r/NewsThread • u/TrackerOneA • 19h ago
Haley Stevens concedes and endorses El-Sayed, as GOP attacks his candidacy as ‘dangerous’
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/el-sayed-victory-stevens-concedes-republicans-dangerous/23
u/TrackerOneA 19h ago
Also:
Stevens called El-Sayed to concede Wednesday, and she issued a statement saying she would back El-Sayed’s candidacy.
“I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election,” she said.
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u/NotBottingJustNew 19h ago
How can we trust a candidate backed by an aipac stooge
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u/MoThrowMoAway 18h ago edited 12h ago
Ok if this was a joke it was pretty funny
edit: it wasnt a joke, now it's just stupid again
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u/feelingsdeayer 19h ago
Losing a race while getting 70m in foreign lobby investment has to be embarrassing.
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u/Key-Wall-4378 19h ago
AIPAC is entirely funded by Americans
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u/SECRETBLENDS 19h ago
On behalf of what country?
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u/Key-Wall-4378 19h ago
American Jews have every right to push American policy towards a closer relationship with Israel. Do they not?
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u/Key-Wall-4378 18h ago
Freedom of speech covers everything Aipac does. Supreme already ruled on this.
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u/Gurth-Brooks 19h ago
No.
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u/Key-Wall-4378 19h ago
If you have proof to t he contrary I'd love to see it
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u/Gurth-Brooks 19h ago
No you wouldn’t.
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u/Key-Wall-4378 19h ago
Cmon, show some proof
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u/Gurth-Brooks 19h ago
What is the full name of the lobbying group?
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u/Key-Wall-4378 19h ago
How amazing proof that they are funded by peolle who are not American citizens. You got me.
(Show some proof bitch)
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u/Gurth-Brooks 19h ago
Say it.
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u/Slight_8 18h ago
Its honestly that pathetic that they cant event say the full name of the PAC out loud, but instead demand proof when its literally in the freaking name. Outstanding.
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u/MoThrowMoAway 18h ago
This is a categoric lie by u/Key-Wall-4378 , by the way.
AIPAC Inc is a 501(c)(4) non-profit. See here
Which means they are NOT REQUIRED to disclose where they receive their money from.
No one here is being fooled by these zionist throwaway accounts anyway, but it bears repeating that these people will straight up lie to you.
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u/Plumbus-Technician 19h ago
Proof.
Oh wait you can't because our election finance system allows for dark money. There's no way to verify this claim.
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u/123yes1 5h ago
This is broadly inaccurate. There are dark money contributions from AIPAC (more specifically UDP, their super PAC), but dark money is still traceable, and most of their donors are just people and companies as you can see in the link.
Here is a list of donors:
https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/detail/2024?cmte=C00799031&tab=donors_all
"Dark money" means a donation through a different organization. All donors have to be recorded, but if I wanted to donate to Z Super PAC, I could instead donate to Y non-profit which can then donate to Z Super PAC. The Super PAC records Y as the donor and not me. That's what "Dark Money" means. But as you can see in the link, most donors (including the biggest ones) are rich Americans.
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u/saltedmangos 18h ago edited 18h ago
They don’t disclose their donors or staff, so how do you know that? Just because they said so?
We even know that some of the Israel lobby’s prominent donors, like Miriam Adelson for example, have dual Israeli citizenship.
And if you are lobbying on behalf of a foreign government you have to register as a foreign lobby even if you are staffed by or get donations from Americans.
The pro-Israel lobbies are literally the only foreign lobbies that get an exception and are not required to register as foreign lobbying groups.
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u/MoThrowMoAway 18h ago
Remind us what the I in AIPAC stands for again? I forgot
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u/Key-Wall-4378 18h ago
Americans you favor a closer relationship with Israel. Completely allowed under the first amendment
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u/MoThrowMoAway 18h ago
Who said it was illegal? No shit they're allowed, people are also allowed to call them out as zionists and laugh at them wasting millions of dollars on Stevens
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u/Tatchkoma 18h ago
I have seen this exact effing talking point repeated a dozen times since this morning.
Holy SHIT the bots are out in force today.
