Mike Rogers: "El-Sayed Is A Conman; How Does A Doctor Have a Million Dollar Home In The UAE? Or Is It Egypt?"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/08/mike_rogers_el-sayed_is_a_conman_how_does_a_doctor_have_a_million_dollar_home_in_the_uae.html

Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed get personal at Thursday night's Michigan Senate debate (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/08/michigan_senate_debate_abdul_el-sayed_vs_mike_rogers.html):

REP. MIKE ROGERS (R-MI): What my friend here just wants to do is-he's kind of like a glitchy AI chatbot. It's the same thing over and over and over again.

But let me tell you this. He has taken money from groups associated with and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. He has taken money from individuals on his campaign who openly support Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda.

He's taken money from the George Soros family. What we found out is this thing goes way back. Apparently, they paid for his education in Columbia. Now they're paying for his campaign. By the way, that's a billionaire, last I checked.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: What degree did I get at Columbia?

MODERATOR: I'm going to give you a 30-second rebuttal.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: What degree did I get at Columbia?

MIKE ROGERS: [Unclear.]

ABDUL EL-SAYED: As a doctor. I understand exactly what's happening. He likes to say the same thing. He's done the same thing over and over and over again.

You know what that is? Vote to keep your prescription drug prices high 19 times. A million dollars alone from Big Pharma, another million dollars from the health insurance corporations.

Of course he's touting their talking points. This is a guy who has not been serious about providing people health care his entire career.

What he has been serious about is making sure that he can monetize his time in public office. Fourteen million dollars, two yachts, a McMansion in Florida.

So at the end of the day, I'm a doctor. I want people to have health care.

MODERATOR: All right, so how does the-

[UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER]: How do you move on after this?

MODERATOR: Thirty seconds.

MIKE ROGERS: Let me-how does a guy who's had less than four years of work experience, who, by the way, on the campaign trail said he had ten -- own a luxury property in the United Arab Emirates-he's worth a million bucks. Somebody has to tell me how this math works.

His facts are wrong. Those are lies. But he has consistently not told the truth. Well, let me just say it. He's lying.

So he lied about being a physician. He lied now about being an Egyptian citizen, or not Egyptian citizen. I can't figure out what he is today.

He's trying to tell you where he wants you to be. That's a con man.

MODERATOR: Congressman, we've got to stay on time.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: I just want to respond to this.

MODERATOR: You can respond directly.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: He wanted to make this about him or me, but the question is about you.
Can you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries under this guy who's going to rubber-stamp everything Donald Trump tells him to rubber-stamp?

You're going to continue to pay way more out the nose because he works for corporations and Donald Trump.