‘Just Gross’: CNN’s Dana Bash Taken Aback By Poll On How Many People Would Not Vote For a Muslim

Mediaite via Yahoo ^ | 09/17/2026 | Alex Griffing

[DFG]

CNN anchor Dana Bash lamented on Thursday the findings in a new poll out of Michigan that 45% of the electorate would not vote for a Muslim candidate, calling it "just gross."

During a panel discussion on the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers, Bash noted, "We have new data about that that I do want to get to. First, let's just look at the overall polling that Erin, you were talking about. There's a brand new poll out from The Washington Post this morning that shows El-Sayed at 48, Rogers at 45. With the margin of error, it's a statistical dead heat."

"And then the question, which kind of goes to the strategy here, perhaps, by some voters who are thinking about the balance of power in Washington: 'What is your preference for party control in the US Senate?' Democratic, 53. Republican, 45," Bash said, adding:

Now let's get to what you were just talking about, Nia. "Would not consider voting for a presidential candidate who is…" Atheist, 46%. Muslim, 45%. Jewish, 20%. Christian, 7%. These are Michigan voters, the people who are going to go to the polls to decide between Rogers and El-Sayed. 45%?

"Yeah, I mean, listen — Barack Obama had to deal with this, right? I mean, he had to deal with the reality that some people in 2008 were not comfortable voting for a Black man for president, a Black man that people thought was Muslim, and all that kind of stuff," replied Bloomberg columnist Nia Malika-Henderson, who added:

So, you know, if you listen to Abdul El-Sayed, he says, "Oh, there are many Abduls in Michigan, and take my name out your mouth if you can't say it correctly."

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: danabash; elsayed; michigan; mikerogers

[arthurus]

Dana is shocked that people are reluctant to vote for someone whose belief system makes it imperative for him to kill them?

[SMARTY]

Like letting the fox in the hen house

[Ann Archy]

And SOUR PUSS BASH is JEWISH!!! DUMB AS THEY COME!

[DIRTYSECRET]

Tell that to the voters in NY.

[rlmorel]

Islam is incompatible with the US Constitution. I am not sure why the execrable Dana Bash finds it “gross” that Americans will not vote for someone whose beliefs are incompatible with America.

What a dimwit.

[high info voter]

WELL DUH!!! Do you understand we're in spiritual warfare???

HISTORY - 1400 years / over 300 MILLION innocent people murdered by Muslims!

“Muslims” A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.
And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government.

Can American voters be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves, our kids and grand-kids AND our future???

BTW - That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was NOT for our good!

[jimfree]

Very sad indeed. They. Brought. It. On. Themselves.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Islam is incompatible with humanity and should be outlawed world wide the same way as Nazis are most places.

[HYPOCRACY]

It is gross. It should be 99%.

[Pontiac]

"Oh, there are many Abduls in Michigan,

Which is a sad fact of poor political leadership in this country for the last 60 years.

With proper leadership we would have less than 1% Muslim population in this country.

Bring in the Muslims that help us in foreign wars and their immediate family and no others.

Thightly monitor those here on visitor visas to ensure that they leave when the visa expires.

[rktman]

I’m taken aback that there are apparently 55% that might.

[escapefromboston]

We should not have Muslims in America in the first place

[aklurker]

Some Americans are not useful idiots, and then there are those that work for CNN...

[packrat35]

The muslim will win. Its Michigan. Bet on it unfortunately.

[Eli Kopter]

I always thought Dana Bash was just gross.

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if she would have sympathized with Joe Kennedy’s views on Hitler (why FDR recalled him as US ambassador to the U.K.).

[Sirius Lee]

I would vote for an actual striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), before I would vote for muzz slime.

[Kudsman]

Dana Bash in the running for Tool of the Year lucite block. TOTY

[jmaroneps37]

Now.lets tie them all together Democrats communists and Muslims as what they.are The New Axis of Evil that Hayes God America us and REALITY. We have the money and now the research thanks to cnn.