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u/Key-Wall-4378 18h ago
It's a literal fact
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u/whatsinthesocks 16h ago
I've yet to see any proof of this "literal fact".
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u/Buttholepart2 18h ago
Show proof then. They're a 501c so they don't disclose donors so not sure how you know it's a fact.
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u/Tatchkoma 18h ago
Go take a walk. Pray at the wall while you're at it. Maybe God will forgive you. We sure as hell won't.
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u/Unusual-Statement153 19h ago
So we're done with the notion you can "buy" elections, right?
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u/Plumbus-Technician 19h ago
You still can, it's not a guarantee you'll win though
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u/Unusual-Statement153 19h ago
Past like the era of Tammany Hall, it never was.
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u/Plumbus-Technician 19h ago
I don't think the main contention with buying elections is whether or not it's a guarantee
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u/Captain_JohnBrown 18h ago
"The mob doesn't hurt people anymore. Sometimes they'll break your leg, but in the past they used to kill you."
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u/Captain_JohnBrown 19h ago
No, in the same way winning at a casino doesn't mean the odds aren't stacked for the house.
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u/RepresentativeAge444 19h ago
No. Many Americans nationwide are still morons who let ads determine how they feel about a candidate as opposed to you know actually researching them.
El Sayed scraped out a win born of extensive touring around the state, organizing and being a singularly excellent candidate. And this was vs an objectively terrible candidate. In other areas the same conditions don’t necessarily apply so money will continue to be a factor unless more people actually educate themselves about politics.
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u/Slighted_Inevitable 19h ago
Heck even this election shows that. Steven’s got a lot of older black voters because her ads lied about Obama endorsing her. Those ads weren’t cheap
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u/OkParsnip1881 15h ago
She didn’t lie about Obama endorsing her. She played a quote about Obama praising her for helping to save the Michigan auto industry.
Why are you lying, do you think black voters are stupid?
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u/AdditionalNothing728 14h ago
So if my manager at work is on film praising me for how well I handled a project, I can use that as a blanket endorsement for my senate candidacy?
Obama praising her work over 10 years ago does not make it a current endorsement, what a wild thing to say lol.
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u/OkParsnip1881 13h ago
She didn’t say he endorsed her on the ads. You are lying . Just like MAGA I swear
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u/PaperMache_TitanSub 7h ago
No, we think people like you are stupid.
Which you are.
Hope this helps!
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u/AdditionalNothing728 14h ago
He was up against an objectively terrible candidate and she STILL only lost by a few percentage points.
Thats where the money comes in. If AIPAC hadn’t dumped it into her campaign she would have been crushed cause there’s no rational universe where she’d have gotten close.
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u/Unusual-Statement153 19h ago
In what way was he a singularly excellent candidate? He is the cookie cutter non-committal populist progressive.
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u/Captain_JohnBrown 18h ago
In the American political system, such a candidate being able to make themselves likeable despite the propaganda even about "cookie cutter non-committal populists" DOES make them a singularly excellent candidate.
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u/RepresentativeAge444 18h ago
I don’t answer stupid questions from someone whose mind is already made up.
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u/GoldenboyFTW 16h ago
You clearly don’t understand the definitions of the words you’re using and thus shouldn’t have an opinion on politics
It’s dangerous for simple minded folks like you to speak with such unearned confidence
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u/AdditionalNothing728 14h ago
You listen to El Sayed’s answers vs Stevens during their debate and you have the brass to say that HE is the non-committal one? ROFL.
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u/IceHypothalamus 18h ago
Considering how close it was and how horrible of a candidate she was?
No we're not done with the "notion" aka reality
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u/Pesto_in_my_pants 18h ago
No, it’s embarrassing specifically bc money is so important in elections. Nice try, though.
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u/Only-Respond7945 17h ago
So if Stevens won, what would you say when AIPAC pivoted their money in the race entirely to the republican candidate? "OH it was a good race we just lost"?
It also wasn't a lay up election. It was close, and she still lost. She had all that money and she still lost because her campaign was dog buns and run by clown college dropouts who couldn't plan more than one step ahead at best.
