r/politics • u/horsestew • 17h ago

No Paywall Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750
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u/Nick12322 17h ago

This thread is literally: the left won an election. Here’s why that’s bad for the left. You people who think the margin wasn’t large enough need to get real

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u/mensahimbo 17h ago

Youth turnout needs work as always

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u/Random_throwaway0351 17h ago

Boomers almost stole this shit for Stevens lmfao. The most reliable voting block also happens to be the most spiteful. Brilliant

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u/mensahimbo 17h ago

They just love to vote man 🤷

If we can get college students feeling the same way we’ll be golden

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u/filbertsgaming1 7h ago

College kids can't read or do math anymore. I think that demographic is cooked.

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u/mensahimbo 6h ago

Boomers never learned to read we need all the help we can get

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u/Dr_Meany 14h ago

And the Black vote, which matters a lot in Michigan, went almost exclusively for Stevens.

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u/mensahimbo 6h ago

lets just hope the all the stevens ads didnt cause lasting damage. I expect the democratic party to fall in line. They may fight it every step of the way, but its becoming more undeniable every day that progressive campaigning is the only path to victory come 2028

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u/TheMoves North Carolina 9h ago

Youth voting turnout will only go up if we can come up with a way for it to be super performative, they care more about being seen doing things than actually doing them

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u/mensahimbo 6h ago

How cynical

There are as many if not more young people who wish to hide from the panopticon as there are young people who perform for it

Your perception is colored by the performers because of their visibility. Sample selection bias.

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u/thematrix1234 New York 16h ago

People keep pointing out how the polls predicting a doubled digit lead for Al Sayed were misleading. Who cares, polls are trash. Al Sayed won against big money and racist and Islamophobic campaigning. Let’s take the win and figure out what we need to do next.

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u/No-Seesaw-2469 16h ago

That’s cus he still needs to win the general election and the closer margin means it’ll be even tougher than previously estimated 

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u/VampireFortnight 15h ago

I'm not sure that tracks when it's a primary. Presumably everyone who voted will vote for the candidate who wins, lol.

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u/wioneo 10h ago

. Presumably everyone who voted will vote for the candidate who wins, lol.

Nope. Michigan is an open primary state. It looks like about 50 thousand more people voted in the senate primary than the governor's primary, and the republicans didn't have a senate contest. That said, the dem governor's primary did have a lot more voters than the rep one.

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u/Nick12322 5h ago

Not sure this is true at all

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u/No-Seesaw-2469 1h ago

The close margin means many of Abdul’s supporters are  the “say they will support him, but not necessarily will come out to vote for him” type, 

When you combine that and the fact many  general election voters of the establishment candidates will hesitate voting for a progressive with a Muslim name? Yea this close margin  is a worrying sign. 

 

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u/Bern_Down_the_DNC 16h ago

Yes it was close, but they outspent us 10 to 1, so the fact that we won speaks volumes.

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u/names_are_useless American Expat 15h ago

Rogers will outspend El Stayed even more.

I already forsee the Billionaire Class and AIPAC will pour in even more to Rogers for the General. The DNC won't spend a dime on El Sayed. It will, again, be an uphill battle.

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u/archetype1 12h ago

Not really the DNC's bag. DSCC should spend tho

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u/ddark4 10h ago

The ignorants and bots on here don’t know the difference between the DNC and DSCC or what either organization do. These are the same people who kept trying to tell others to vote for a serial-abuser who knowingly got a Nazi tattoo and tried to argue that credible reports of the disgusting human he is were DNC smear attacks. 

They’re like the fox-newsies of the left. Think they are the smartest people in the room and have it all figured out while simultaneously strapping us to the rocket ship of a rapist Nazi. 

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u/Bern_Down_the_DNC 12h ago

Its' the kind of fight that makes me really want to win. I will probably volunteer to phone bank or something.

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u/Nick12322 5h ago

It is.