The Ben Shapiro Show - November 02, 2026


Mike Rogers Responds to the Haley Stevens Endorsement on the Show

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00:00:00.000 Well, joining me on the line is Representative Mike Rogers.
00:00:02.000 He's the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan facing down Abdurrahman El Sayed.
00:00:07.000 Congressman Rogers, thanks so much for taking time.
00:00:09.000 Really appreciate it.
00:00:10.000 Hey, Ben, it's great to be here.
00:00:12.000 Thanks for having me.
00:00:14.000 So, obviously, Representative Haley Stevens' endorsement of you is the big story in politics all over the country.
00:00:20.000 To me, it's not just her endorsement of you that's shocking.
00:00:22.000 Obviously, I think she's doing the right thing.
00:00:24.000 I think it's a courageous thing.
00:00:25.000 The media's response, the left wing response to her endorsement, is the part that's truly shocking.
00:00:29.000 The idea that she's somehow a traitor for saying that she does not want to vote for the man.
00:00:34.000 Who refuses over and over to reject his pro jihadi leanings, to reject his extremism?
00:00:41.000 She says, I don't want to be a part of that. 0.93
00:00:42.000 The entire Democratic Party comes down on her head and continues to back El Sayed.
00:00:46.000 What does that say about the Democratic Party and your opponent?
00:00:50.000 Well, first of all, let me just say about Haley that this was a courageous act.
00:00:54.000 There was no backroom dealings, there was none of that.
00:00:58.000 The very fact that Abdul El Sayed basically, when she said, Hey, I really want to come to this church service, but you're going to have to condemn.
00:01:07.000 This is the most racist ad I think I've seen in politics in my lifetime that blamed Jews for the cost of bananas.
00:01:14.000 I mean, she had a very simple thing just disavow it.
00:01:18.000 Let's get this put behind us.
00:01:19.000 I'll show up.
00:01:20.000 We'll go forward as Democrats and try to win the seat.
00:01:24.000 He basically tossed her out and said, You're no longer welcome. 1.00
00:01:27.000 Get out.
00:01:28.000 That's what really sent her off.
00:01:30.000 And she thought, If I'm going to change the direction of the Democrat Party, I think I have to do it now.
00:01:35.000 If we're going to be a pro American party, like the Republicans are a pro American party, We have to fight this fight right now.
00:01:42.000 She said she got up and said, I'm going to vote for every other Democrat.
00:01:44.000 The only one I can't do is Abdul El Sayed because he's too extreme.
00:01:48.000 And what you just saw was the hate that came out of this.
00:01:52.000 Think of this.
00:01:53.000 She got booed at the convention, couldn't give her speech not that long ago, booed her off the stage because of her support for Israel and Michigan Jews.
00:02:03.000 It was all about pushing back on anti Semitism.
00:02:03.000 That's what that was.
00:02:06.000 And the party is now chastising her.
00:02:09.000 The party is veering off into this dark and dangerous place.
00:02:13.000 Or they're going to provide acceptance to this. 0.53
00:02:17.000 It's not even, this is just Jew hating, is what it is.
00:02:21.000 Matter of fact, yesterday, an Abdul supporter attacked a Jewish woman on the University of Michigan campus.
00:02:28.000 One of his staffers was re indicted here this last week for acts of terrorism.
00:02:34.000 This happened at the University of Michigan campus.
00:02:37.000 I mean, there's this pattern. 0.68
00:02:38.000 He can't condemn the Hezbollah inspired attack that nearly killed 130 children right here in the state of Michigan. 0.96
00:02:46.000 I mean, that's who the new modern Democrat Party is. 0.72
00:02:48.000 And she had the courage to stand up and say, just this one line, I can't get there.
00:02:54.000 That's a bridge too far.
00:02:56.000 And what happens?
00:02:57.000 They're having a meltdown.
00:02:58.000 They're attacking her personally. 0.99
00:03:00.000 They ought to look at their candidate.
00:03:01.000 They ought to take a minute and step back and go, maybe that guy is too extreme.
