Tucker Carlson told his audience this week that he "wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint." Rogers is the Republican candidate for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

The man Tucker would vote for — by process of elimination — is Abdul El-Sayed: a Bernie Sanders progressive who deleted a tweet mourning "nearly 1 million lives" lost in America's post-9/11 wars with no mention of the 3,000 Americans killed in the attacks themselves, who supports Medicare for All, wealth taxes, and abolishing the filibuster, previously backed defunding the police, and was called by Bernie Sanders "the most extraordinary victory in modern American politics" when he won the Michigan Democratic primary.

Tucker's description of El-Sayed: "It's literally Trumpian."

The interview, aired on Breaking Points with Saagar Enjeti, featured Carlson dismissing Rogers as "basically a tool of Israel and the intelligence agencies" — "the AIPAC candidate." Enjeti called Rogers "a literal loser who lost when Donald Trump won the state," then praised El-Sayed for his ability "to go up against AIPAC and to win." The ideological throughline in their praise was anti-Israel sentiment — wrapped in America First packaging and handed to a conservative audience as a reason to abandon the Republican candidate.

El-Sayed's platform — Medicare for All, wealth taxes, abolishing the filibuster, expanded LGBTQ+ mandates — is fully public, unchanged by the size of the American flag behind his podium. He was championed in the primary by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Carlson and Enjeti called all of it Trumpian.

Here's the fuller picture of who they're boosting. The Michigan Independent — one of 13 state-based newspapers in a network funded by a $500,000 grant from George Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society and a $23.5 million infusion from David Brock's American Bridge operation — just ran a headline calling El-Sayed a "veteran." The headline read: "El-Sayed — veteran, doctor, and former health official — is Democratic Senate pick." El-Sayed has never served in the military. His own campaign spokesman, Cole Wozniak, had to publicly correct the record: "Abdul has never claimed to be a veteran, he never would out of his respect for those who served."

So the Soros-funded operation spent $24 million building a chain of fake local newspapers across 13 states, staffed them with reporters like Alyssa Burr — previously of The New York Times — headquartered the whole thing at 800 Maine Ave SW in Washington, D.C., and the machine can't even get the biography of its own preferred candidate right. A nonprofit pretending to be journalism pretending to be local.

And this is the candidate Tucker Carlson is helping elect.

Tucker's complaint about Rogers begins with one word: AIPAC. That was his actual description — "the AIPAC candidate." Whatever Rogers' electoral record, the AIPAC framing is what Tucker led with, and it's what Saagar echoed when he praised El-Sayed for winning "against AIPAC." What Tucker and Saagar are selling their conservative audiences is anti-Israel sentiment dressed as populism, with a Michigan Senate seat as the price tag.

When Tucker tells his conservative audience that a Medicare for All candidate is "literally Trumpian," he's doing something specific: giving conservatives permission to sit out or cross over in a race that will determine Senate control. The populist-right media ecosystem treating the GOP establishment as a greater threat than the actual Democratic Party ends, in this case, with a Bernie Sanders protégé in the U.S. Senate voting to abolish the filibuster.

Abdul El-Sayed is a far-left platform with a flag on the wall, propped up by a $24 million Soros-Brock media machine that can't fact-check its own headlines.

That platform votes with Chuck Schumer for the next six years. Tucker Carlson just told his audience to be fine with that.