{"id":2667398,"date":"2026-09-22T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-sayed-celebrates-tucker-carlsons-support-its-maga-eating-itself\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:14:40","slug":"el-sayed-celebrates-tucker-carlsons-support-its-maga-eating-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/el-sayed-celebrates-tucker-carlsons-support-its-maga-eating-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed Celebrates Tucker Carlson\u2019s Support: It\u2019s &#8216;MAGA Eating Itself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fel-sayed-celebrates-tucker-carlsons-support-its-maga-eating-itself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2667398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content highlights a surprising political alliance between former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed. Carlson publicly endorsed El-Sayed, criticizing his Republican opponent, Mike rogers, and stating that &#8220;MAGA is eating itself,&#8221; a view El-Sayed echoed by saying that Donald Trump and MAGA are self-destructing. Their agreement extends to beliefs that dismiss the existence of Islamic terrorism and criticize the state of israel.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed\u2019s past comments, such as acknowledging that 9\/11 victims were in the region where the perpetrators found support, aligned with Carlson\u2019s critique of mainstream narratives and support for controversial views. Carlson expressed support for El-Sayed, calling him principled despite their political differences. The two also share skeptical views on issues like Islamism and Israeli policies.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship underscores a strange bedfellowship based on shared skepticism of certain mainstream policies and narratives, even as their broader political ideologies differ. Carlson&#8217;s podcast and commentary serve as platforms where these ideas are discussed, often in a provocative and conspiratorial tone.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Politics makes strange bedfellows, but few are stranger than former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, preternatural bedfellows they are, after Carlson effectively endorsed him over his Republican opponent by saying \u201cI wouldn\u2019t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint\u201d during his podcast, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/democratic-candidate-responds-to-tucker-carlsons-praise-by-saying-maga-is-eating-itself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, El-Sayed returned the favor, telling CNN that Donald Trump and MAGA is \u201ceating itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, Tucker and I don\u2019t agree on much, but we definitely agree on what he just said,\u201d he told CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what you\u2019re seeing here is MAGA eating itself, because those who believed in the ideas \u2014 the idea that we should have America first, that we shouldn\u2019t go to wars that we shouldn\u2019t be fighting, those who believe in just basic principles \u2014 folks are turning on people like Mike Rogers because Mike Rogers was a neocon, and then he decried Donald Trump when Donald Trump came to power,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, he\u2019s willing to do whatever Donald Trump tells him to do, so long as Donald Trump is happy with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that Carlson\u2019s description of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/el-sayed-finally-scrambles-distance-hasan-piker-piker-openly-threatens-violence-american-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El-Sayed\u2019s<\/a> campaign as \u201cliterally Trumpian\u201d was \u201cless about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more about Mike Rogers, and it\u2019s more about recognizing that I am going to be principled \u2014 whatever it takes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m somebody who came through an 11-to-1 spend; $70 million spent against me because I don\u2019t take corporate money and stood up on my principles. And so I think that\u2019s what [Carlson] is speaking to right now. I\u2019ve never had a conversation with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not somebody whose endorsement I sought, but really, this is more of a non-endorsement for Mike Rogers, an anti-endorsement against Mike Rogers, than it is anything about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Abdul El-Sayed Cites Tucker Carlson\u2019s Criticism of Mike Rogers in US Senate Race | N18G\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3Q99KZQRCE?start=99&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>To be fair, this is effectively about two things they both agree upon, which aren\u2019t just that Mike Rogers is bad.<\/p>\n<p>First: They agree on the issue of Islamic terror, which they think doesn\u2019t really exist. Second: They agree on the issue of the state of Israel, which they think shouldn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-rips-fox-news-viewers-agrees-el-sayeds-9-11-comments-blaming-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This strange love affair began<\/a> when it was discovered that El-Sayed told a podcast in 2021 that \u201c9\/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9\/11 scarred millions of other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talk about 9\/11, we often fail to center them,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the victims of 9\/11 were the people in the region where the perpetrators were able to find succor. And when Rep. Rogers called this \u201cdisqualifying,\u201d Tucker took to his newsletter to defend El-Sayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl-Sayed did not celebrate airplane hijackings or cheerlead Al-Qaeda; he simply said that the U.S. conducting terrorism of its own <em>in response<\/em> to 9\/11 was not exactly an appropriate reaction. He is obviously right,\u201d Carlson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really not sure who Mike Rogers is, but if anyone in Michigan\u2019s Senate race is \u2018unfit to serve in public office,\u2019 it is him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you not familiar with Carlson\u2019s new podcast, when he says that \u201cwe\u2019re really not sure\u201d who somebody is, it\u2019s basically a wink and a nod toward a certain country somewhere in West Asia that has a population that\u2019s a wee little bit different than the others. An average monologue on his show tends to go something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TUCKER<em>: Algebra: we need it, or so <strong>they<\/strong> say. But who said? And why are the numbers Arabic? Who\u2019d replace them with letters? Was someone setting up the Arabs? Who would do that? Hmm. My guest, a self-taught mathematician \u2014 and the media wants to convince you such a thing doesn\u2019t exist, but they <strong>do<\/strong> \u2014 has looked into this. The shocking things he found will have you asking questions about Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you think this pastiche ridiculous, this is actually less offensive and more grounded in reality than a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MaxNordau\/status\/2097073178623541423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">real conversation<\/a> Carlson had on the same subject with a sculptor and pottery artist who posited that they put letters in algebraic equations \u201cjust to f*** with you\u201d and had them agreeing that the subject is stuff for \u201cgood little goy slaves.\u201d When the man belies parody, you probably shouldn\u2019t be shacking up with him.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, this is roughly the same thing El-Sayed is doing when he talks about the shadowy money being spent against him \u201cbecause I don\u2019t take corporate money and stood up on my principles.\u201d Actually, that money was being spent because people were concerned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/el-sayeds-terrible-no-good-weekend-forced-apologize-jewish-community-attempts-erase-ties-hasan-piker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El-Sayed was a radical<\/a> who loathed both the state of Israel and had general contempt for the people who might move there, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mich-dems-panic-demand-reporters-stop-asking-abdul-el-sayeds-relationship-jew-hating-leftist-streamer-hasan-piker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">if you get my drift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only questions are 1) when El-Sayed finally appears on Tucker\u2019s podcast and 2) whether he brings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mich-dems-panic-demand-reporters-stop-asking-abdul-el-sayeds-relationship-jew-hating-leftist-streamer-hasan-piker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hasan Piker<\/a> with him. My guess is October and no. 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Remarkably, they have formed an unlikely partnership: Carlson openly endorsed El-Sayed over his Republican rival by stating, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint\u201d on his podcast, per Mediaite. On Monday, El-Sayed responded by telling CNN that Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are \u201cself-destructing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2667399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Michael-Featured-Image-1378.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5656,5894,33488],"class_list":["post-2667398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-maga","tag-politics","tag-tucker-carlson"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Michael-Featured-Image-1378.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667402,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667398\/revisions\/2667402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2667399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}