreds of others stated.
"If El-Sayed were to win the general election in this important swing state, we fear the far-left and anti-Jewish elements in the Democratic Party would become dominant, including in the imminent 2028 presidential race," the letter continues. "We cannot allow him to become the Democratic standard-bearer or Michigan’s senator."
Fox News Digital reached out to O2 Investments for comment.
The letter includes signatures from some of the most prominent members of Michigan's Jewish community, including Robert Gordon, the former president of Temple Israel, the state's largest Jewish congregation, which was the site of an antisemitic attack in March.
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Good!
I always wondered what it would take. Maybe now we are getting a clue.
Real progress.
“Many of us have been fiercely supportive of Democratic candidates and principles,”
...what a stupid ass and infuriating statement! “Principles”?! These idiots need to list off these so called principles.
“More than 400 Democratic Jewish Michiganders are backing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers”
How about the other 100,000?
Paul Ryan at Faux News deeply saddened.
Another bunch who took a long time to realize that this is a very different ‘Democrat’ party from the one their parents knew...
Well then, many of you have been blind. Because El-Sayed did not pop out of nowhere. He is the culmination of years of the Democratic Party moving toward hardcore anti-Israel and ultimately, anti-Jewish rhetoric and positions. Liberal Jews buried their heads in the sand and held onto the baseless notion that "Republican = Nazi" for way too long. Now the party doesn't want them. Its not just this one candidate.
It just means they have to increase size of the steal.
“Many of us have been fiercely supportive of Democratic candidates and principles.
Democrat bait shop most happy.
until reasoning happened.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of all the people running for office right now El-sayed is the one I most want to lose.
Fox News keeps on pushing a fake ass poll showing Sayed up 6, please, if that Jihadist terrorist wannabe were up 6 points he wouldnt be BEGGING Jews to vote for him
I wish you wouldn't say this so soon.
The Democrats will pull one of their last-minute post-primary judge-assisted candidate switcheroos. Like they did with Torricelli, back in 2002.
One of two things are going to happen.
Our Democracy!!! will take over and replace Abdul with a more electable candidate who didn’t even run or receive a single vote.
OR
100% of the Detroit vote will be cast for Abdul by 200% of the eligible voters in Detroit.
“But your honor, if you force us to stick with our nominee, we might lose!”
“But your honor, if you force us to stick with our nominee, we might lose!”
Pretty. much. Still, I think they try to rehab this guy and go with the 100%/200% Detroit gambit.
63% voted for former Governor Cuomo, who had NO chance to win.
Just 3% of NYC Jewish voters supported the Republican.
Any one who thinks that Jewish American voters will flip to GOP candidates in meaningful numbers in the November election is badly mistaken.
400 vs tens of thousands of muhadis, not much of an impact. No, if the blacks say adios, then he’s in trouble.
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