Discussion on Michigan Senate Race and Politics

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in the richest, most affluent suburbs, and I spent so much time

in the ghettos. And, um, that really shaped so much about me,

to see all different walks of life.

You know, we have a saying in Detroit that is, "Tough times don't last, tough

people do."

Um, definitely made me tough, made me resilient.

It's kind of those values and, uh, the foundation that I got growing

up in and around Detroit and Michigan that, uh, they gave me that.

Yeah. Well, as, as you know, and as a lot of people are watching,

there's this very

high-stakes race there-

Yeah

... for the US Senate between Mike Rogers

and Abdul El-Sayed.

As someone who grew up in the state, I would love to get your take on that, and

maybe your take o- overall, Bob, on the midterm elections.

Well, number one, I was born in Dearborn, Michigan.

So was my father, raised there. My grandfather raised him there.

And as we know, I don't know if people understand how it got to be one

of the

biggest Arab populations outside of the Middle East in the world.

I call it more of a, uh,

a religious ideology. I know there's extremists and there's

milder versions of it. I don't wanna see my grandkids one day

have to fight some

civil war over religious ideology. This is scary.

I think El-Sayed's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

What's at stake? Oh, my gosh. I mean, do you want your children,

um, to be under the, uh, arm of teachers unions?

Or would you like them to go to school to learn the basics and to l- and to be

taught,

you know, about the men and women who fought

and died for this country?

Or do you want them to, to go to school and learn about gender

identity?

It's pretty simple. You know, until this point in politics, and,

and going back several years, I never felt... Democrats didn't scare me.

It's like, "Okay, we think differently.

You're big government, I'm small government." You know? A-

all those things.

I never thought any of them genuinely hated our country.

Now I look around and I go, "Wait, these people hate our country."

So, you know, my hope is that even,

even our Democratic friends who can't stand President Trump, who have,

have the c-

have the case of TDS, maybe they stay home.

Maybe they don't vote because their conscience will not let them vote to

destroy

our country.

Well, speaking of TDS, someone who I think has a pretty bad case

of it is Phil

Collins. And, uh, this week, he described the president as

nasty and unattractive. So as someone who's had a

long friendship with President Donald Trump, Bob, how would you describe

the president?

Number one, outside of the presidency, just as a human being, couldn't have a

better friend.