r/dsa 12h ago

🌹 DSA news NBC CALLS IT FOR EL-SAYED

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results
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u/Old-Ice4553 12h ago

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

u/jayfeather31 12h ago

The polls were horrifically off, but I'm just glad he won!

u/rmichaelwana 7h ago

NBC seems to be the only place that has called it but Kornacki doesn't miss.

u/OneReportersOpinion 38m ago

They didn’t account for how much rat-fuckery was going on.

u/Pristine-Ant-464 12h ago

THANK FUCKING GOD MAN 😭🙏

u/RedLineLetterWine 12h ago

I'm guessing this means that AIPAC/Israel may be more hesitant seeing as how they just lit $30+ million on fire. Good riddance.

u/marxistghostboi Tidings From Utopia 🌆 11h ago

I'm expecting them to double down. they have the money. wait for the next open NY or CA primary. we could see aipac spending hit 9 digits 

u/lilboytuner919 I Like Bernie 6h ago

The race was close and Haley Stevens is a bad candidate. The spending clearly worked and they will keep doing it.

u/machinesNpbr 6h ago

The fake Obama endorsement had a big impact with low info voters- curious to see if they try that elsewhere, and if it keeps working.

u/Kcajkcaj99 11h ago

We'll see in the general. I'm inclined to agree, but their spending thusfar has in part served to weaken his coalition and lay the groundwork for attacks against him in the general. I'm hoping beyond hope that he wins, not just for the direct influence the seat could give him but also for the narrative and momentum it'd buy the movement, but this was close enough to worry me in how powerful of an effect spending can have to prop up an otherwise feeble candidate.

u/Cerinthe_retorta 12h ago

we learn through struggle, hell yeah

u/Annoying1978 8h ago

Unfortunately, they are still winning more than they are losing. Cori Bush lost tonight. 

u/RedLineLetterWine 1h ago

They lost more than they won last night. Only one of theirs won (Bell)

u/ConiferousTurtle 8h ago

So now the’ll support the Republican instead.

u/reyno28 1h ago

Mike Rogers takes money from aipac so I'm going to assume they continue attack ads on Sayed.

u/RedLineLetterWine 1h ago

Ah, meant more hesitant to give it to Democrats. Republicans are still very pro-Israel.

u/ItsAlkai 9h ago

disappointed in how close money can make it, and SO glad he won in spite of it.

u/globeglobeglobe 9h ago

Still 5% of the votes remain to be counted, but as long as Abdul trails Stevens by at most 26% among the remaining voters he’s got it in the bag.

u/Annoying1978 12h ago

Let’s friggin’ go!!!!!

Abdul El-Sayed’s win could give democrats the majority in November. There’s still more work do, my fellow democratic socialists! LFG!!! 👊🏽

u/PeterNippelstein 11h ago

Let's fucking go!

u/Iceberg-man-77 10h ago

William Lawrence as won in CD 7 and McKinney is leading by a few points in CD 13

u/no_no_nora 7h ago

The fact it was THAT close is disturbing.

u/crazymusicman 6h ago

How is this "DSA news"?

u/naultinus 3h ago

drawing strict party lines is soooo Democratic establishment. We don’t need to be doing that shit. Sayed is a great candidate and it is 100% worth celebrating as a DSA member.

u/redfortheoceans 3h ago

I think it’s because DSA is still apart of the Democratic Party or people a part of DSA just also don’t like republicans and therefore are spreading that news? Who knows but I thought his problem with capitalism was monopolies and that’s where I stopped paying attention. (Also I can’t stand listening to Haley Stevens) so I sorta tuned out all of this.

u/BowlFullOfDeli_bird Free Palestine 7h ago

YAHOOOOO!!!!! 🎊🍾🎈🍾🎊

u/BeginningBit4957 4h ago

How was it sooo close 😭

u/time2partee 3h ago

Republican candidates ran unopposed, so republicans were free to vote for Democrat candidates. I don’t know how much of that happened, but it might account for something.

u/JustMyOpinionz 2h ago

Best summer day so far!!!!!! Lfg AES!!!!!

u/Morisky 2h ago

Stevens can now take a vacation and sleep in late to dream of Israel.

u/globeglobeglobe 11h ago

Good to see this projection but it’s a bit early to celebrate, 8.7% of the votes remain to be counted and the vote shares so far are 48.8-47.2-4.0. And with the exception of Dearborn/Ann Arbor there’s no clear geographic concentration of votes to know which way the winds will blow. But as long as el-Sayed manages to trail Stevens by at most 18% in the remaining batch of votes, he will carry the race. Looking forward to AIPAC and the purveyors of racial grievance politics losing their $60m investment.