by ELIANA JONSHON OCT 9 2026 --------------------- Abdul El-Sayed speaks during Thursday night’s debate (Screenshot) Israel is an American ally. Iran calls us the Great Satan and has killed and kidnapped over 1,000 Americans. And yet, to Abdul El-Sayed, the two nations pose equal threats to the United States. El-Sayed made that argument during a Thursday evening debate against his Republican opponent, former congressman Mike Rogers. Asked whether he agreed with a supporter who had argued that Israel is a greater threat to the United States than Iran, El-Sayed initially refused to answer, calling it “a ridiculous hypothetical.” Then he said Israel and Iran both threaten the United States. “I think both of them have proven dangerous in their own way,” El-Sayed said. “One at risk of attacking us. One getting us into wars we have no business fighting.” https://youtu.be/StSs19OMBZc https://youtu.be/PBCjsFzz-R4 “The answer marks the latest example of El-Sayed, who has struggled with historically Democratic Jewish voters in Michigan, downplaying Islamic terrorism,” the Free Beacon‘s Alana Goodman writes. “Earlier this year, when a Lebanese American man drove a car packed with explosives into the Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan after his brother, a commander in the Iranian-backed terror outfit Hezbollah, died in an Israeli airstrike, El-Sayed said ‘it’s just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people.’ He also told staffers on a private campaign strategy call in March that he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei because ‘there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,’ the Free Beacon reported.” READ MORE: ‘Both of Them Have Proven Dangerous in Their Own Way’: Abdul El-Sayed Says Iran and Israel Are Equal Threats to United States https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GdU7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe047a01a-38e4-4efa-b4bd-78e61b51e465_1536x1024.jpeg Troy Jackson (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Troy Jackson has called the pharmaceutical industry “the anti-Christ” and attacked “high-priced lobbyists and corporate greed.” He also appears to have a close relationship with a pair of Maine lobbyists who represented a pharmaceutical company that faced intense criticism for jacking up the price of its cystic fibrosis drug, the Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson reports. The lobbyists, Kate Knox and Alysia Melnick of Bernstein Shur, were spotted in the background of a September 27 “Families for Troy” event, indicating they were invited by Jackson’s campaign. They have worked as registered lobbyists since at least 2024, when they began representing the Boston-based drug developer Vertex Pharmaceuticals, lobbying on a bill that called to increase access to drugs like Vertex’s non-opioid pain medication Journavx. Jackson, who served as president of the Maine Senate at the time, submitted testimony in favor of the bill that cited the drug as “promising” and “game changing.” He had a prior relationship with Knox, who represented him in a 2017 case related to Maine’s ranked-choice voting law. “Jackson’s embrace of Vertex—and, seemingly, its lobbyists—came one year after the company sparked controversy by moving to ‘slash the amount of financial assistance that it offers to patients’ receiving its brand-name cystic fibrosis medicine, Orkambi, as the health care publication STAT News reported,” Anderson writes. “Vertex reduced the annual copay assistance it offered for the drug ‘from approximately $100,000 a year to $20,000.’ A man in Utah who needed the drug for his two-year-old daughter went from paying ‘just $180 out of pocket each year to a whopping $43,600,’ prompting him to change his health insurance.” “The ‘Families for Troy’ event featuring Melnick and Knox is the latest example of Jackson’s close ties to the lobbying industry he decries on the campaign trail. In 2021, Jackson’s former chief of staff and current campaign adviser, B.J. McCollister, left Jackson’s office to launch Resurgam Group, a ‘full service lobbying’ firm that pledged to ‘leverage our strong existing relationships’ in the state legislature to ‘help deliver results.’ One year later, in 2022, McCollister brought on Jackson’s son, Chace Jackson, as a partner.” The firm received $182,500 in lobbying compensation from Chace’s clients in Troy’s final year as president of the Maine Senate. READ MORE: Troy Jackson, Who Called Big Pharma ‘the Anti-Christ,’ Spotted Campaigning With Lobbyists Who Repped Pharma Company That Jacked Up Price of Cystic Fibrosis Drug /// ramon santos peñalva hace 6 h HELLO ELIANA Believe it or not, reality is stranger than fiction... 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