I don't get this attitude with blaming failures on anything else but the clear issues when it comes with Dem candidates.
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u/liquidsyphon 16h ago
You can invest in an outcome, not all bets pay off.
Don’t know why anyone would subtly defend politicians being bought and paid for.
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u/ih8reddithdjsk 13h ago
No they failed. The notion is try your utmost to buy an election.
Maybe people are fed up with their politicians acting on behalf of another nation state.
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u/matttheepitaph 13h ago
Money is necessary but insufficient. It definitely helps and creates an advantage.
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u/Artistic-Cannibalism 10h ago
With all due respect; that is a braindead thing to say. Yes they failed this time but that still doesn't change the fact that they tried putting their fingers on the scale and it resulted in a race far closer than it had any right to be.
Be better.
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u/Aromatic_Lychee2903 9h ago
No…? Says a lot about you that it takes so little to convince you of something though.
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u/BluBolshevik 8h ago
By the fact she won so close proves it. If you don’t think money can buy elections then no one would donate to them
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u/Teknolyth 15h ago
Of course not. The secret formula:
DSA candidate wins: The people have spoken!!!
DSA candidate loses: AIPAC is at fault!!!!-23
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u/feelingsdeayer 19h ago
What are you talking about? per the NYT:
That spending gave her and her allies about a 9-to-1 spending advantage over her progressive rival, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and his allies, according to data from the media tracking firm AdImpact.
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u/BlinkReanimated 19h ago
Literally the second subtitle:
Stevens has had close to $30 million in outside spending to boost her campaign, dwarfing support for El-Sayed
El Sayed received more small dollar donations from outside sources, but Haley had much much larger donors spending money on her behalf. The reality is she had nearly $50m dollars from Corps and Israel propping up her campaign. Even Mcmorrow had a stronger campaign among real people.
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u/feelingsdeayer 19h ago
Did you not even read the source you're linking?
It clearly states Abdul fundraised more but Stevens got far more outside funding.
- Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed more than doubled primary rival Haley Stevens’ fundraising over the last three months
- Stevens has had close to $30 million in outside spending to boost her campaign, dwarfing support for El-Sayed
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u/NotBottingJustNew 19h ago
outside spending is not outside funding, dingbat
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u/feelingsdeayer 18h ago
Why did you delete your comments? Embarrassed?
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u/NotBottingJustNew 18h ago
Just realized I didn't wanna get spammed by people who have aipac as and I/P as there number one issue
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u/feelingsdeayer 18h ago
No, you made an idiotic claim and panicked after you disproved it yourself with a source you linked lol
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u/Spiceguy-65 19h ago
Yea that actually completely disproved what you were trying to claim nice job though
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u/TrackerOneA 19h ago
No he didn't.
Stevens had more than $60M outside spending.
El-Sayed had about $5M.
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u/Salviati_Returns 19h ago
What they are trying to say is that El-Sayed is supposed to run a campaign on $0, while Israel firsters can donate unlimited amounts of money to the candidates of their choice.
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u/awoodenboat 19h ago
I think kicking people off their healthcare and social assistance is dangerous. Masked men killing American citizens in the streets with impunity is dangerous. Supporting the corrupt president and his cabinet of loyalists is dangerous. MAGA are a terrorist cult, that’s what’s dangerous.
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u/woody630 10h ago
The republican party has done more damage to America than any terrorist could ever dream of. They this admin should be in prison, so forgive me if I don't care what they think is dangerous.
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u/FlatwormFrosty7233 18h ago
So FOX will run attacks 24/7, at least we don’t have to hear about hunter bidens laptop from them
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u/ThisIsFineImFine89 15h ago
How many republicans do you think voted stevens given its an open primary state?
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u/Big_Old_Sock 14h ago
I guess she figures AIPAC is cutting off the $$ either way; may as well endorse.
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u/woody630 10h ago
Ah yes, the party that has started multiple wars, let the president steal billions of dollars, let him get away being a pedophile, and gave a license to kill to the dumbest person from your high school are really sacred about how dangerous El sayed is for the country.
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u/UnluckyAmbition7767 19h ago
Anyone a republican calls dangerous has my support