An unsubstantiated claim by far-right influencer Tucker Carlson that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressuring President Donald Trump to authorize a nuclear strike against Iran gained traction on Monday among prominent liberal figures on social media.

One such booster was Christiane Amanpour, the longtime chief international anchor of CNN, who reposted Carlson’s post on X with the caption, “This would be insane.”

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed defended his sharp criticism of Israel over other Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, in an extended “60 Minutes” interview released on Sunday.

The remarks came amid growing tensions over El-Sayed’s position on Israel ahead of Tuesday’s election, with Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), whom El-Sayed defeated in the Democratic primary, endorsing his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, on Sunday.

ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Rep. Haley Stevens’ (D-MI) surprise endorsement of GOP former Rep. Mike Rogers on Sunday after a public falling out with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed provided a last-minute shake-up in Michigan’s Senate race.

The endorsement could help push undecided Jewish voters, who strongly supported Stevens during the primary, toward Rogers. Stevens received a standing ovation at an annual gala on Sunday evening for Yeshiva Beth Yehuda, the largest yeshiva in Michigan, alongside a number of other Democratic and Republican officials and candidates.

Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan had her strongest showing yet on Friday in the race to become the next U.N. secretary-general in the latest Security Council straw poll, while the United Arab Emirates’ newly nominated candidate, Lana Nusseibeh, failed to disrupt the established front-runners.

The race remains far from settled, though, with questions surrounding potential vetoes from permanent Security Council members — the U.S., U.K., France, Russia and China — and the possibility of additional candidates entering the contest. In addition, unlike the previous round on Oct. 16, Friday’s straw poll did not use color-coded ballots distinguishing the votes of permanent members from those of the council’s 10 elected members, leaving unclear whether the candidates face opposition from veto-wielding countries.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday that Palestine has a right to exist but offered conditions when asked if the same is true of Israel.

Asked by journalist Ross Douthat whether Israel has a right to exist, El-Sayed countered with, “I don’t ever get the question of, ‘does Palestine have a right to exist?’” — a response he has given in the past.

Leaders with the Nonnegotiable movement of liberal Michigan Jewish voters disenchanted with Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed recommended writing in the name of poet Emma Lazarus for Michigan’s Senate race, rather than leaving the ballot line blank, even as one leader of the group acknowledged that voting for Republican Mike Rogers is the “most efficient and effective way” of defeating El-Sayed.

Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), who has not endorsed El-Sayed, also joined the call, but did not directly mention or address El-Sayed or Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), who she campaigned for during the Democratic Senate primary. 

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) endorsed Republican Michigan Senate nominee Mike Rogers after appearing alongside Rogers at a Black church in Detroit on Sunday following days of deteriorating relations between her and Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

Stevens’ endorsement, accentuated by the joint appearance at Detroit’s Perfecting Church, marked an unexpected twist in the Michigan Senate race, two days ahead of the midterms. It came after Stevens warned that El-Sayed was failing to reassure Jewish and Black voters who supported her in the primary.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) accused Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed of “going after” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) for her attempts to hold him “accountable for his views on Israel and fixation with Jewish money.”

The Pennsylvania senator made the comments to Jewish Insider amid the public dispute between El-Sayed and Stevens in the final days of the general election. Fetterman criticized El-Sayed’s decision to put out a statement attacking his Democratic primary rival, and the subsequent reports that his campaign had asked Stevens to stay away from all future campaign events, as an “overreaction” that highlights “why he struggles with groups of Michigan voters.”