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Michigan, Missouri primaries will again lay bare the Democratic divide over Israel
Outside spending tops $30 million as candidates split over whether U.S. aid to Israel should continue, deepening party tensions before the primaries.
- Fiercely contested primaries in Michigan and Missouri on August 4 will serve as crucial tests for the Democratic Party's internal debate over Israel policy.
- Public favorability toward Israel plummeted from 75% in 2021 to 46% in 2026, according to Gallup Organization polling, a 29-percentage point decline comparable to attitudes toward Russia after 2011.
- In Michigan, progressive Abdul El-Sayed denounces Israel as a "rogue state" practicing "genocide and apartheid," while AIPAC's heavy spending for centrist Rep. Haley Stevens has reached nearly $30 million, per AdImpact.
- Missouri's rematch features former Rep. Cori Bush, an Israel critic, facing Wesley Bell, whom she lost to in a 2024 primary; the United Democracy Project spent over $1.5 million supporting Bell.
- Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street says the traditional "Israel right or wrong" consensus has "clearly collapsed," warning that reconciling diverging views may divide Democrats more bitterly than any other issue in coming cycles.
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Having destroyed Graham Platner's candidacy in Maine, the AIPAC-funded Democratic establishment has turned its full attentions to Michigan where it hopes to use Black voters to stop anti-war candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.
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No primary—especially a Senate primary—should go on this long. But Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, having dragged on for months, has turned into an interminably vicious grudge fest—one that’s not likely to subside until voters finally go to the polls on August 4 and choose between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed.But the Michigan primary is also so bitter for the same reason that it has been so interesting. Of all of the 2026 races, this i…
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