The Issue: Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens dropping her Abdul El-Sayed endorsement after their falling out.
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Stevens → drop → endorsement
Rep. Haley Stevens deserves great respect for breaking ranks and endorsing Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers (“ ’Nuff Sayed!” Nov. 2)
Loyalty to a party is not a substitute for principle.
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Loyalty → deserve → principle
When former KKK leader David Duke was nearly elected in Louisiana’s 1991 gubernatorial race, President George H.W. Bush backed a Democrat over a fellow Republican.
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Bush → elect → Republican
A party can survive losing an election.
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party → survive → election
A healthy democracy requires people willing to lose one, too.
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democracy → require → one
When El-Sayed defeated Stevens in the primary, she graciously conceded defeat and urged her supporters to unite behind him.
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she → defeat → him
How has he repaid her?
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he → repay → her
When Stevens raised concerns about comments she considered hurtful to Jewish Americans, El-Sayed dismissed it as her “relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.”
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that → raise → primary
He has failed to show even basic respect to Stevens.
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He → fail → Stevens
If Michiganders fail to elect a Democrat to fill retiring Gary Peter’s seat in the Senate, look no further than Stevens.
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Michiganders → fail → Stevens
I can’t understand why she is so bitter.
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she → understand → ?
Disappointed, yes, but she has turned outright ugly.
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she → turn → ?
She was financed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in return for her promise to support an Israeli government that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
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that → finance → Gaza
Democrats have bent over backward to accommodate antisemitic candidates in their big tent.
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Democrats → bend → tent
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer even attacked Stevens for reversing her support of El-Sayed because of his antisemitism.
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Schumer → attack → antisemitism
At least she displayed courage and moral clarity — unlike Schumer, who’s a Jew himself.
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who → display → Schumer
He is a disgrace to the people he professes to protect.
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he → profess → people
While Haley Stevens went against her party and did not endorse El-Sayed, instead endorsing the Republican nominee, Chuck Schumer betrayed the Jewish community by endorsing the antisemite.
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Schumer → go → antisemite
Leave your Trump Derangement Syndrome at home and vote for Rogers, who will stand up for all Michiganders.
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who → leave → Michiganders
Many Democrats, like Rep. Stevens, have already turned on El-Sayed.
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Democrats → turn → Sayed
Livingston, NJ
The Issue: Barack Obama condemning the Trump administration’s Rep. Ilhan Omar investigation.
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Obama → condemn → investigation
No one knows who the hell Ilhan Omar really is (“Selective ‘outrage,’ ” Editorial, Oct. 30).
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Omar → know → outrage
One thing is for sure, though: She’s a liar.
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She → ’ → ?
How many people has she married?
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she → marry → people
Now, out of nowhere, we have one of the worst presidents in our country’s history blabbing about the Trump administration’s investigation.
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one → have → investigation
I guess Barack Obama forgot about his buddy Joe Biden having the FBI raid President Trump’s home.
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FBI → guess → home
Omar should be deported back to Somalia.
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Omar → deport → Somalia
We’ll see how much she can steal from that government.
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she → see → government
Ironically, Obama’s selective outrage over the Omar investigation didn’t include his own administration’s first investigation of her marriage.
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outrage → include → marriage
Obama should welcome the findings of this investigation.
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Obama → welcome → investigation
It might give Omar the opportunity to return to Somalia, the country she loves so much (surely not America).
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she → give → Somalia
Letters are subject to editing for clarity, length, accuracy, and style.
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Letters → edit → clarity
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