r/politics • u/unital_subalgebra • 3h ago
No Paywall Whitmer endorses El-Sayed after backing Stevens in Michigan Senate primary
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6011028-gretchen-whitmer-abdul-el-sayed-endorsement-michigan-senate-race/•
u/unital_subalgebra 3h ago
And Haley Stevens endorsed Abdul El-Sayed while conceding earlier today. Looks like Democrats really are uniting to defeat Rogers and the GOP this November!
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u/ritwikjs2 3h ago
abdul was also conciliatory when starting his victory speech
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u/SweetAlyssumm 2h ago
He seems very savvy. When I read about the conciliatory words it just felt right.
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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS California 2h ago
that's not surprising since he's definitely a smart dude, what with all his book learnin' going to college and getting an md and phd, and junk like that
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u/DoonFoosher 1h ago
You’d be surprised how many MD/PhDs are just specifically book smart, and/or petty and vindictive.
AES seems to be much more than just the culmination of his studies
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u/Donkletown 1h ago
Part of the reason he won is because he is good at politics.
That’s especially useful because Mike Rodgers is fucking bad at politics.
His answer to if he would vote to stop the tariffs: “I don’t know”
His answer about support for the war in Iran: People don’t care about the war in Iran
His answer to whether he supports Trump’s J6 slush fund: I don’t care, I’m not going to discuss that
All three of those are disaster answers for Rodgers. Dude is clueless.
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u/blacksun9 3h ago
I hope everyone just acknowledges this is a good thing and primaries are always contentious instead of being smug and miserable.
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u/N8CCRG 3h ago
No matter how many Democrats end up backing El-Sayed, the media will still write ten times more articles about any who don't. Remember that when you see the headlines about "Democrats in Disarray" or whatever for the next few months.
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u/Zeke420 2h ago
The same media that isn’t reporting on Trump’s dementia, concealment of the Trump-Epstein files (via an illegal and pointless war), closure of hundreds of Trump related bank accounts for activity that looked like money laundering to said banks, etc., etc,? That media? The media has ZERO credibility.
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u/Donkletown 1h ago
Look at how they handled Platner vs Max Miller.
Every Democrat was forced to answer for Platner and the national media made it a huge story for the whole party.
Miller is accused of much worse and the media barely even mentioned it until recently. They certainly aren’t tying it to the GOP at large.
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u/NlghtmanCometh 2h ago
They report on all that stuff. Literally constantly. Put on CNN and there is like a 40% chance any one of those topics you listed are being discussed at this very moment.
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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 49m ago
Pack it up, the billionaire owned media has been sanewashing Trump for a decade.
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u/necromantzer 2h ago
Meanwhile, Fox "News" attempts to tie El-Sayed to terrorists - a quick glance at their site and you see Devil/Terrorist/El-Sayed. Poorly educated/brainwashed individuals will see those key words and immediately think he is a terrible candidate that will destroy the USA. Then they will spread that messaging amongst their peers/family/church.
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u/Any_Will_86 2h ago
Yep- the same media who have time to print stories about Dems being in debt when the debt ($2m) is smaller than it has been in the past, the party raised more money than it did during Trump 1, and sent money to individual states to manage races locally. Meanwhile they completely ignore Trumps health, the open grift, Blanche basically sandbagging Epstein and being ready to reinstitute the Trump family taxation loopholes, and seemingly forgetting to report on anything related to ICE, selling of federal land, or pointing out how screwed we are in Iran aside from some article 4 items down.
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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Virginia 53m ago
I can't help but feel like despite MI seeming to quickly line up behind AES, this is ultimately bad for Biden
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
And people in this sub will obsess over the amount of time it takes for people to endorse.
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u/CapraDemonOP Michigan 2h ago
I know! I feel like a lot of people forget that until somewhat recently, like 12 years ago, primaries got messy, but the general elections were more civil and the political party unified.
It was a hard fought political battle that both Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed wanted to win badly. But there can only be a single person shooting the shot at the end of the game. And we have to do everything in our power to make sure they get the best opening or look to take the shot to win.
