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Michigan Debate: El-Sayed Challenges Rogers Over Unsubstantiated AllegationsAt Thursday’s debate in Grand Rapids, Rogers repeatedly invoked the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas; El-Sayed advocated federal privacy regulations.
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- Discussing Flock cameras, Rogers defended their counterterrorism use and referred to families with someone potentially on a watch list.
- El-Sayed warned that privacy could be violated without people knowing and called for federal regulations.
- El-Sayed supported temporarily suspending the federal gas tax and attributed high fuel prices to the war in Iran.
- Rogers alleged El-Sayed received money from groups and people he linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda.
Well, if you have somebody in your family that might be on the watch list.— Mike Rogers, during the Michigan Senate debate, implying that a family member could be on a watch list.
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