Elizabeth Warren, the U.S. senator sometimes referred to as "Pocahontas," has finally found a limit to her tolerance for Nazi-adjacent Democrats. She eagerly backed Graham Platner, who had a Nazi skull tattooed on his chest and a history of palling around with antisemitic influencers. "That's my kind of man," Warren said while sharing a stage with Platner in April. "That is a man who not only has the values, but a man who believes in accountability." She was shocked, shocked, to learn he had been credibly accused of rape. (It's never the obvious scumbags you suspect.)
Days after Platner dropped out, Warren endorsed Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan. The candidate has no direct Nazi affiliations, but he was recently endorsed by a group whose leader has praised the "freedom fighters" of Hamas and called for Israeli Jews to be sent "back to Poland." Last month, El-Sayed appeared on stage with a Muslim cleric who applauded the October 7 terrorist attack and said the Holocaust death toll "has been exaggerated."
These are some of the Nazi-adjacent behaviors Warren finds acceptable. Nevertheless, she didn't feel comfortable sharing a stage with a Democratic fundraiser best known for honoring her Nazi grandfather's military service on Veterans Day.
Jewish Insider reports that Warren was scheduled to speak this weekend at an El-Sayed fundraiser hosted by Kelly Neumann, a Michigan-based personal injury lawyer. Warren appears to have canceled that appearance after the publication reached out for comment. El-Sayed's campaign said the senator was never scheduled to speak at the fundraiser and blamed a "clerical error" for the mix-up.
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