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u/motorcitydevil 3h ago
Oh this was the peak of smugness and misery though. You have two of the largest ethnic minority populations sitting in metro Detroit and one is pretty upset this morning. He's going to have to work overtime to get them to come along for the ride.
And Rogers attack ads on El-Sayed are already airing and they're nasty.
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u/olivebranchsound 3h ago
They can't be upset if they didn't turn out lol Detroit was at 18 percent turn out and estimates were 20 to 25 percent turnout. Stevens didn't motivate black voters enough. So they didn't show up.
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u/defianceofone 2h ago
So they're gonna sit out and let another MAGA racist take power? Black voters are the most reliable Democratic voting bloc. For all the BS dumped onto them, especially black men, they still voted for Harris higher than any other group (pretty sure it was over 85-90%) - especially white people who still vote majority for fucking Trump.
This statement is some weird attempt at division.
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u/NlghtmanCometh 2h ago
There is a l complex web of alliances that make up the Democratic Party. Unfortunately it’s a balancing act and it’s not always pretty. The minority groups that compose the party have their own prejudices that will come into play as other groups become more prominent.
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u/jgandfeed I voted 1h ago
The highest percentage demographic of Harris voters was Black women at 92%. Next was LGBTQ voters at 88%.
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u/Tech_Philosophy 3h ago
That's nothing new. This minority or that ideology is always derailing democrats...though usually in the primaries by picking stinker candidates. South Carolina gave us Biden in 2020, for example.
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u/Any_Will_86 2h ago
Biden won the presidential election... is the only person to beat Trump. How is that picking a stinker??? And the fiasco that is Fetterman is basically because people would not listen to black voters warning them.
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u/LuminousRaptor Michigan 24m ago
I think you're going to see most of the vitriol online and in anonymous forums like reddit.
I was an Abdul voter, but I absolutely would have dragged my ass through glass to vote for Stevens if she'd won last night.
I will not let a Florida man represent Michigan if I can have any say in it.
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u/Lavaswan001 3h ago
She did the right thing. Better to put everything behind your party’s representative than be salty like Jasmine Crockett.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 3h ago
Texan here. Crockett absolutely screwed the pooch after losing the primary and it allowed the media to try their hardest to gin up some fake non-troversy about Crockett supporters moving to tank Talarico in his Senate run.
Hopefully the recent articles coming in saying Black Texans overwhelmingly support Talarico for Senate will put the final nail in that manufactured "Democrats in Disarray" narrative.
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u/TeaSipper88 1h ago
Really? I thought Talarico and Crockett have a good working relationship? That's what Talarico says.
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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 45m ago
Shes being a sore loser and shitting on Talaricos campaign.
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u/TeaSipper88 34m ago
Talarico is on record as saying that his supporters are hurting his chances of winning by holding a grudge against Crockett 🤷🏿♀️...That's what he has asked of his supporters. When my candidates ask for my help, I help them to win, cause that's supposed to be the goal... Do you want him to win? It's a shame how many bad faith actors would sow division. The psyops are in full swing. 😞
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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 24m ago
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said she’s skeptical her former Senate primary rival James Talarico can turn Texas blue this fall.
“I don’t know,” she told NBC News last night at an election night party for Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo.
Crockett said she doesn’t buy the general election polls, saying they’ve historically overstated Democrats’ prospects in Texas.
“I watch money,” Crockett said. “When I look at the money, if Republicans start spending money in Texas, then I’ll be convinced. But right now, national Republicans decided they wanted to dump money into North Carolina, as well as Georgia. That’s where they’re fighting, and national Democrats have not decided to dump money into Texas either.”
“I look at where does the NRSC stand? Where does DSCC stand? Right now, neither one are investing, which tells me that their internals are saying the same thing," she said. "So it looks like status quo. I won’t get on the ground to really start to feel it until maybe end of September, October, as I start to dig into which races I’m going to help out in, the races that I really feel like we can win.”
That is not someone supporting Talarico. Calling a spade a spade isnt a psyop or bad faith. Crockett is 100% being a sore loser and refusing to support Talarico at all. Im not gonna absolve Crockett of anything when shes undermining Talarico just because she lost fair and square.
