Mike Rogers on Michigan Senate coalition math
di Flint: Mike Rogers
The math Rogers is running on Michigan: pull enough Black voters in Detroit, Pontiac and Flint, plus Jewish Democrats, and the old coalition starts to crack. He says about two dozen Black pastors have sat down with him over the last few months, neighborhood meetings included. His read is that every slice off the traditional Democrat bloc makes it tougher for Abdul El Sayed to find those votes somewhere else. He puts the Jewish Democrat count in the state at around 70,000, and says they're worried about El Sayed on Israel. Names he's citing: Haley Stevens' fiancé, described as a major Jewish Democrat, saying he can't back El Sayed. A former party chairman saying the same. Rogers pins the walkaways on positions, ideology, Muslim Brotherhood ties and the DSA platform. Obama got sent to Detroit to prop up the base, and a Detroit pastor's warning about defection is the part Democrats should sit with. Wayne County, Oakland County, the literacy numbers, the food deserts for seniors downtown, all of it is his pitch. African-Americans in and around Detroit are the biggest chunk of Democrats for Rogers, per Rogers.
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We have made huge progress in the African-American community in Detroit and Pontiac and Flint. We have a massive number of Jewish Democrats who are openly and organizing to vote for us. And so you start nicking away at those traditional Democrat coalitions, it gets harder to make those votes up somewhere. And Democrats across the state are just slowly getting to know him. And the last few days, we've had the fiancé of Haley Stevens, his primary opponent, who is a major Jewish Democrat here in the state, came out and said, I can't vote for him. The Democrat chairman of the party, former Democrat, a party chairman for permission, came out and said, I can't vote for him. And so it is when you start going through a list of people walked away from this guy, it's because of his positions. It's because of his ideology. It's because of his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. It's because of his DSA platform. All of that just isn't selling well. So we think we're going to do well on Tuesday. OK so listen I want to show Wayne County is Detroit Here we go on screen guys about with 650 black residents That a rough estimate that we have Oakland County a big suburb on the edge of Detroit about 64 Jewish residents there How many times have you been to Detroit, Wayne County on this campaign? Oh, a bunch. Too many to count, honestly. And the more important part of that even is the connections that we've made there. So we've met with probably two dozen black pastors over the course of the last few months. We've had neighborhood meetings, so they have little neighborhood associations and leaders. We've met there. We've talked to business owners. We've talked to people who are worried about their kids not being able to read. Fifteen percent of Detroit eighth graders can read at a grade level, and only about 12 percent are doing math at the eighth grade level. We have a plan to help all of that. We have a plan to help the food desert that seniors in Detroit experience because there's no grocery stores downtown. So what we're doing is talking to them where they are and about issues that matter to them. And we've just gotten a ton of great response. And, you know, our biggest part of Democrats for Rogers has been African-Americans in and around Detroit. OK, so I'm watching Wayne County in Detroit on Tuesday night. AMASU WATCH IN UPSTATE AND THE RURAL VOTERS IN MICHIGAN