00:03:05.000 If Cory Booker from New Jersey, the senator, Democrat, says that he's a fringe candidate, if Van Jones said his policies are insane, if the former candidate, Chairman of the Democrat Party came out and said, I can't vote for this guy.
00:03:20.000 Maybe the Democrat Party ought to have a little introspection here.
00:03:20.000 He's too extreme.
00:03:25.000 So, Congressman Rogers, obviously, right now, if you look at the poll average, you are behind Abdul Rahman El Sayed.
00:03:32.000 Latest New York Times poll, which is a very large margin of error, and Republicans aren't really picking up the phone, but that poll has Abdul El Sayed ahead of you.
00:03:38.000 What do you make of the state of the race right now?
00:03:40.000 How close is the race actually?
00:03:41.000 Because there's some conflicting polling data here, including an Insider Advantage poll last week that showed Abdul Sayed winning only 47% of the black vote in the state of Michigan.
00:03:49.000 You can't imagine him winning that percentage. 0.57
00:03:51.000 And somehow pulling out this race.
00:03:52.000 So, where do things currently stand? 0.98
00:03:54.000 Yeah.
00:03:55.000 A, we've decided we're not believing any poll unless it says we're ahead. 0.57
00:03:59.000 That New York Times poll said that 96% of the black population in Detroit was going to vote for Abdul El Sayed.
00:04:07.000 96.
00:04:08.000 That would be a number that has never been accomplished before, number one.
00:04:13.000 And number two, we're doing better than we have ever done with African Americans in the city of Detroit, Pontiac, and Flint. 0.98
00:04:22.000 We've never done as well as we have down there. 0.81
00:04:24.000 So he's not even going to get the standard, which is about 85%.
00:04:29.000 Of the vote, we think he's going to get less than that.
00:04:31.000 And remember, every time we nick into that number, it makes it, he's got to go try to find those votes somewhere else.
00:04:37.000 And he has been so dismissive to the black community in Detroit.
00:04:41.000 I mean, we have had groups of small groups of pastors and business leaders and community and neighborhood leaders come out and say, he's walked in and basically said, I don't need your votes.
00:04:51.000 You need to get on board or I'll go find them somewhere else.
00:04:54.000 Well, a guy's been around politics a little bit in my life.
00:04:58.000 That's a terrible way for addition.
00:05:00.000 It is a great way for subtraction.
00:05:02.000 And that has given us opportunities in the city.
00:05:05.000 You know, anything over 15% in the city of Detroit is really good for us.
00:05:11.000 And so we think we're going to hit that number. 0.93
00:05:13.000 Then you look at Jewish Democrats. 0.56
00:05:15.000 I mean, his can't condemning this racist ad because it was done by Hassan Piker's uncle just tells you everything you need to know.
00:05:26.000 Hassan Piker actually went after in pretty vile terms.
00:05:31.000 A Jewish Democrat who had a Jewish Democrat signed in the yard, an Abdul volunteer went up to the door, and that person said, No, I'm voting for Mike Rogers, not talking me out of it. 0.98
00:05:42.000 He had just viciously attacked this person, said, You need to go and leave the country, and you're a horrible person.
00:05:47.000 I mean, this is who they are. 0.71
00:05:49.000 They are telling us who they are.
00:05:52.000 I'm just hoping Michigan is listening.
00:05:55.000 Even his former staffer said that most of his foreign policy is revenge based.
00:06:02.000 It's not based on good common sense and what's good for America.
00:06:05.000 He also said the guy's a manufactured candidate.
00:06:09.000 There's not much deep policy to him.
00:06:11.000 I mean, these are people who know him.
00:06:13.000 You know, how many people need to come out as Democrats and say this guy's not right?
00:06:17.000 How many people who know this guy who come out and say this guy's dangerous?
00:06:22.000 Man, we need to listen to him.
00:06:24.000 Well, with good people like Abdulrahman El Sayed about to enter the government, you might be a little worried about the future of your money.
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00:07:22.000 Now, Congressman Rogers, one of the things that's sort of fascinating about this particular race is obviously the prior holder of the Senate seat was a Democrat.
00:07:28.000 So this would be a Republican flip, worried to win the race.
