The attendee who pressed Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a tense town hall this weekend was exposed as a former GOP staffer with “Christian nationalist ties,” journalist Marisa Kabas reported.Saturday in Caro, Michigan, an attendee who identified himself...

The attendee who pressed Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a tense town hall this weekend was exposed as a former GOP staffer with “Christian nationalist ties,” journalist Marisa Kabas reported.

As first reported by Kabas on her Substack The Handbasket, Tommy was actually Thomas Teepell, who previously served as operations director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) until February of this year.

Teepell’s father is Timmy Teepell, a GOP strategist who worked for former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal through his climb from congressman to governor. Jindal is the founder of America Next, a conservative PAC that, according to The Michigan Daily, offered Republican college students $200 to travel to an El-Sayed event to “heckle” the Democratic candidate and ask provocative questions.

  • ProfessorScience@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    7 hours ago

    Abdul: So I’m going to ask you, do you disavow any attempt to read any religious doctrine into the laws of our country?

    Tommy: I do not.

    Abdul: You don’t disavow that. So, I think it’s you who needs to understand the Constitution, not me.

    El-Sayed played him like a fiddle. Rock on.

    • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 hours ago

      I hate Republicans like I’m so past the point of tolerating them but damn if I didn’t self-cringe listening to that ass whooping poor little Tommy just got