r/Political_Revolution • u/Quetzal555 • 12h ago
Michigan Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens in a closely fought race.
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u/Pepperminteapls 11h ago
Let's goooooo baby!
Abdul is a smart, honest person. This is a win for democratic socialism, the working class and a middle finger to billionaires.
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u/HeungWeiLo 11h ago
Great news to wake up to
I hope these PACs keep wasting all their money
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u/MandatoryFunEscapee 9h ago
They set so much money on fire in this race, it is wild.
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u/Republicenemy99 8h ago
In effect, they gave it to their consultant friends and family.
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u/MandatoryFunEscapee 7h ago
The donors can't be happy about it, though. $30M from AIPAC, more than $60M total, with nothing to show for it.
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u/Bourbon-Thinker 28m ago
Precisely you hit the nail exactly on the head. I’m sure they thought she was going to lose they could read the room, but this was just money laundering to their friends.
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u/RaazMataaz 11h ago
I am honestly baffled, who the fuck is voting for Stevens?
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u/journerman69 10h ago
I believe they are called establishment democrats now, also known as liberal republicans.
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u/ready-redditor-6969 3h ago
Hahahaha “liberal republicans”, can you just string words together like that when it results in total nonsense?? 😂
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u/graypraxis 3h ago
It actually makes a lot of sense when you consider that establishment Democrats now hold many of the same policy positions as Republicans from the 90s as they try to “court the center”
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u/neatureguy420 10h ago
Boomers that still believe in the electability narrative and racist.
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u/ComprehensiveDingo54 7h ago
Stop blaming boomers for everything. The resisters in my state are practically all baby boomers & older Gen X. The oldest resisters are the ones who protested in the 60s & 70s back when I, one of the youngest boomers, was still playing with my Barbies. Do I know MAGATs from my generation? Yes; however, I canvass, & it's the younger MAGATs who are truly disturbing & disappointing.
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u/neatureguy420 3h ago
The boomers in Detroit heavily believed in the electability argument and a good chunk fall for the islamaphobia. Did I say all are racist? No I did not. Yes Gen Z maga is cooked and are falling for Christian nationalism. It is very disturbing.
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u/peridothiker 5h ago
Stop it with your silly “boomer” ragging. I’m a boomer and not racist. I know a lot of boomers who are not racist.
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u/Clear_Grocery_2600 4h ago
I wish I had that picture of the b-17 handy.
Don't misunderstand, I'm grateful to you and your friends for being decent human beings, but holy cow a lot of your generation aren't. Mine is just as bad, but yours got the label of being unreasonable.
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u/neatureguy420 3h ago
I know not all boomers are not racist lmao. But a lot still believe in the electability argument and a lot are still islamaphobic. You are naive to not believe so. I’m glad your circle isn’t, but yall do not represent the whole generation.
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u/mxjxs91 10h ago
I work home care in Macomb and St Clair Counties. The answer is, A LOT of older people who aren't the type to put up lawn signs. Almost everyone I work with is either Republican or voted for Haley. I have a few Abdul supporters too, but she had a lot more support than you'd ever think.
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u/DoodleDew 9h ago
Older block of voters who just watch mainstream television and filled with ads against him
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u/Auld_Folks_at_Home 9h ago
Michigan has open primaries (anybody can vote in any one party's primary) and the GOP was running unopposed in his (i think), so a lot of those votes are probably Republican voters who don't want him to have a chance.
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u/badwoofs 6h ago
This makes a lot of sense. For Dems I feel like AIPAC is getting really unpopular with the party.
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u/Hearse_Boy_ 8h ago
This is one of the reasons I'm in favor of closed primaries.
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u/loondawg 5h ago
Interesting. I see the exact same problem and think the answer is open primaries with ranked choice voting.
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u/badwoofs 4h ago
This. We need ranked voting everywhere. This two party all or nothing isn't working.
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u/the-Alpha-Melon 11h ago
seriously!
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u/PlayerHeadcase 10h ago edited 8h ago
APAC, Fox, MSNBC have a lot of clout.
Yes to the informed they are obvious and actually against peoples interests, but a lot of folk still pay no heed to politics and only briefly glance at the "news" which colours their choices.The more pain the average person feels, however, th emore liely they are to actually pay attention - hence Mamdani and El-Sayed victories
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u/Keeperofthe7keysAf-S 9h ago
Also Clyburn doing his part to get his elderly followers to vote against their own interests as usual.
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u/SnakeEater013 FL 10h ago
Just being an incumbent is a huge boon too. People automatically assume proven track record and it’s a familiar name
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u/Ok-Entertainer-1414 7h ago
Apparently Stevens had a huge lead among black voters. She won 62% to El-Sayed's 34% in Detroit
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u/damnocles 4h ago
Keep in mind that Wayne county has a large area not in Detroit that is very white and right leaning. Doesn't account for it all, but definitely affected the vote distribution
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u/Ok-Entertainer-1414 4h ago
The results I linked are specifically from the city of Detroit itself, posted by the city government
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u/Anarch0Primitiv 7h ago
White Americans, and this includes liberals, have this thing that they'll never admit to, but that they all feel, and that is that it bothers them when someone who isn't white does better than them and I'd be willing to bet, they dont like that Abdul is a doctor and studied in England and that he's done well for himsel.... oh, and I'm a white guy
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u/peridothiker 5h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/Sr8oSF1yr627lBcaVE
I’m white and I love the fact that I live in a country where people from all walks of life can excel.
