'Keep the name out of your mouth!' Progressive trashes 'bitter' GOP ads in searing rebuke

Now that he has won the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is pivoting to the general election and going up guns blazing against his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American former public health director in Detroit, took aim at the GOP for scaremongering about him by using a lengthened form of his name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, in their attack ads.

"They think they want to use my whole name against me," said El-Sayed. "Mike, listen man, if you can't say the name — it's Abdulrahman — keep the name out [of] your d--- mouth."

El-Sayed then challenged Rogers to a series of debates and threw in a jab about the recent controversy that Rogers may actually live in Florida instead of Michigan.

"Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright?" said El-Sayed. "If you're willing to stand with me and have a conversation, you and I both know that you will wither in front of your own crimes. But I'm gonna make sure Michiganders know about them. By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe harbor from people holding you accountable for what you've done for them here in Michigan."

"We will send you back to Florida where you belong," he added.