A right-wing media star siding with a Democrat against a Republican Senate candidate is a headache for Mike Rogers and a boost for Abdul El-Sayed.

• Tucker Carlson tore into Mike Rogers in his newsletter and on his podcast, calling him unfit for office and a tool of the intelligence agencies.
• The fight started when old podcast comments from El-Sayed resurfaced, where he said the U.S. response to 9/11 scarred millions of people abroad.
• Rogers called that disqualifying; Carlson said El-Sayed was obviously right about the wars that followed.
• Brown University researchers put the total death toll from the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan at 4.5 to 4.7 million, counting hunger, disease and displacement.
• El-Sayed is keeping his distance from Carlson anyway, likely worried about donors and liberal media backlash.

Outlook: Expect more right-left overlap on foreign policy as younger conservatives turn against the neocon wing, even if Democratic candidates stay too cautious to team up openly.