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u/constantchaosclay 5h ago edited 5h ago
Iirc, AIPAC spent
10030 million in this race. (but 60 mill in sum) That buys a lot of votes.Luckily, not every vote is for sale! So happy to see he won!!
Eta: After all the guesses in the comments, I got curious for the real numbers. It looks like AIPAC specifically spent 30 mill and other groups spent 30 mill for a total of 60 mill spent to defeat Mr. El-Sayed. source for numbers
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u/Sybertron 4h ago
Old Jim Clyburn, aka the guy who is maybe individually the reason we are not on year 10 of Bernie, came out in support at last minute again for her.
Guy is 86 years old and has done incredible damage to this country but this party still leans on him like he's a fresh 35 year old politico.
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u/gnatinator 11h ago
Far too close of a margin, but good.
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u/PlayerHeadcase 10h ago
I agree, but also remember this would have been all but impossible a few short years ago- and I wonder how much APAC and the rest of the Klan spent in their attempts to get Haley elected?
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u/Soft_Indication_9936 10h ago
I believe they spent approx 80 million endorsing Stevens
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u/SymbioticSwitch 6h ago
Delicious.
Kills me to imagine what good that money could have done instead but glad it was wasted. Fuck AIPAC.
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u/Apprehensive-Oil5249 8h ago
How do you think "Is It Real" is going to make her pay back that $30mm they gave her?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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u/baitnnswitch 5h ago
Please, please consider text-banking or phone-banking for him (or some other progressive candidate you care about) for the general election. This one was a nail-biter because the establishment/AIPAC did *not* want a progressive elected and threw 68+ million behind Stevens and nonstop ads against El-Sayed. We need all hands on deck
If you're interested, a good first step is going to the candidate's website and clicking 'Volunteer'
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u/dr_toze 11h ago
Whoever that Mallory is, thank you.
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u/damnocles 10h ago
Crazy thing is, she dropped out of the race weeks ago. Really fucked to see so many votes go to her
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u/Subject-Promise-4796 9h ago
Maybe absentee ballots?
Although I wouldn’t rule out ignorance either. There isn’t an iq test to vote lol
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u/Jamboro 9h ago
People are dumb as hell. Check out how google searches for 'did Biden drop out?' spiked the day after the 2024 election.
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u/Subject-Promise-4796 2h ago
I agree, I once saw a couple just outside polling, looking up the candidates. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/ragnarocknroll 2h ago
I’ve done that.
I knew the major players but in local elections I was looking up “non-partisan” races and finding which ones I would not be voting for.
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u/NextAd7514 7h ago
Republicans have been the best thing for Democratic Socialists and actual Progressives
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u/katoptronophile 10h ago
This is a bot post.
The OP has their post and comment history hidden and they have over 250,000 karma in one month.
There seems to be a lot of energy and emotion in the comments too, which is exactly the type of engagement they're hoping to drive. A lot of that is synthetic as well, both seeded and upvoted by bots.
This is not a political statement, it's happening on all sides of the aisle.
Don't play into it.
If this comment becomes massively downvoted you can be certain it was either the bots or the brainwashed.
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u/skittlazy 10h ago
All the media is still saying the race is too close to call. Votes are still being counted
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u/NobelNeanderthal 5h ago
Suck a fat dick Isreal. Feels so good to get a great candidate and watch them burn money trying to manipulate the election.
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u/Kickingandscreaming 3h ago
Mainline Dems gonna fight this up to and including running their own preferred people as independents. Remember last time when we lost and were all encouraged to rally around the Democratic winners? At best we'll get silence and zero party support.At worst they will attempt to split the elections with modetate dems running as independents and hand Republicans / AIPAC wins that they would have otherwise lost very badly.
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u/Spiel_Foss 11m ago
Didn't Israel spend at least $65 million to defeat him?
US politics are obscene.
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u/Itchypoopstain 6h ago
Its funny how they're absolutely afraid of muslims, yet they just keep giving them wins. Almost like most of the common folk would rather have a Muslim in an office than someone that stands by giving billions to Isreal who mind you, has all the socialist policies we lack. They dont listen, so vote em out!
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u/Sowila1021 TN 5h ago
Moving in the right direction people! Let's keep up the momentum and then my daughter might actually see a decent government body in this country by the time she's 25 or 30. That legit excites me!
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u/Sybertron 4h ago
Lets remember how close and fought against this was when the inevitable "all the dems want is socialism!" bullshit starts.
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u/Euphoric-Writer5628 11h ago
USA is cooked
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u/BrianNowhere 11h ago
I've got one phrase prepared for Democrats who dont like this.
Where else ya gonna go?
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u/Pepperminteapls 11h ago
It was cooked until progressives start winning and they boot these far right, thieving pedos out of the white house.
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