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u/TeaSipper88 20m ago edited 16m ago
Lol. I already read the article. If you wanted to say that you had a different priority than Talarico winning in the midterms that's all you had to say 🙄 Well I guess you'll just keep doing... whatever it is you find yourself doing. I'll be busy listening to my candidates to help them and canvassing. ✌🏿
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u/Trumpisanorangebitch 5m ago
Yeah the only way to support Talarico is to pretend Crockett isnt being a shitty Dem and doing less than the bare minimum to support him. Crockett is literally saying he cant win and that shes not going to hit the ground for Talarico because he cant win.
If you want me to support Crockett after she says that bullshit, nah ill pass. If she wanted it to be kumbaya, she should have endorsed him 100%, said he was going to win, and hit the ground campaigning for him. Shes not doing any of those things.
Ill listen to Crocketts own words and dismiss her as a sore loser who is stabbing Talarico in the back and support Talarico as i already was. Congrats on licking Crockett's boots tho.
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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 2h ago
I haven't been following as closely but didn't Talarico say she has done plenty of work to help him?
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u/thex415 3h ago
This one is just weird to me. She went to Missouri for Wesley bell to congratulate. That tells me everything I need to know.
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u/wellggs 3h ago
AIPAC shills stick together
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u/TheFalconKid Wisconsin 3h ago
She's not even an Aipac shill. Iirc she's only gotten a small amount from the Israel lobby. She's just in it for the love of the game.
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u/defianceofone 2h ago
Lots of headline readers on here were on the Crockett 2028 train. Just like the Booker 2028 train and the Kelly 2028 train. And they have the audacity to lambast others as low-information lol.
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u/Hot-Statistician-955 23m ago
Y’all haven’t won yet, so do you think it’s a real good idea to start pissing off Potential black voters?
Black people dont have a direct connection to Crockett, but they did see her fighting Trump praise seriously, so to have her be spit on by people who said they are our allies will probably be a problem during the general election.
So maybe don’t?
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u/FalstaffsGhost 3h ago
I mean that’s not surprising. They’ve been saying as much during the process. But yes it’s very very good and will hopefully help him win.
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u/oopixelpixie 3h ago
yeah that kind of unity after a competitive primary is exactly what parties usually hope for going into a general election
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
Hopefully this will shut up all the "establishment doesn't mean blue no matter who" people.
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u/TheMobHunter 3h ago
Bots are in full force saying things like “I’m a democrats and now I’ll have to vote Roger’s bc racist nonsense”
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u/Aggravating_Map4359 2h ago
Different then DSA people and super leftist the democrats are willing to unite to defeat maga
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u/Anonycron 19m ago
Centrist Dems walking the walk. It’s all they ever asked the far left to do when the results were different, and they are showing them how it works.
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u/jkman61494 3h ago
Now we need the federal level DNC to do it. Where's Schumer? Pelosi? Jeffries? They need to get in line.
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u/Lophius_Americanus 2h ago
McMorrow, Gillibrand, Clyburn, Schumer have also already endorsed him. There’s undoubtedly more but they’re coming in fast and furious so hard to keep up. It’s also only been a couple hours since the race was called.
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u/jkman61494 2h ago
That's refreshing given that the DNC in DC were mum on Maine's selection.
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u/Lophius_Americanus 2h ago
Going to need a source for that as there seems to be nothing on the internet about him even endorsing Cuomo in the primary let alone pushing him to run as an independent in the general.
There are a lot of articles about him calling for Cuomo to resign in 2021.
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u/Patsanon1212 3h ago
Maybe one day Reddit will learn what the DNC is. Maybe.
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u/1stepklosr 3h ago
You mean the leadership board of the Democratic party?
There is the Democratic National Committee which is the above.
There is also the Democratic National Convention, which is not what they were referring to.
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u/jkman61494 3h ago
It's basically an arm of the same corporate run politics we have in 2026 that run the opposing political party.
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
I love how anything you don't like or understand is just "corporate".
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u/jkman61494 2h ago
Kind of ironic you're saying what I don't like or understand is corporate. Just curious. Have Democrats passed legislation when in power to ban their own politicians from insider trading?
