That's Really His Argument? - 11/3/26

In a national TV interview, Abdul Al-Sayed defended allowing boys to play in girls' sports. Al-Sayed told 60 Minutes that social issues are manufactured, and the Democrat made a comparison of boys in girls' locker rooms to discovering things on the internet. You have a phone in your pocket. You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world. Al-Sayed said the concern that young girls would find out about this stuff because of school is profoundly outdated. His challenger, Republican Mike Rogers, said this amounts to allowing men and girls locker rooms because they're going to find out about it on the internet anyway.

Rogers said Elsad's answer was completely unacceptable. Today is election day. For the latest election updates, visit zeal.co. Today is also the feast of St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian-Dominican lay brother born in Lima to a Spanish nobleman and a formerly enslaved Afro-Panamanian woman, making him the first Black saint of the Americas. Renowned for his humility and profound spiritual gifts, he was devoted to the poor and sick and established Lima's first orphanage. I'm Josh Mercer, editor of The Loop, taking you behind the headlines.

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