Ep. 2499 - Tucker Endorses America-Hating, Pro-Jihadi El-Sayed

September 3, 2026

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Tucker Carlson’s New Coalition: Pro-Jihadi, Anti-American, and Aimed at Republican Defeat

Ben Shapiro opens this episode with a blunt thesis: Tucker Carlson has endorsed Abdul Rahman El-Sayed, a Michigan Senate candidate who “hates America, Western civilization, capitalism, the Jews, and the police.” The endorsement, Shapiro argues, reveals Carlson’s actual political project—not conservative victory, but Republican defeat, driven by an obsessive conspiracy theory that Israel and its Jewish supporters control American policy.

Who Abdul Rahman El-Sayed Is—and What He Believes

Shapiro walks through El-Sayed’s record methodically. On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, El-Sayed tweeted that he mourned “3,000 lives, 6,000 injuries and infrastructural devastation in New York City, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith”—then said he would “mourn one million lives, millions of injuries and infrastructural devastation in three countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country,” drawing a moral equivalence between al-Qaeda and the United States.

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1 (02:10) **Tucker Endorses Abdul El-Sayed** - Ben Shapiro announces that Tucker Carlson has effectively endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, calling him "America first."
2 (03:35) **Who Is Abdul El-Sayed?** - Shapiro profiles the Michigan Senate candidate, detailing his anti-American and anti-Israel statements.
3 (07:43) **Hasan Piker's America Hatred** - Shapiro plays a montage of Hasan Piker repeatedly saying "I hate America" and explaining his hatred stems from U.S. support for Israel.
4 (11:22) **Tucker's Endorsement Explained** - Shapiro plays the clip of Tucker and his co-hosts calling El-Sayed "America first" and saying they wouldn't vote for Republican Mike Rogers "at gunpoint."
5 (13:49) **Tucker's Pattern: Mamdani and Greene** - Shapiro shows Tucker previously praised Zoran Mamdani, a socialist NYC mayoral candidate, alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene.
6 (17:54) **Tucker's Obsession with Israel** - Shapiro provides data showing Israel was Tucker's #2 topic by word volume (tied with President Trump), while it was #8 on Shapiro's show.
7 (23:15) **The Strategy to Sink Republicans** - Shapiro explains Tucker only needs to peel off 10% of GOP voters to flip close races, which is his actual goal.

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Guests on this episode

Ben Shapiro Mike Rogers

Show Notes

Tucker Carlson says that pro-jihadi, America-hating Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is "America First" while ripping into Mike Rogers; Mike Rogers joins us on the line to discuss his race, because at least on this show, we like America and don’t like pro-jihadi communists; and we bring you the latest on the Lindsey Clancy trial, and the latest from the Venice Film Festival, where actors are saying silly things.

Ep. 2499

Mike Rogers for Michigan Senate: https://rogersforsenate.com

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