Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing
El-Sayed won by about 1 percentage point after AIPAC and allied groups spent more than $50 million backing Stevens, AP reported.
- Former public health official Abdul El-Sayed secured a narrow victory over Representative Haley Stevens in Michigan's highly contested Democratic U.S. Senate primary.
- Endorsed by prominent figures including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, El-Sayed’s victory is viewed as a significant milestone in the ongoing competition between the Democratic Party's progressive wing and its establishment-backed centrist faction.
- In a primary defined by record outside funding and advertising expenditures, El-Sayed ran a grassroots campaign focused on "Medicare for All" and removing corporate money from politics.
- Competing for the seat being vacated by retiring Senator Gary Peters, El-Sayed will face Republican nominee and former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers in the November general election.
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CBS Barely Challenges ‘Progressive’ Abdul el-Sayed on Hate for Jews, Israel
Screenshot via CBS/Snapstream Beating out ABC and NBC, Wednesday’s CBS Mornings secured a live interview with Michigan Democratic senatorial nominee and “progressive” Abdul el-Sayed that, at nearly six minutes long, largely let the socialist filibuster on his campaign talking points with only one probing question and a brief follow-up about his demands the U.S. cease all foreign aid to Israel, but wasn’t framed as anti-Semitic or anti-Jews.The r…
Michigan Senate Democratic primary race ends with Abdul El-Sayed winning
MICHIGAN, (KLKN) — After a tight, competitive race, Progressive Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Senate Democratic primary. Moderate Rep. Haley Stevens called El-Sayed to concede the race, according to ABC. El-Sayed now faces Republican Rep. Mike Rogers for Michigan Senate. According to ABC, the winner of the election in November could decide which party controls the Senate. El-Sayed said...
El-Sayed decried AIPAC. Now he hopes to win over pro-Israel Democrats.
El-Sayed devoted a chunk of his primary victory speech to promising Michigan’s Jews that he cared about their safety. The post El-Sayed decried AIPAC. Now he hopes to win over pro-Israel Democrats. appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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