electoralism

Americans are such racist, cringe loving scum, this should've been an easy blowout, 65% at the least, not some ravor-thin slugfest

A woman clearly putting on an insulting fake accent screaming about how "Israel comes to me in my dreeeaamms!!" openly paid millions by AIPAC and half the state was like "hell yeah she's cool"

Race and identity are everything in America, this election proves it, Sayed literally DID AND SAID EVERYTHING class reductionists claimed a candidate should if they wanted a plurality of support, the perfect model minioirty campagin with no gaffes or flups, but here he is winning based on a margin of thousands in a state of 10 million

A candidate who explicitly ran an anti-identity politics campaign (that I too thought was the smart move) has won, but lost the political mandate and momentum that a blowout would've given him, which is something Republicans will hone in on during the state general

$60m in political ad-spend is a fkn terrifying weapon.

Also, good luck fundraising that forever as more anti-Israel candidates pop up all across the country. El-Sayed is going to be a household name by September.

On the call, audio of which leaked to NBC News and others, El-Sayed said a victory for him in Michigan could reverberate into 2028 and encourage primary challengers against the likes of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who has fallen out of favor with the left. He characterized such a move as putting “an ogre on a pike” — rhetoric that some Democrats believed was targeted at Stevens, though El-Sayed had described Fetterman as an “ogre” in the past.

Dirty by NBC News, he was clearly referring to Fetterman and Stevens was corrected on this live on local TV by a debate moderator!

95% reporting margin is quite small. Like 1.4% not over till it's over and I'd imagine there will be challenges. Approxamately 1.5 Million voted in tbe Dem primary. Population of Michigan is about 10 Million.

Fake Yooper accent did not help Stevens in Da UP.

This is close. Less than 20k votes. What is funny is Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out, has 60k votes. Ones that more likely would have gone to Stevens.

Edit - Stevens closes gap to 1.2%

I think people are missing that Michigan has open primaries and no party registration, and at least in my district you didn’t even have to tell the poll worker if you wanted a Democrat or Republican ballot. The ballot had both the Democrat and Republican candidates on it, and you were only allowed to fill in one column (or it spoiled your ballot).

Most of the republican candidates were running unopposed or effectively so, so there wasn’t much reason for anyone to vote in the Republican column. The Democratic primary polls were of "Democrats," though, which probably explains most of the discrepancy between the polling and the results.

A concession came to Haley Stevens in her dreams.

I love Michigan and am so proud to have put up my hand to serve. I spoke with Abdul a few moments ago to offer him my full support as we work to defeat Mike Rogers this November. Thank you, Michigan.

Edit -

Reading the comments are many "I voted for you, but now I'm voting for the Republican." When a chief charge from Stevens was that Republicans are backing El-Sayed.
With fascists, every accusation is a confession

Good news, albeit unsurprisingly close due predictably frustrating detroit results. Wish they could have found somebody to contest the governors race too though. Could have made it a data center referendum and probably won handily. People hate that shit and Benson is literally married to the industry.

It came to me in my dreams last night that he won 57.6% of the vote.

Happy for Actually Existing Socialism receives a whisper from a handler oh, sorry, happy for Abdul El-Sayed.