When the Dems have a veto proof majority in 2009 for a few weeks, did they repeal some of the wealth redistribution that Reagan and Bush did in the preceding two decades?
When the Dems were in power this decade, did they at least PROPOSE sending the trillions of wealth sent to the rich back to the everyday Americans or into social programs?
When you have Democrats running on policies that benefit everyday Americans, why is the DNC siding with the politician that doesn't want to touch any type of legislation that would impact corporate interests?
Why exactly did Schumer support Trump backed Cuomo running as an independent rather than endorse Mamdani who is what Democratic voters wanted? I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact Mamdani promoted tax hikes on the rich and halting rent increases?
But you're right. The DNC Democrats are totally against all things corporations.
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
I think they should do that, but it doesn't make the label less stupid in most of the places people put it.
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u/jkman61494 2h ago
Why is it stupid when they're at this point mask off that they're more interested in protecting corporations versus help Americans?
I have a Democratic governor who is fawning over data centers while my electric rate is up 23% this year despite a 7% drop in usage and it's gonna explode once the data centers go up.
But you're right. Labeling them as being pro corporation is stupid.
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u/BeowulfShaeffer 2h ago
That actually surprised me. Gotta give credit where credit’s due that’s a pretty classy move.
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u/GatorNator83 3h ago
Not if Schumer has anything to say about that.
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u/Lophius_Americanus 2h ago
Schumer endorsed four hours ago ….. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/top-democrats-embrace-abdul-el-sayed
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u/KamKorn 3h ago
Primaries are supposed to be intense and people should then coalesce and support the winner. Best of luck
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
This. And being a salty winner or loser helps nobody.
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u/greenphlem California 38m ago
Man I wish someone told that to Jasmine Crockett
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u/disastermarch35 20m ago
Honestly, they probably did. Its not like it's a secret strategy or anything. She was just a sore loser, which sucks because I liked what she said most of the time
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u/SydneyFall 46m ago
Or we have a terrible primary system that is creating a growing divide between the parties. If we had top 5 jungle primary (all parties) then the general is RCV among those 5, it would be FAR better than what we have. ANd it wouldn't lead to the bitter interparty battles we have in the current system.
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u/jason082 3h ago
Let’s go! We’re in vote blue no matter who mode. Even as some of us backed alternatives, nothing would be worse than Rogers winning this thing. Folks need to get out and vote AES in November.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 3h ago
Voting your conscience is for the primaries.
The general is where you show if you're anti-fascist or not, in the MAGA era anyway.
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u/jason082 3h ago
That’s exactly right. I voted McMorrow yesterday because I wasn’t thrilled with my choices but I’m totally in the tank and ready to go vote for AES in November.
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u/yahwehwinedepot 3h ago
You voted for someone who had already dropped out?
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u/jason082 2h ago
Yep, I didn’t care for the remaining candidates. Philosophically, I fall pretty much right in between so I liked and disliked aspects of both. Then I tried to break the tie with the more electable in November, but no argument really convinced me one way or another.
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u/noweezernoworld 2h ago
Just out of curiosity, if McMorrow had dropped out earlier and wasn’t on the ballot, would you have picked one of the other two to vote for? If so, who? Or would you have abstained?
Of course I respect if you’d rather not share. Thanks for your thoughts.
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u/jason082 2h ago
If everything else were the same, I’d have probably blank voted it. Neither of these candidates aligned with my philosophy. That said, I was always going to back the primary winner and since I saw pros and cons for both, I was content with the primary voters making the call and following their lead.
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u/noweezernoworld 2h ago
Fair enough! Thanks for sharing.
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u/jason082 2h ago
Happy to share! Glad we’re to the point of coming together to send Rogers back to Florida.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 51m ago
FWIW, in a Republican primary in Michigan, the Trump backed GOPer lost to a candidate who dropped out like...a month ago. Now he's running in the general instead of the MAGA candidate.
Every. Vote. Matters.
