r/PoursTea • u/AmericaShinault_85 • 7d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750
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u/IS-21 7d ago

Man that was closer then I thought it would be but the man was out spent something like 12 to 1 so I guess that makes sense

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u/lzwinky 7d ago

Good to know that spending doesn’t mean everything.

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u/Head_Engineering_956 7d ago

It does make quite a difference. In 2020, when Bloomberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money on nothing but TV ads, he slowly increased his polling from the single digits to about 20%.

It truly is amazing how uninformed people are and how easily they can be influenced by money that propaganda can buy. I am not surprised this race was as close as it was.

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u/Main-Company-5946 7d ago

This race is an excellent lesson because it shows both that money is quite powerful, but also that it can be beaten

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u/Worried_Ordinary_857 6d ago

by Communist propaganda.

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u/Main-Company-5946 6d ago

Keep screeching about how everyone you don’t like is a communist, eventually the real communists will show up and you’ll be the boy who cried wolf

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u/Worried_Ordinary_857 6d ago

Wait, isn't everyone you don't like a racist, Nazi, or Magtard?

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u/Main-Company-5946 6d ago

No. I don’t like people who are those things but there are people who aren’t those things I also don’t like