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El-Sayed’s former rival demands apology before joint appearance

The Seattle Times The Seattle Times·Tim Balk·about 11 hours ago
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It looked Thursday night like feuding Democrats in Michigan had made peace on the eve of a pivotal Senate election. But by Friday morning, tensions came roaring back.

Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan had said that she would campaign this weekend with Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee and her former primary rival, apparently moving past a series of recent public criticisms she made of him.

Less than 24 hours later, she had another message. In a statement promoting her plan to join El-Sayed on the campaign trail, she said that she expected El-Sayed to apologize for comments he had made about Israel and that she anticipated that he would disavow what she described as an antisemitic ad from an outside group. She also called on him to take down an ad from his campaign featuring Tucker Carlson.

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“Abdul promises to get money out of politics,” Stevens said in the statement.…

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