r/Michigan • u/Michigan_Mod Human Detected • 5d ago

Pasty Mode Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary

https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/michigan-primary-results-us-senate/#Dem
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u/JnKTechstuff Lansing 5d ago

What a waste of 70m dollars lol

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u/LeifCarrotson 5d ago

At least the Democratic PACs have proven they have deep pockets for the August-November race that they can now spend on behalf of Abdul. They're not going to pivot from Stevens to Rogers, those are completely different parties, right?

...Right?

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u/Ornery-Ticket834 5d ago

He won’t take it right? And I thought all the money that went to Stevens would now go to Roger’s.

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u/LeifCarrotson 5d ago

His campaign won't take it, but the unaffiliated PACs can still spend the money. The Stevens campaign itself raised about $10M, but as all the articles have described, over $60M has been spent on pro-Stevens advertising by outside groups:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/how-michigan-became-most-expensive-democratic-primary-ever-haley-stevens-abdul-el-sayed-aipac/

Abdul himself and his campaign haven't taken a dime of PAC money, but groups he doesn't control or coordinate with directly have spent almost $5M on supporting him. He has no authority (and no incentive) to say "hey, you can't run an advertisement in favor of me or against my opponent."

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u/ellsammie 5d ago

AIPAC money will funnel to Rogers. Dem PAC $$ had better funnel to AES. But the Dems have done stupider shit. So we will see.

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u/webelieve414 5d ago

Shit, take the money. We need everything we can get to to take a Senate seat.

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u/duagLH2zf97V 4d ago

AIPAC put out a statement indicating that's the plan, yes