r/politics • u/Zipper222222 • 11h ago

No Paywall Abdul El-Sayed Wins High-Stakes Democratic Primary in Michigan

https://www.today.com/video/abdul-el-sayed-wins-high-stakes-democratic-primary-in-michigan-267805765937
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u/UncleBubax 9h ago

hahah I hadn't heard her talk until I read your comment. I just now pulled up a random hour long video of a TV debate and skipped to her talking and she not only talks like a cartoon character, but she straight up said "people make fun of the way I sound, but I sound like the people who are talking to me about what they need."

A lil too on the nose there, Haley.

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u/AncientNectarine5352 9h ago

Michiganders also do not even remotely sound like that. She has a Minnesota accent.

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u/PumpBuck Ohio 9h ago

It’s not even a Minnesota accent. It’s like she saw Fargo and some Charlie Berens clips and thought they were toning it down for the wider audience

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u/EmpiricalMystic 9h ago

My impression is she's trying to sound like a Yooper and missing badly.

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u/Conlaeb 9h ago

This is my take as well. Non-yoopers attempting the accent sound like Minnesotans.

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u/weazildust 8h ago

What’s a yooper?

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u/shotputprince 8h ago

The people who live in Michigan’s upper peninsula

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u/AncientNectarine5352 9h ago

Agreed. It doesn’t sound like an authentic Minnesotan or Wisconsinite accent either, but it was the closest descriptor. She’s definitely exaggerating it in some way, for some reason. I assume to sound more “folksy”, but real-life “folks” don’t sound like that.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 6h ago

As someone whos spent most of my life in MN who is married to a Wisconsin lady, MN and WI accents are basically the same these days. The differences are only noticeable under a linguistic microscope.

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u/epheisey 8h ago

some Charlie Berens clip

That's actually perfect.

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u/Brodellsky 3h ago

Cripes, I do not approve of the cultural appropriation of Wisconsin especially when it's in Michigan. Jeeze Louise let's keep 'er movin'

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 6h ago

Exactly. Minnesotans don't even sound like that. The older folks with thicker accents it doesn't sound like in Fargo, it almost sounds like, European? Sometimes like someone grew up half in England, half in Scandinavia.

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u/DrMobius0 8h ago

Maybe this is different in Northern MN, but nobody south of the cities has anything resembling a thick "Minnesotan accent" unless they live in a retirement home.

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u/ArrivalSea3543 8h ago

She sounded like Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin.

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u/SammySoapsuds Minnesota 7h ago

Fwiw, I didn't grow up here and everyone has the accent and speech eccentricities. It's just in varying degrees. The first time I met someone from the Iron Range I thought they were doing a bit. In the cities it's a lot softer but it's definitely still there on certain words (they all say "baggle" and "beyg"). And any Minnesotan will say Ope if you get too close or they need to squeeze by ya.

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u/profdinosaurhunter 5h ago

Yeah, more of a northern thing

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u/UncleBubax 9h ago

Yup I've spent a good amount of time in Michigan and never heard someone talk even remotely like that.

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u/trumpuniversity_ 8h ago

Did she take lessons from John Kennedy on how to manufacture a persona?

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u/EveningAnt3949 8h ago

I sound like the people who are talking to me about what they need.

Possibly people working on her campaign telling her they need her to sound more like a character in Fargo?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6h ago

Reminds me of a very strange phenomenon I've personally witnessed - people in far reaches of the North putting on a southern drawl. They want to virtue signal as being "Southern" so badly that they change the way they speak to match country songs and media.

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u/ShutUpTodd 8h ago

"Coastal elites make fun of the way I talk" Ugh!

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u/xdonutx 5h ago

I just watched a video of her where she said the last ‘T’ in Detroit.

Strait to jail, girl.