Former Jill Biden press secretary Michael LaRosa surprised Democrats by throwing his support behind Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race this November.
According to Fox News, LaRosa’s criticism of Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is primarily on his refusal to distance himself from far-left streamer Hasan Piker over his past 9/11 comments.
Piker has drawn immense outrage for saying in a 2019 livestream that “America deserved 9/11.”
“I refused to defend or support anyone with an SS Totenkampf tattoo, simply because they had a ‘D’ next to their name. I won’t defend or support anyone who is too cowardly to stand up to extremists who think the mother of my best friend, who jumped from 95 stories because the alternative was worse, deserved what happened to her,” LaRosa said Saturday.
“Her only crime was showing up to work that morning. The Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan won’t or can’t stand up to the guy who says she ‘deserved’ what she got that morning she showed up for work,” he continued.
I refused to defend or support anyone with an SS Totenkampf tattoo, simply because they had a "D" next to their name.
— Michael LaRosa (@MichaelLaRosaDC) August 8, 2026
I won't defend or support anyone who is too cowardly to stand up to extremists who think the mother of my best friend, who jumped from 95 stories because the… https://t.co/hC6s7W7PfK
Fox News shared further:
LaRosa's rebuke is about more than one Democrat refusing to back another.
It highlights a growing fault line within the party over extremism and the boundaries of acceptable political rhetoric. Those divisions could ultimately push some longtime Democrats across the aisle in consequential races.
That dynamic could prove particularly consequential in Michigan, where the Senate contest could help shape the balance of power in Washington and even a small erosion of Democratic support could matter.
LaRosa isn’t the only prominent Democrat supporting Rogers in the Michigan Senate race.
Julian Epstein, an attorney and former chief counsel to the Democratic House Judiciary Committee, said he will back Rogers.
“After decades of giving my all for Democratic House and Senate candidates, this fall I will support — and contribute to — Mike Rogers, Michigan's GOP Senate nominee, instead. And I'll do everything I can to make sure other Democrats follow,” Epstein wrote in an op-ed.
"After decades of giving my all for Democratic House and Senate candidates, this fall I will support — and contribute to — Mike Rogers, Michigan’s GOP Senate nominee, instead. And I’ll do everything I can to make sure other Democrats follow."
— Michael LaRosa (@MichaelLaRosaDC) August 7, 2026
- @JulianEpstein in the @nypost…
More from the New York Post:
With the exception of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, my party's leaders have sought to appease the dangerous faction rising in our midst.
Weak, timid figures like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are spouting empty clichés — "We are a big-tent party" — while abdicating their moral and political responsibilities.
Democrats aren't coddling Scandinavian-style socialists; they're getting into bed with a nihilistic, deconstructionist brand of third-worldism.
It's an ideology that seeks the elimination of prisons, policing, borders, the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court and democratic free markets.
A worldview that aligns with genocidal jihadist movements like Hamas.
A generation ago, the left would've recognized this cadre as Trojan horse doing the bidding of our adversaries.
But not today.
And as working-class voters flee an increasingly toxic Democratic brand, the party's newfound embrace of anti-American extremists is likely to produce big losses nationally — and a civil war within.
In Michigan in particular, Rogers will frame a devastating portrait of El-Sayed that will further damage the party's deteriorating image.
El-Sayed parrots Sen. Bernie Sanders' delusion that attaches no importance to generating wealth — and only cares about redistributing it.
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