El-Sayed aide says Rogers ad with vintage truck and US flags is like a ‘KKK cross burning’

The campaign of Abdul El-Sayed distanced itself from bizarre comments by a campaign aide comparing an innocuously patriotic ad from Mike Rogers to a Ku Klux Klan cross burning.

The ad showed Rogers riding in a bright red antique Ford truck with two U.S. flags flapping behind as the song “American Ride” by Toby Keith plays.

‘Is it your official campaign position that old Ford pickups are akin to the KKK?’

“Gotta love this American Ride! There’s no better way to do the Woodward Dream Cruise!” Rogers wrote in the social media post.

While most Americans would likely approve of the video, El-Sayed aide Mason Pressler said it reminded him of a racist KKK demonstration.

“Mike Rogers’ campaign has the aesthetics of a 1960s white flight suburb and a