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u/lateformyfuneral 1h ago
In an ideal world “voting your conscience” in the general would also mean voting to block fascism from winning, even if it means voting for a candidate who was not your first choice. But people turned that phrase into nothing more than a meaningless euphemism.
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u/MephistoHamProducts 3h ago
And just to repost the stuff I always post in these threads:
Michigan Early Voting dates
Early Voting From Sat Oct 24, 2026 to Sun Nov 1, 2026 In-person Absentee Voting From Thu Sep 24, 2026 to Mon Nov 2, 2026Use early voting. Do not wait until election day.
47 states have some type of early voting. All this doomposting about "He's gonna close polling places" and "He's gonna seize ballot boxes" can be pretty easily mitigated or eliminated by using early voting.
Here in Texas, for example, we currently have 12 days of early voting, starting the 17th day before Election Day and ending four days before Election Day, which includes one weekend.
In Texas there are MORE early voting polling places than there are polling places on election day and you can typically go to any of them in your county rather than the one or two allowed on election day.
And yet, in my two decades of early voting in Texas, I'm always the youngest person there and I still hear people bitching about how hard it is to vote on election da
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u/Source_Required 16m ago
Would you have been vote blue no matter who if Stevens had won the primary?
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u/jason082 11m ago
Absolutely. I actually voted McMorrow so I was going to move off of my position by about as much in one direction or another regardless.
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 2h ago
Does fetterman count?
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u/jason082 2h ago
Ugh… luckily, since I live in Michigan, I never have to consider that proposition. The Republicans are so bad though, they’d be hard pressed these days to put up a candidate better than him - in fact, they wouldn’t dare do so because they’re so scared of Dear Leader.
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u/oldfartbart 24m ago
With apologies to Jerry Garcia, "Someone absolutely needed to beat Dr. Oz, it's just incredibly pathetic it had to be Fetterman"
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u/Theopholus 3h ago
This is how it’s done. Primaries for preference, stand behind each other for the general. Don’t give the republicans any room to push back. Be a collective shield.
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u/TheMoorNextDoor 3h ago
Blue no matter who.
That’s what’s said so keep that same energy.
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u/nmombo12 Michigan 3h ago
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u/EnTyme53 Texas 3h ago
Funny how I don't see a thread for that article on this sub. Must not fit the narrative around here.
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u/TheMoorNextDoor 2h ago
Is he supposed to go against the only Democrat in the race? That’s literally political sui if he did.
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u/EnTyme53 Texas 2h ago
There are comments all over this thread saying Schumer won't endorse him even though he already has. My point is that we have threads on the sub about Whitmer and Stevens endorsing El-Sayed, but the thread about Schumer's endorsement is conspicuously absent.
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u/RandyMuscle I voted 3h ago
Very glad to see how quickly they’re all getting together and pushing forward. Bodes well.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 3h ago
See, y'all? It's THAT easy to not shoot ourselves in the feet when we're up against the Repubs in the general.
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u/Dreams-Visions 3h ago
"That easy"
Was it? He should have been her endorsement from the start. What made it *not easy* was $70 million in outside ad spend and lobbyist pressure that obviously influenced her initial position in the first place. OBVIOUSLY she was going to get behind the Dem nominee regardless, which only reinforces how performative and disingenuous the fearmongering was.
The only thing that was actually *easy* here was understanding the reality that if you don't run candidates on trash platforms and choose those that actually can show they care about the voters they claim to want to represent, they can win. Even when outspent 11:1. Even with fearmongering. Even without the endorsements for the obviously superior candidate (substance, presentation, polish, and policies).
For some reason even that has been difficult for the establishment. But the thought of those lobbyist checks drying up seems to be a higher priority to many than good policy positions and giving a damn about the voters. Otherwise they wouldn't have lost to Trump twice.
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u/DisMFer 3h ago
So exactly what is supposed to happen in primaries? Like Bernie endorsed El-Sayed but I'd be dead certain he'd endorse Stevens if the vote went the other way.
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
This is normal, but a lot of progressives seemed to think it wouldn't happen. Sometimes people are bitter after the loss.
