Former Rep. Justin Amash — who announced on Monday that he did not vote for Abdul El-Sayed or former Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan's U.S. Senate race — said he thinks El-Sayed would "be far less dangerous in practice than Rogers."
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Sayed → announce → Rogers
Rogers, a Republican candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, is facing Democratic candidate El-Sayed in the widely-watched Senate contest.
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Rogers → endorse → contest
"It goes without saying that I have major disagreements with both Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed, and neither one particularly likes me," Amash wrote in a thread on X. "I also don’t vote for 'the lesser of two evils.'
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I → go → evils
I believe you should support a candidate only if you truly want the person to hold that office.
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person → believe → office
I’ve already voted, and consistent with the above principle, I didn’t vote for Rogers or El-Sayed.
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I → vote → Rogers
But I do know which one would be more dangerous in the U.S. Senate — and it’s not even close."
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it → know → Senate
Amash pointed to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as a political figure who resembles El-Sayed.
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who → point → Sayed
Sanders has supported El-Sayed in the Senate race.
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"To assess who is the greater threat to American freedom, let’s take a look at my time in Congress with Rogers and Bernie Sanders, who shares many of El-Sayed’s views and can serve as his stand-in," Amash wrote.
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But given the structure of our government, he’s in no position to get those ideas enacted and enforced.
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ideas → give → position
"In contrast, Rogers is extraordinarily bad on all the issues on which an individual member of Congress may be the deciding vote.
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member → decide → Congress
Again, these are issues like war powers, surveillance, privacy, the freedom of speech, criminal justice, and government oversight and accountability," he asserted.
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he → assert → speech
"In this world — the real world, not the imaginary one that partisan pundits on the right and left live in — Rogers poses a far greater threat to individual liberty and the Constitution than Sanders.
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Rogers → live → Sanders
Moreover, it’s not just that Rogers is awful here; it’s that Sanders is actually much better on these issues than the median member of Congress."
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Sanders → ’ → Congress
Amash asserted that between Rogers and El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate would be "less dangerous."
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candidate → assert → Rogers
"I think it’s fair to view El-Sayed as someone who mostly will follow in Sanders’s footsteps on policy and therefore will be far less dangerous in practice than Rogers," Amash wrote, adding in parentheses, "(Again, El-Sayed as a senator will do many things that are bad.
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The question addressed at length is not whether he’s good but simply whether he’s better on the whole than Rogers.)
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The Rogers and the El-Sayed campaigns did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment on Tuesday.
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Amash, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from early 2011 until early 2021, voted to impeach President Donald Trump in late 2019.
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While he served most of his congressional tenure as a Republican, Amash switched to Independent in 2019 and then to Libertarian in 2020.
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Amash → serve → 2020
He lost the 2024 GOP Michigan U.S. Senate primary to Rogers.
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Rogers went on to lose the general election that year to Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who was a House lawmaker at the time.
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Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., who lost the Democratic Senate primary to El-Sayed this year, shook up the 2026 general election when she endorsed Rogers on Sunday.
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