El-Sayed says the core problem in politics is corporations, billionaires and special interests buying politicians, and calls Trump its worst symptom.
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El-Sayed says his first bills would end Citizens United, pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Medicare for All and the PRO Act.
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El-Sayed says he has never solicited corporate money for a campaign, and says he was outspent 11 to 1.
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“Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He's the worst symptom of the disease of our politics.”
“The disease is the system that tells us that corporations and billionaires and special interests should be able to buy and sell politicians to do their bidding.”
Rogers says Chinese cars built in the US are the auto industry's biggest threat, and wants China kept out until it follows US rules.
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Rogers says China's military is the biggest geopolitical threat, and proposes bringing defense industrial base manufacturing back to Michigan.
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“Biggest existential threat to the uh United States automobile industry is China producing cars in the United States. Full stop. Uh can't let that happen.”
“We've never really had a United States senator who cares about Michigan being in the defense industrial base manufacturing side. And those are the best paying jobs.”
El-Sayed proposes passing the PRO Act so workers can organize unions without union busting, and adds prevailing wage on work sites.
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El-Sayed argues the US has corporatism rather than capitalism, and proposes antitrust enforcement to break up the biggest corporations.
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El-Sayed says Trump's Canada tariffs raise costs, and proposes targeted, time-limited tariffs to protect industries such as autos and agriculture.
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“So the single most important thing that we can do is to normalize and enable union organizing in every sector of American life by finally passing that proact.”
“if we're serious about empowering people with a living wage and good benefits, then we've got to be serious about stepping up and passing the PRO Act.”
Rogers proposes a state and federal gas tax holiday, saying it would save drivers about 70 cents a gallon.
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Rogers calls for a diesel export ban, and says prices would fall quickly once shipping resumes.
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Rogers argues El-Sayed's policies would make energy and utility bills more expensive.
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“I've called for a tax holiday uh for both state and federal. I think it would it would save the average driver about 70 cents a gallon uh at this time.”
El-Sayed says ending the war in Iran would ease gas prices, arguing it cut oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz.
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El-Sayed says a few corporations collude to set prices, and says DTE should no longer raise rates faster than other states.
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El-Sayed proposes data center terms on union labor, water, electricity rates and reliability, with state and local moratoria until federal rules exist.
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“Because we're fighting a stupid war in Iran. We have no business fighting.”
Rogers says fourth-grade reading is the biggest crisis for the state and nation, citing three of five Michigan fourth graders who cannot read.
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Rogers proposes returning to phonics-based reading, restoring third-grade reading retention and using federal Title One money for remediation.
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Rogers proposes shop classes in every high school, and wants the first 40 hours of welfare work requirements used for reading assessment.
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“I think we should put shop back in every high school. Uh, and you gota you have to give kids purpose.”
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El-Sayed proposes funding police recruitment, retention and retirement, behavioral health crisis response and community violence intervention.
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El-Sayed supports the George Floyd Policing Act for accountability, and opposes private prisons.
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El-Sayed says he declared a public health emergency at Wayne County's juvenile detention facility and raised staff wages 35%.
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“It also means that we need to be funding recruitment, retention, and retirement for law enforcement.”
Rogers proposes tax-free savings accounts for home down payments that businesses can contribute to, plus credit for rent payments.
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Rogers proposes tax-free housing zones for builders and a transparency standard on local regulatory costs, saying regulation adds $25,000 per new home.
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“We're going to allow you to save tax-free for a down payment. And we're also going to allow businesses to contribute to that fund,”
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El-Sayed says after Flint his department tested every Detroit school, daycare and Head Start for lead in water and helped rewrite state lead policy.
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“So, we had every school, daycare, and head start tested for lead in the water.”
Rogers says Michigan needs a change after 32 years of one-party senators, and says he will work with any party on education and manufacturing jobs.
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Rogers says El-Sayed has taken money from CAIR, which Rogers calls associated with a terrorist organization, and $130,000 from people associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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“We send two people of the same party who think the same way. They talk the same way. They've been voting the same way. Okay, we got to change that.”
El-Sayed cites rebuilding Detroit's health department and leading Wayne County's, including free children's glasses, lead testing, Narcan vending machines and medical debt relief.
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El-Sayed says Rogers took corporate and pharmaceutical money, voted 19 times to keep drug prices higher, and made $14 million advising corporations.
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El-Sayed says he disavowed Hasan Piker's comments about Jewish Americans, and says Piker does not speak for him.
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“We put glasses on kids, tens of thousands of them. Took on corporate polluters to take on the asthma crisis.”