# Haley Stevens Chooses Rogers Over Hate

> Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens joins Mike Rogers in a campaign of anti-Muslim rhetoric.
- Title: Haley Stevens Chooses Rogers Over Hate · Vanity Fair
- Summary: Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens joins Mike Rogers in a campaign of anti-Muslim rhetoric. Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, who claims Abdul El-Sayed…
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- Source: Vanity Fair — https://vanityfair.com/story/ta-nehisi-coates-haley-stevens-el-sayed
- Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Published: 2026-11-02T22:38:23.218+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: haley stevens, mike rogers, abdul el-sayed, democratic senate primary, michael rogers
## Haley Stevens Endorses Mike Rogers
Michigan congresswoman Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, claiming she chose country over hate.

> I’m choosing country over hate. This is not anti-Muslim at all.
## Rogers Cites MLK on Hate
Mike Rogers invoked Martin Luther King Jr. to argue solving hate requires love, not darkness.

> You cannot solve darkness with darkness; you have to solve it with light. You can’t solve hate with hate; you have to solve it with love.
## Perfecting Church as Campaign Site
The pair chose Perfecting Church, a Black church in Detroit, to frame their campaign in social justice terms.
## Rogers Targets El-Sayed as Muslim
Rogers claimed Abdul El-Sayed is a tool of shadowy forces originating in the East, including the Muslim Brotherhood.

> The Muslim Brotherhood celebrated exactly one victory in the United States in the primary this year. Abdul El-Sayed’s.
## Trump Calls El-Sayed Mohamed
President Donald Trump referred to El-Sayed as 'Mohamed' or 'Abduladadalalalala' at rallies.

> Somebody said his name isn’t Mohamed. I’m the president, I can call him whatever the hell I want. To me, he’s Mohamed.
## Newsmax Labels El-Sayed
Newsmax described El-Sayed as an 'anti-Israel Muslim' and a Midwest variant of Zohran Mamdani.

> THE LEFT IS FORGETTING THE HEINOUS ATTACKS OF 9/11
## Kennedy Jr. Attacks Arabs
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Arabs don’t produce science or Nobel Prize winners.

> There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Field[s] prize, they don’t win the Wolf Prize, they don’t produce the literature they used to produce.
## Obama Racial Attacks
Barack Obama faced racist attacks, including being called 'Barack the Magic Negro' and 'food stamp president'.

> Point box toward Mecca for tastier waffles.
## El-Sayed’s Campaign Target
The campaign of hate aims to render Muslims and Arabs more killable through historical coups and racism.

> In 1953 the CIA backed a coup that overthrew a democracy in Iran. In 1965 it supported a coup in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, that killed between 500,000 and a million people.
## Key takeaway

Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, who claims Abdul El-Sayed is a tool of Muslim Brotherhood, despite El-Sayed winning the Democratic Senate primary.