{"id":14182,"date":"2025-10-08T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/el-sayed-calls-oct-7-fundraising-email-a-mistake\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:46:36","slug":"el-sayed-calls-oct-7-fundraising-email-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/el-sayed-calls-oct-7-fundraising-email-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed calls Oct. 7 fundraising email a mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<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 Blue Light News.<\/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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 Blue Light News. \u201cThat email mistakenly went out yesterday. Abdul has been clear and consistent: he holds equally valuable the lives of all innocent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}