{"id":99112,"date":"2026-08-06T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/mecurio-el-sayed-has-to-push-back-on-being-called-a-communist-while-rogers-has-to-tell-people-the-economy-is-fine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:42:08","slug":"mecurio-el-sayed-has-to-push-back-on-being-called-a-communist-while-rogers-has-to-tell-people-the-economy-is-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/mecurio-el-sayed-has-to-push-back-on-being-called-a-communist-while-rogers-has-to-tell-people-the-economy-is-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecurio: El-Sayed Has To Push Back On Being Called A Communist While Rogers Has To Tell People The Economy Is Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On CNN, Paul Mecurio said that Abdul El-Sayed has the easier path to convince undecided voters to vote for him over the Republican candidate Mike Rogers:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PAUL MECURIO: Two words for this general election: extremist and affordability. That, I mean, that&#8217;s going to get the that&#8217;s the label for El-Sayed, right? and he&#8217;s got to push back on that. And the problem is when you&#8217;re accused of being a communist, now you&#8217;ve got to deal with social media, AI, things being faked. Unlike joe McCarthy&#8217;s era in the 50s when it was just tv, radio and journalism and journalists, print journalists and Rogers is about affordability.  I&#8217;d rather be El-Sayed than Rogers because rogers has to live in a fantasy where he tells his constituents that the economy is fine. otherwise, you&#8217;re going to get tanked by Trump. So I wouldn&#8217;t want to be him for $  1 million. So it&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s like a waiter comes out with a burned steak and go, oh, no, no, the chef calls it caramelized. I don&#8217;t know how he gets out of that box, if he does, and that&#8217;s going to be insulting to a lot of those voters who were on the fence or on the fence. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/06\/mecurio_el-sayed_has_to_push_back_on_being_called_a_communist_while_rogers_has_to_tell_people_the_economy_is_fine.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On CNN, Paul Mecurio said that Abdul El-Sayed has the easier path to convince undecided voters to vote for him over the Republican candidate Mike Rogers: PAUL MECURIO: Two words for this general election: extremist and affordability. That, I mean, that&#8217;s going to get the that&#8217;s the label for El-Sayed, right? and he&#8217;s got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[541,254,1413,10613,5517,29342,456,30127,321,3096,8484,3154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}