Musician Bob Ritchie, better known as Kid Rock, criticized Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during an appearance this week on Fox News Channel’s “My View,” calling the Michigan Democrat a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and raising concerns about the state’s Arab population and what he described as a competing religious ideology.
El-Sayed is running against Republican Mike Rogers in a closely watched race for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan. Host Lara Trump asked Ritchie, a Michigan native, for his take on the contest and the broader midterm elections.
“Well, number one, I was born in Dearborn, Michigan. So was my father, raised there. My grandfather raised him there,” Ritchie said. “And as we know, I don’t know if people understand how it got to be one of the biggest Arab populations outside of the Middle East in the world. I call it more of a religious ideology. I know there’s extremists and there’s milder versions of it. I don’t want to see my grandkids one day have to fight some civil war over religious ideology. This is scary. I think El-Sayed is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
“What’s at stake? Oh my gosh — I mean, do you want your children to be under the arm of teachers’ unions, or would you like them to go to school to learn the basics and to be taught, you know, about the men and women who fought and died for this country, or do you want them to go to school and learn about gender identity? It’s pretty simple.”
Ritchie went on to describe a shift in how he views the Democratic Party more broadly.
“You know, until this point in politics, and going back several years, I never felt — Democrats didn’t scare me,” he said. “It’s like, OK, we think differently. You’re big government; I’m small government. You know, all of those things. I never thought any of them genuinely hated our country. Now, I look around and I go, wait, these people hate our country.”
He added a hope that some Democratic voters disillusioned with former President Trump might sit out the election rather than vote for the opposing party.
“So, you know, my hope is that even our Democratic friends who can’t stand President Trump, who have the case of TDS, maybe they stay home, maybe they don’t vote because their conscience will not let them vote to destroy our country,” he said.
