Musician Bob Ritchie, better known as Kid Rock, used an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “My View” this week to attack Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, calling him a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and raising fears of a future “civil war over religious ideology.”
Ritchie, who was born in Dearborn, Michigan, made the comments while discussing the state’s closely watched Senate race between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers with host Lara Trump.
“As someone who grew up in the state, I would love to get your take on that, and maybe your take overall, Bob, on the midterm elections,” Trump asked him.
“Well, number one, I was born in Dearborn, Michigan. So was my father, raised there. My grandfather raised him there. 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,” Ritchie said.
Dearborn, a city in Ritchie’s home state, is widely known for having one of the largest concentrations of Arab Americans in the country.
Asked what he sees at stake in the broader midterm elections, Ritchie pointed to education policy.
“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,” he said.
Ritchie also described 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. 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. 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.
The remarks come as El-Sayed and Rogers compete in what has been described as a high-stakes race for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat.
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