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MAGA Senate hopeful obliterated after attack on Dem opponent backfires spectacularly

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Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers attacked his Democratic opponent recently for campaigning “with people who say America deserved 9/11,” but a new report published Saturday exposed Rogers' own checkered history with the terror attack. On Thursday, Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed criticized Rogers for voting to “deny health care for 9/11 first responders” on two separate occasions. As a U.S. House member, Rogers did, in fact, vote against a 2010 bill designed to provide health care for 9/11 first responders and survivors, arguing at the time that the legislation “jeopardizes the financial health of the United States.” Rogers called El-Sayed’s claim a “lie” and attacked him for campaigning with progressive streamer and activist Hasan Piker, who in 2019 said “America deserved 9/11.” Immediately after his remark, Piker argued that an attack on U.S. soil was inevitable due to American military interventionism abroad. “You’ve got some nerve,” Rogers wrote in a social media post

First report: GOP uses 9/11 anniversary to bash left-wing Dems — axios.com, 5d