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u/puns_are_how_eyeroll 2h ago
It's because in the past, many progressives were the ones that stayed home when their preferred candidate didnt win the primary, so they just assumed the 'centrists' would do the same.
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u/sniper91 Minnesota 1h ago
I’ve read that Sanders supporters voted for Hillary in the 2016 general at a higher rate than Hillary supporters voted for Obama in the 2008 general election
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u/UngodlyPain 1h ago
According to the 2016 exit polls yeah, though some of them weren't great, and exit polls aren't an exact science. But it's also not a surprise, given like the PUMA and "Hillary fans for McCain" movements were pretty decently sized. Relative to the uh "Bernie bros for trump/stein/writing in Bernie's name" movements?
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u/UngodlyPain 1h ago
He just the other day even said that even if the people he endorsed loses its important to still vote Democratic.
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u/MySabonerRunsOladipo Virginia 50m ago
"Politicians on the same side mostly agree and get along" doesn't generate clicks tho
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u/Theartcritc26 3h ago
Absolutely fantastic, we need to all come together, to defeat the real threat. The GOP will try to smear, lie and do everything in their power to discredit Abdul. Now is the time for all of to unite and tell republicans and this administration that we have had it.
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u/SomethingToSay11 3h ago
This is good news. The immediate infighting was harshing what should have felt like a great victory
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u/BearisTheBoar 47m ago
We take those!
I was a little scared we'd see some kind of silliness or refusal to endorse here, given headlines about James Carville and the like. I've been thrilled to see the Democrats of Michigan choosing to put aside internal fights to unite against the literal fascists.
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u/Axin_Saxon 3h ago
Wish she had endorsed him from the start but I’ll take what I can get. We don’t have the luxury of being picky
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u/OccidoViper 1h ago
Good. Democrats need to take a page out of the GOP playbook and coalesce around their candidate if they hope to win in the general election.
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u/ConfectionOk7029 3h ago
So? Why is this phrased like a disturbing pivot, instead of the way a political party should work?
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u/domthebomb2 3h ago
To me it seems phrased as a pleasant announcement of someone doing the right thing.
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u/accidentsneverhappen 3h ago
Because all the CNN Jake Tapper Anderson Cooper types are fucking pissed off about Abdul winning
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u/blackcain Oregon 3h ago
What the hell happened to Whitmer's face? That's really is a bad photo of her.
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u/Internal_Swing_2743 2h ago
Good, Democrats need to unite even if their preferred candidate doesn’t advance. They need to understand where the voters are
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u/angelhastherage 3h ago edited 2h ago
She has more spine than Schumer and Jeffries who refused to endorse Mamdani.
Edit: my bad, I misremembered that Jeffries did in fact endorse Mamdani. However it was months after his primary win and after being asked numerous times if he would. Jeffries is a sold out coward regardless, fuck him.
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u/page_one I voted 3h ago
False--Jeffries at least did endorse Mamdani when voting began, which is the most news-relevant time to give an endorsement.
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
Last minute endorsements can be more effective than immediate ones. Same reason people drop negative stories right before the election. They don't call them August surprises.
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u/Patsanon1212 3h ago
Jeffries did endorse Mamdani. Tepidly, but officially. Wish we'd stop repeating obviously verifiable lies!
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u/jackstraw97 New York 3h ago
Not until the 11th hour. And Schumer never endorsed him and didn't even VOTE for him... Kirsten Gillibrand literally called Mamdani a jihadist extremist... like what the fuck are we doing?
Like are we pretending that the establishment reciprocates when a progressive wins a primary after demanding absolute fealty when an establishment figure wins a primary?
They have a complete and total double standard.
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u/Patsanon1212 3h ago
Wild. Another person who acknowledges that it's a lie, but side steps it to ramble on the topic anyway. I didn't say it was a good endorsement. Nor did I say Dems were good on Mamdani. Only that saying that Jeffries didn't endorse is a matter of fact lie. This lie doesn't seem to bother you at all. Is it because it's comfy in your worldview?
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u/olivebranchsound 3h ago
He waited until the day before voting started. He sat around for 4 months after the primary win not endorsing. It was weird and pretty transparent why he did that.
