{"id":102658,"date":"2025-10-08T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=102658"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:50:01","slug":"el-sayed-calls-oct-7-fundraising-email-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinresists.com\/?p=102658","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed calls Oct. 7 fundraising email a mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called a fundraising email that went out on the anniversary of Hamas&#8217; Oct. 7 attack on Israel a mistake in a statement provided first to POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat email mistakenly went out yesterday. Abdul has been clear and consistent: he holds equally valuable the lives of all innocent people and condemns violence against them,&#8221; said spokesperson Roxie Richner.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising email from El-Sayed&#8217;s campaign started by marking that &#8220;Two years ago this month, Netanyahu\u2019s military launched a ground invasion of Gaza. Since then, the world has watched tragedy unfold in real time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It drew condemnation from many on the right and some Democrats, who criticized it for omitting any mention of Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel at the outset of the war. <\/p>\n<p>The Israel-Hamas war could become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/06\/mallory-mcmorrow-michigan-democratic-primary-gaza-genocide-00594679\" target=\"_blank\">major flashpoint<\/a>in the Michigan Senate race, with Democrats believing the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee could intervene in the contest. <\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed had been a backer of Michigan&#8217;s &#8220;uncommitted&#8221; movement during the 2024 election, though he&#8217;d said he would still support Democrats over Donald Trump. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed called a fundraising email that went out on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>El-Sayed calls Oct. 7 fundraising email a mistake - Marin &amp; 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