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On Thursday, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Michigan) posted a bizarre and racist rant against opponent Abdul El-Sayed over his criticisms of AIPAC \u2014 even as Stevens\u2019s campaign has already faced pushback for embracing bigoted attacks.<\/p>\n

In a post on X addressed directly to El-Sayed late Thursday evening, Stevens said that \u201c[e]veryone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems on Jewish Americans.\u201d She said, without basis, that El-Sayed is a \u201ccelebrity\u201d and a \u201cpart of the complainer class\u201d who is in the race to secure the \u201cnext book or podcast deal.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBro, I just want to work for Michigan,\u201d Stevens concluded in her post.<\/p>\n

The post was a quote tweet of an interview clip in which El-Sayed taunted AIPAC, which has spent roughly $30 million on Stevens\u2019s campaign \u2014 a record amount of spending on one race for the pro-Israel group \u2014 via its super PAC, United Democracy Project (UDP). In all, UDP and other outside groups have spent $60 million backing Stevens, while El-Sayed has received $4.6 million from outside groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen AIPAC watches this \u2014 come for me, see what happens,\u201d El-Sayed said. \u201cIf you think you can beat money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for All, come. But I\u2019ll tell you what people don\u2019t want, they don\u2019t want money in a foreign government. They want money here.\u201d<\/p>\n

El-Sayed has criticized the U.S. policy of funding Israel, but has also previously called for ending unconditional foreign military aid to other countries that commit abuses like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Stevens\u2019s post has been lambasted by critics as racist and Islamophobic, in part due to its invocation of the bigoted trope that Muslim people want to commit violence against Jewish people.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaley Stevens trying hard to compete with John Fetterman for the title of most racist elected Democrat in America,\u201d said Zeteo<\/em> editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan.<\/p>\n

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Pro-Israel lobby watchdog AIPAC Tracker criticized Stevens for conflating AIPAC with Jewish people. \u201cAIPAC isn\u2019t a Jewish organization, Haley. It\u2019s a pro-Israel organization. You, a non-Jewish person, are stoking dangerous antisemitism by conflating the two,\u201d the group wrote.<\/p>\n

The post came after two polls came out this week showing that El-Sayed is surging in the polls, just days before the primary election next week. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a poll by Tavern Research found that 46 percent of likely primary voters said they were choosing El-Sayed, versus 36 for Stevens. Meanwhile, Emerson College Polling\/WLNS<\/em>\/WOODTV<\/em> found in another poll on Thursday that El-Sayed would get 54 percent of the vote, pulling out a 15-point lead over Stevens\u2019s 39 percent.<\/p>\n

Stevens\u2019s campaign has already faced criticism in recent weeks over some of her backers\u2019 bigotry \u2014 including from fellow Democrats who vocally back Stevens as well as right-wing figures.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Stevens backer Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Michigan) did not say whether she would back El-Sayed if he becomes the Democratic nominee. Her reasoning was openly Islamophobic, as she said to Semafor<\/em>: \u201cI will not stand beside someone who has allowed distinctly anti-American sentiment to enter our public dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, a woman who sits on Farmington\u2019s school board, Angie Smith, also came under fire when she said she\u2019s backing Stevens because she would represent \u201cnot just one race, but all races.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to know how to work the room, don\u2019t just come in here speaking Arabic, don\u2019t come out with your Arabic music on,\u201d she went on. The video went viral online. Smith later apologized, and the Stevens campaign distanced itself from her comments.<\/p>\n

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