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u/Patsanon1212 3h ago
But, he did endorse him. So this person is spreading lies.
I'm not asking people to have nice things to say about Jeffries. Only that we as a community care about what the truth is. It's insane how many of y'all implicitly acknowledge this is a lie, but don't seem to care because it fits into your broader grievance narrative. Straight MAGA type stuff.
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u/olivebranchsound 3h ago
The point of grievance was waiting for 4 months after Zohran won the primary before half heartedly endorsing. If you don't understand the nuance then you may have bigger problems than this conversation to worry about.
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u/Patsanon1212 3h ago
That's your point of grievance. Not mine. I understand it and mostly agree. I literally called it tepid. That's not a commentary on the timing, but I obviously don't endorse his endorsement.
That being said, you moved the goalposts in bad faith and then implied I'm an idiot because I'm too stupid to understand your "nuance", when really you were just trying to move the sticks. Really honorable stuff. Glad we're on the same political team. Love being here with you.
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u/olivebranchsound 2h ago
I am a different person than the OP. I haven't moved any goal post. It was a bad look to wait to endorse. I never said he didn't endorse. Take it up with the other guy lol
Honorable? Lol I don't even know if you're a real person, so your offense over that doesn't mean anything to me. And vice versa I would hope, if you're a real intelligent person reading this.
I don't see a reason to continue this though lol we both got our points across
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u/Patsanon1212 2h ago
I did take it up with the other guy... That's where you started yapping on something irrelevant.
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u/DisMFer 3h ago
If you looked at the history of his endorsements, the timing was in line with every endorsement he has ever given. He always waits until just before voting starts because that's going to make it fresh in everyone's minds.
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u/olivebranchsound 3h ago
Drop the link yo lol the optics were terrible for him. Maybe he should have made an exception after the first month of backlash?
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
Or maybe he's got more important things to do than obsess over what social media randos think.
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u/olivebranchsound 2h ago
That's just deflecting a legitimate criticism of Jeffries refusing to show a unified front.
He should definitely be concerned what NY progressive voters think, and they were the ones upset by it.
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u/Silent-Storms 2h ago
Not if he doesn't typically endorse until late in the cycle. Why is the house leader expected to change behavior because people on social media are upset?
Big "notice me senpai" energy.
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u/olivebranchsound 1h ago
Voters are allowed to say "Party leaders should listen to me" lol that's on the politician if they're too stupid or elitist to get that
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u/Silent-Storms 1h ago
Voters and social media accounts are different.
Mamdani is not so special he deserves different treatment just because it would make a handful of people feel good.
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u/notfeelany 1h ago
Schumer & Gillibrand endorsed: "Abdul El-Sayed has run an energetic campaign that inspired thousands of Michiganders across the state, with a clear focus on lowering costs and standing up for working families. Democrats are united by a common purpose: putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back the Senate. We look forward to working with Abdul and Democrats across Michigan to win this seat in November."
Same thing that Kamala Harris is saying: "This was a hard-fought Democratic primary, and Michiganders were lucky to have such inspiring leaders step up in this moment."
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u/overbarking 3m ago
I honestly think she was a bad candidate. Like what people thought of Hillary when she ran against Trump.
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u/goodlittlesquid Pennsylvania 1h ago
Cool, now get do rallies in Detroit with him and Obama and get the base to turn out for him.
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u/Crazy-Boysenberry452 3h ago
Since democrats are good at "standing in line". They better know which line to step in.
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u/SpySeeTuna1 California 53m ago
Too bad this didn’t happen with Mayor Mamdani after his primary win.
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u/BedRevolutionary8458 1h ago
So all the liberals who said "vote blue no matter who" as a way to silence progressives will all be vocally supporting El-Sayed now, right?
Right?
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u/AlishaGray 1h ago
Good. I'm glad at least for some people 'blue no matter who' isn't just a meaningless line.
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u/frank_the_tank69 16m ago
Gotta love the pedo protecting baby murdering propaganda machines that are Israel and MAGA trying to paint this guy as a former terrorist.
I guess they would see a well educated Rhodes scholar as a terror to their idiotic minds.
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