Gen. Thoughts 🇺🇦🇵🇸

In endorsing Mike Rogers, a candidate who would rubber-stamp Trump’s MAGA agenda, Haley Stevens has betrayed everything she purported to stand for throughout her campaign and her time in Congress. In claiming to speak for Jewish voters while doing so, she’s weaponizing real fears about rising antisemitism to further her own grievances. Michiganders deserve better than petty political theater from a sore loser. We must not let this distract us from the task at hand – securing pro-democracy majorities in Congress, fighting authoritarianism and building a future that truly reflects our Jewish and democratic values while keeping all vulnerable communities safe – a future that Mike Rogers is actively fighting against. J Street has not endorsed Abdul El-Sayed. We have real policy disagreements. But those policy disagreements pale in comparison with the threat posed by Mike Rogers. He questioned the results of the 2024 election and supported Trump’s reckless war of choice with Iran. Members of Students for Mike Rogers were in a Young Republicans group chat filled with praise for Hitler, gas chamber jokes and racial slurs. His Super PAC received $5 million from Christian Nationalist billionaire Tim Dunn who believes that “only Christians should hold leadership positions,” and whose goal is to “replace public education with private Christian schooling.” This is not the kind of leadership we need in the U.S. Senate.