The Michigan Democrat AIPAC, Cruz and RFK Jr. spent October attacking is the one asked to apologize

…(cont) Here's the page I keep going back to, and I apologize, because I had it out twice already in the elevator. The twentieth of October, the Guardian. The man who tried to ambush the nominee with a question about his supposed allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood — the clip the campaign then turned around and ran with — is the son of a political operator whose firm was recently paid $250,000 by a group called America Next, for canvassing and influencer marketing. The paper says the group has been trying to gin up opposition it calls organic. Organic. That's their word, off their own paperwork, I didn't bring it with me.

Which is a word I know from the yard. I've got a tomato plant coming up out of the gravel by the downspout, where the dog sleeps. Nobody planted it. The ones in the bed along the fence, I planted those, and the slip from the nursery is in my glovebox with the registration, because my wife makes me keep slips. Now if a fella leans over the fence and asks which plants are which, I don't have to argue with him. I go to the glovebox. The difference between the volunteer and the planted one is a piece of paper with a dollar amount and a date on it, and either the paper exists or it doesn't. So: in this story, does the paper exist? And how much is on it?

Then the twenty-eighth. Senator Cruz of Texas said that Americans could die if El-Sayed wins next week, and talked about who might end up on the Intelligence Committee. People called that incitement. I've only got the date and the sentence.

And then today. The health secretary posts more than 3,700 words denouncing radical Islam and calling on the nominee to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, after outlets and the campaign had rebuked him. The same Friday, Representative Stevens demands the nominee condemn an outside group's ad about aid to Israel and apologize for his comments. He says she's intent on relitigating their primary. His campaign asks her to stay away from the rally the two of them were supposed to hold together. Other Democrats say the blowup is imperiling the seat. Three days.

Oh — excuse me, one more, before you get in the elevator. Of everybody in this notebook — the super PAC, the senator, the secretary, the adviser whose firm took the $250,000 — which one has been asked this week for an apology? And which one did the paperwork call organic?