00:07:31.000 We've spent an outsized amount of attention on this race because it would be a flip seat as opposed to some of the other seats where Republicans are just trying to hold the Senate.
00:07:39.000 The reason being that, you know, I've been saying for months and months and months and months at this point that this is a bellwether for the future of the country.
00:07:45.000 If you have a Democratic Party that doesn't just sort of humor its fringe figures, but full scale embraces them and doesn't just full scale embrace them, it turns out, attacks the people who refuse to go along with the embrace, which is what's happening with Haley Stevens.
00:07:58.000 If you have a Democratic Party that will try to put Abdul Rahman El Sayed on the Foreign Relations Committee where he will have access to classified information, if you have a Democratic Party that is willing to mirror the priorities of Abdul Rahman El Sayed and treat all of the people who oppose him as though they are anathema to the Democratic Party, Then that is not just a bellwether for the Democratic Party.
00:08:18.000 It's a bellwether for the country in a fairly unique and frightening way.
00:08:22.000 Oh, and believe me, and I tell this to everyone that'll listen he will move the party to the left. 0.99
00:08:29.000 He will be the leader of this Democrat Socialist movement that has a special sauce of the Muslim Brotherhood sprinkled through. 0.88
00:08:40.000 That's who he is, that's his ideology. 0.91
00:08:42.000 And they're looking at him to help move the Democrat Party further to the left to a place where I think.
00:08:49.000 Common sense working Democrats, they're not going to recognize their party here very long.
00:08:55.000 And so that's why he becomes so dangerous.
00:08:56.000 That's why this race is really about the heart and soul of America. 0.92
00:09:00.000 You're going to permanently put somebody up there for at least six years who already marginalized and demonizes 3% of the Michigan population on a daily basis. 1.00
00:09:12.000 Oh, by the way, when they're done with the Jews, as I keep telling my Christian friends, guess who's next? 0.77
00:09:18.000 They're going to come get you because that government doesn't like the competition of people who pray to someone else.
00:09:24.000 And so you look at what's happening with his kind of policies and his poll, and why, you know, Bernie Sanders has been here multiple times.
00:09:32.000 AOC got here and said how excited they are to, you know, this is the time, this is the place that we build our momentum.
00:09:40.000 And it's all about Michigan.
00:09:42.000 Well, you're leaving behind a lot of working class Michigan citizens who are like, don't want any part of that. 0.86
00:09:49.000 Like, I just want, I want my kids to read. 0.94
00:09:51.000 I want better jobs.
00:09:53.000 I want lower costs on energy, which, by the way, they're, Their policies go the other way on all of that.
00:10:00.000 So I'm hoping that people are paying attention.
00:10:02.000 I'm not believing the polls.
00:10:04.000 I can't tell you.
00:10:05.000 It's kind of anecdotal, and I get that.
00:10:08.000 Where I'll go down to meet a group of Chaldeans who are Iraqi Christians who were persecuted, got out of Iraq by the radical Islamists, literally hugging us, my wife and I, crying.
00:10:20.000 Please don't let them bring this hate here.
00:10:23.000 Don't let them bring this hate here. 0.99
00:10:24.000 We see that in the Albanian community about communism when we see it.
00:10:29.000 In other Arab communities, some people think that all the Muslims 100% are voting for this guy.
00:10:34.000 They're not. 1.00
00:10:35.000 They don't want this here either.
00:10:37.000 That all that hatred, that kind of cauldron of anti Americanism that they're fostering on these American campuses is dangerous to our future.
00:10:48.000 They know it.
00:10:49.000 I think people are going to be surprised what this vote count looks like tomorrow.
00:10:53.000 That's Congressman Mike Rogers.
00:10:55.000 He, of course, is up for that Senate seat in Michigan.
00:10:57.000 If you're in Michigan, folks, do not stay home tomorrow.
00:11:00.000 If you've not already voted, go vote today.
00:11:02.000 And go vote for Mike Rogers and yes, against Abdul Rahman El Sayed.
00:11:05.000 Congressman Rogers, thanks so much for the time.
00:11:06.000 Really appreciate it.
00:11:08.000 Hey, Ben, thanks for having me.
00:11:09.000 God bless.
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