Ex-Rep Justin Amash says Mike Rogers 'would be more dangerous in the US Senate' than Abdul El-Sayed

Former Michigan Congressman Justin Amash says Republican Mike Rogers would do more damage in the U.S. Senate than Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, even though Amash cast his own ballot for neither man. Amash announced on Monday, the day before the election, that he skipped both candidates in the closely watched Michigan race, which pits Rogers, who has President Donald Trump's endorsement, against El-Sayed, according to Fox News.

In a thread on X, Amash said he has sharp disagreements with each candidate and that neither is fond of him. He explained that he refuses to back a "lesser of two evils," believing voters should support only someone they truly want in the office. Even so, he argued, the difference in danger between the two is large.

To make the case, Amash compared his years in Congress alongside Rogers and Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who has backed El-Sayed and whom Amash treated as a stand-in for him. Amash said Sanders holds proposals he considers badly harmful, but lacks the power to enact them. Rogers, he contended, is poor on matters where a single lawmaker can decide the outcome, including war powers, surveillance, privacy, free speech, criminal justice and government oversight.

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