President Donald Trump invited Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) to join the Republican Party after she endorsed former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) for the open Senate seat over her fellow Democrat, Abdul El-Sayed.
\n\nSpeaking to rallygoers in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday, Trump praised the former Senate candidate’s bravery for saying “what few people are willing to say,” and called El-Sayed a “jihadist.”
\n\n“I’m happy with what she did. She was very brave in doing it. So, I don’t know Haley — I’ve never met Haley — but Haley said what few people are willing to say,” the president told a crowd of supporters. “I’d love her to join the Republican Party, actually. I think that could happen.”
\n\nHe continued on, saying Stevens “showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the great people of Michigan” before implying that El-Sayed is a terrorist.
\n\n“That’s another important election for us. We don’t want to have a jihadist […] Can you imagine, we’ll have to put him through metal detectors […] We’ll have 100 senators, and most of them they can go direct — we’re going to have to get a special metal detector for Abdul,” Trump mused. “A party that hates America cannot be…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
