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Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
A group that calls itself "Empowering Black Americans” has been texting Michigan voters that Abdul El-Sayed has been "disrespectful and dishonest with Black voters"
Its one disclosed donor is a White businessman from Pittsburgh who gives to Republicans washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
You really think Haley Stevens is putting country over party? If that were the case, she would’ve endorsed Mike Rogers right after the primary. Instead, just three days ago, she was telling @kaitlancollins on CNN that she was voting for @AbdulElSayed.
And trust me, my life would’ve been a hell of a lot easier if I’d kept my head down and my mouth shut. I certainly would’ve benefited more professionally. But for me, putting country over party actually meant something.
When a president incites an insurrection and tries to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, that’s a line I won’t cross. And the staggering corruption and abuses of power in his second term have only reinforced that decision.
Putting country over party means standing by your principles even when it comes at a personal cost. Not suddenly abandoning them out of sheer spite to help elect someone you yourself warned was dangerous.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
The Biden Admin got almost 130,000 people out on basically no notice while the Afghan army we spent 20 years "training" and supporting crumpled like a Dixie cup. Really fucking tired of this ~disastrous withdrawal~ narrative that is utterly divorced from reality.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Haley didn't have time to scrub her Twitter feed this morning.
Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda. We can’t afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. #MISEN
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
My full statement on Haley Stevens’ terrible and selfish choice today.
ALT Haley Stevens made a terrible and selfish choice today. By endorsing Mike Rogers, she is hoping to elect a MAGA Republican who will be a rubber stamp for Trump's corrupt, authoritarian agenda. Rogers would help roll back reproductive freedom, attack LGBTQ+ rights, and put our democracy and the freedoms we have fought so hard for at risk. As a party, we can have hard conversations about Israel. As Jews, we can do the same. And we can do both without abandoning our values and giving away power to people who are actively seeking to crumble our government and democracy. Michigan voters have a clear choice on Tuesday. I urge them to reject Mike Rogers, stand with Abdul El-Sayed, and help keep this seat in the hands of a Senator with a spine.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
This is a must-read, from a man who defected from the Communist bloc to the USA 40 years ago. "What worries me the most is not Trump himself or those who do his bidding, but rather the willingness of so many ordinary citizens to look away."
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Today NYT editor Patrick Healy uses 9 Tweets to defend a naked attempt to tank Mary Peltola's campaign with an overblown 'scandal'. Last year Healy needed 11 Tweets to defend a similar naked attempt to tank Mamdani's campaign, that one sourced from a famous white supremacist. 1/
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
This Haley Stevens thing reminds me that gas in Michigan is $4.57 and diesel is $6.68 because the President started a war with Iran that Mike Rogers has been wanting for his entire professional life.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
fyi, Ray Wert is Mallory McMorrow's husband:
I’ve known Haley Stevens for a long time. Until now, she has always had staff to protect her, prop her up, and keep her safe from her own irrational behavior. What we’re seeing now? This is just raw, unfiltered Haley.
The Haley who flip-flops and goes from thought to thought without rhyme or reason. The Haley that calls you at 3 AM to yell at you, and then calls you back at 5 AM oblivious to the fact that she even spoke with you at 3 AM. The Haley who bends to the last and loudest voice that tells her something.
More often than not that last voice is now her fiancé. And as you can see by what one of her former staff people posted earlier here on X, that appears to potentially be a really troubling relationship.
Up until this point, other than a joke I made on X a few days ago, I wasn't going to say anything public about Haley Stevens or how she has comported herself since the primary. It not only wasn't appropriate, I would never, ever want anyone to think I was speaking for or on behalf of my wife. But Haley's erratic choices mean I can no longer be silent about my interactions with her since the primary ended.
I approached Haley in the middle of September about putting her name to an Op-Ed attacking Mike Rogers for his unwillingness to denounce the antisemitic members of his own team, the $10 million in support he's received from Christian nationalist Tim Dunn, and his steadfast opposition to a woman's right to choose. The goal of the Op-Ed was to remind members of the Jewish community that Mike Rogers doesn't align with our values. The proposed Op-Ed never mentioned Abdul. The only thing it asked for was to not vote for Mike Rogers.
Initially she was very interested in it.
Then she wasn't.
Then she was again.
Then she wasn't.
She never signed it.
Literally the bare minimum - attack MAGA Mike Rogers, the guy who would have been running against you had you won the primary. And that was over a month ago. This is nothing new. This is just who Haley is. By the way, here's the Op-Ed that she wouldn't let me publish.
Ken Paxton will steal a $1K pen when he thinks nobody's looking.*
*Note: Ken Paxton did, in fact, steal a $1K pen when he thought nobody was looking.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Michigan, I am the only House Democrat from our state representing a district won by President Trump. I am voting for @AbdulElSayed, and I encourage you to do the same.
The days leading up to an election are always full of distractions and noise. This cycle has been particularly bitter and hateful. Now is the time to rise above it and consider who will actually fight for you and your family. So before you cast your ballot, ask yourself: which of the candidates for Senate will,
✅End Trump’s tariffs on our allies, raising your costs and killing our jobs
✅Stop the War with Iran
✅Take on the political corruption making everything worse, and
✅Most importantly, vote with you on a generation-defining Supreme Court Justice
Then, by November 3, cast your ballot for @AbdulElSayed.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Haley Stevens has chosen to dangerously betray Michigan families’ healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers.
@AbdulElSayed must win — because Michigan and our country deserve better. -NP
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Working class people’s lives are on the ballot on Tuesday—their healthcare, their rent, their bills.
Haley Stevens just betrayed them by endorsing the very Republican she said she wanted to run against.
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Abrams on Haley Stevens: She used black people as a prop in order to pursue an agenda of sore loserness.
And having been someone who has not won everything, I thought it is deeply inappropriate to use anyone else to justify your behavior and to justify your dismay, She said he told her not to come to something. I've been asked not to come to things before. That doesn't mean that I then disavow my values
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
This is my friend. She lied to him. Done.
NYT: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said that Haley Stevens had told him in a phone call about 10 p.m. last night that she was still behind Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. Raskin said that he had pressed Stevens.
“I just want to be very clear about that: You’re supporting the whole ticket, including Abdul?” he said he had asked her. “And she said yes.”
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
One of the finest political performances I’ve seen in a long time. And a masterclass in leadership. He tamed this situation and made it work for him and Michigan. In the end, Haley’s backstab probably helped him.
El-Sayed: I have a sense that you all are here today because of the decisions of somebody who's not here right now. I'm just going to tell you, this is a state of 10 million people who deserve a lot better from their government. I'm a lot more focused on the 9,999,998 that are not the ones you guys are talking about
I'm not in the business of driving clicks for you. I'm in the business of trying to solve problems for the people of my state
Mel Valentin 🇵🇷🇺🇸 retweeted
Speaking of illegal:
A federal judge has now found twice that you are unlawfully serving as US Attorney — first as an actual one, then as a “de facto” one.
You are clinging to that position to spread election misinformation with a fake title of authority and try to disenfranchise thousands of people by claiming without evidence that they are noncitizens.
If you want to know why @GavinNewsom is behaving so bizarrely right now, it's because he's fighting overtime to count every illegal vote in the upcoming election. California admitted as much during the court proceedings in our case.
He fights for illegals and noncitizens, and has disdain for American citizens.
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