The Brief U.S. Senate candidates are wasting no time going on the attack as Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed look forward to the November election. El-Sayed called his opponent a bootlicker of Donald Trump while Rogers issued a statement saying the Democrat "believes America deserved 9/11." Abdul El-Sayed will take on Mike Rogers in November in what will be one of the most-watched elections of the 2026 Midterms. In Rogers' first statement about the primary, he called El-Sayed an extremist who "believes America deserved 9/11" — a reference to Hasan Piker's comment about the terrorist attack and his support of El-Sayed. Whether that success translates to the general election will be the talk of Michigan and national politics up until Nov. 3.