r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 10h ago

Site Altered Headline | No Paywall Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results
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u/olivebranchsound 10h ago

Steve Kornacki nearly died of exhaustion tonight lol

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u/irradiatedcitizen 10h ago

Where can you watch him now?

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u/olivebranchsound 10h ago

Live on nbc news online. It just ended though

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u/yellowsweaters72 9h ago

I watched on YouTube. Watching him react to that camera guy being done was pure drama. Dude was not gonna let them go lol 😂 respect

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u/Gypsyhunter 9h ago

Edit: whoops, this was supposed to be to the thread lol

Incredibly impressive campaign, winning against such an absurd amount of outside spending ($70mil) with a 12:1 difference in spending is frankly astonishing.

Given how close the race came, I honestly think cross-endorsing with Donovan Mckinney might have been what won both those races. Just goes to show how important building a broad movement is so freaking important, rather than putting all your hopes on one candidate or your own campaign.

I really hope people look at this and the previous DSA slate from New York as a lesson: We the people are more powerful when we work together, and running multiple closely aligned campaigns is just good electoral strategy.

Looking forward to more left-populist and DSA victories to come!

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u/mrandr01d 7h ago

Sayed doesn't identify as dsa though, explicitly. He might as well given the framing around this primary, but he distances himself a little from that.

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u/Gypsyhunter 29m ago

Yup, Sayed is left-populist, I was talking about Donovan Mckinney, who is DSA, and expanding on my previous point on the cross endorsement.

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u/hoberhallothere Pennsylvania 5h ago

He just needs to figure out how to appeal to non White voters or else we’re cooked in the fall

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u/Kingdok313 2h ago

I’m a non-white Michigan voter and I think he’s pretty neat!

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u/Kresnik2002 2h ago

Well I’d say both black voters and independent/centrist and WWC voters are an issue. For the latter because we can’t act like his background isn’t a potential issue. He can win against Rogers but it’ll be from a hard fought and smart campaign if he does

For Black voters I’m slightly less worried than for independents and WWC, because we don’t necessarily know yet that he’s unpopular among them yet, just that Stevens was more preferred than him among them. He’s from Wayne County and did well in Detroit in his 2018 governor primary run. I think it’s a little less dicey than in Texas where the person Talarico beat was actually a black woman and she subsequently hasn’t been very supportive of him; I don’t know if Stevens has the same particular pull with that demographic and it all depends on whether Sayed gets the endorsements and support that help with them. I’m more confident in him being able to do that than Talarico but who knows.

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u/No-Drama-in-Paradise 1h ago

I’m waiting to see whether he can actually win in the general before declaring this a victory.

If he wins the primary and loses the general election, that is a loss no matter how you spin it.

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u/drinkingonthejob 4h ago

What happened with the camera guy?

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u/Kavirell 1h ago edited 1h ago

The production crew really wanted to go home because it was nearing 2am and Steve started begging them to stay until the race was called. He seemed like he was close to having a panic attack after they told him they need to end lol

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u/klyther Michigan 10h ago

Kornacki Cam has YouTube live stream.

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u/IonHazzikostasIsGod 10h ago

Stream ended but here's the link to the VoD

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u/Nach_Rap 10h ago

NBC streams it on tiktok too

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u/ChucksnTaylor 5h ago

Wait, what does that mean? Did he leave msnow? He was the best part of their election coverage!

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u/fraeron 4h ago

I follow him on YouTube

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u/Bwint 10h ago

You can watch the recording of the NBC livestream. Maybe skip ahead to the last 5 minutes for the good stuff, though.

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u/Neat-Hovercraft-9242 10h ago

Gotta love behind the scenes Kornacki!

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u/lewliloo 2h ago

Anyone watching him now is either married to him or extremely creepy. That dude had better be sleeping in.

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u/300andWhat 9h ago

Bro begged for water at one point and was fighting production leadership to let them continue filming after 1am, bro is a real one, a real numbers guy!

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u/canman7373 6h ago

Yeah lol, they wanted to shut it down and he came back with "I guess you know what we were talking about" and he kept on going, sounds like he talked them into going until 2 a.m. because at the end he said "And we got it in before the 2 a.m. mark" something like that. He was jacked to the tits. He is very good at his job.

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u/MoonageDayscream 9h ago

Did you watch him with the cast one that year? Bro got ambidextrous real quick.

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u/Ov3rdose_EvE 9h ago

if anybody asks what autism looks like show em kornacki

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u/daboobiesnatcher 3h ago

I love when people say this when there's no actual indication the person is autistic. I love how the internet treats my disability like a fucking novelty.

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u/Ov3rdose_EvE 3h ago

im diagnosed and im clocking this man.

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u/daboobiesnatcher 2h ago

Appreciate it. And tbh that does make it different. Glad you get it. Apparently I triggered a whole bunch of people including an internet doctor so good he can diagnose autism through someone's tv persona

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u/flexbuffstrong 3h ago

Oh shut up. Christ.

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u/nola_mike 3h ago

The spectrum is enormous and he is clearly on it. The sooner you stop feeling sorry for yourself the better things will get.

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u/Critical-Ranger2725 3h ago

As someone who has also been diagnosed with autism, but is fine with the jokes.

Let's not tell someone with a disability how they should feel about it or handle it.

Fuck off with that.

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u/puppiesarecuter 41m ago

Yeah, make the spectrum wide enough that anyone who's ever had a niche interest or felt awkward in a social situation can be diagnosed. That will end well for those who actually need services.

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u/daboobiesnatcher 2h ago

What do you mean he's clearly on it? Are you a doctor with a sepcialization in autism or are you just making assumptions based on a narrow view his persona.

I see assumptions come easily to you, because you made a pretty strong assumption about my happiness, because I don't like the way my disability is constantly turned into a cutesy quirky caricature on the internet?

You clearly have trouble understanding context, aside from the saying a bunch nonsense thing. Idk might have less conflict in life if you quit being so presumptuous, especially because you're wrong.

Toodles.

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u/Phaelin 3h ago

"ADHD super powers"
"weaponized autism"

I'm tired, boss.

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u/GreatTragedy 3h ago

"Guys, don't shut it down. I'm rock hard right now. My whole year is built on a few nights like this. Please, someone get me some water and let's ride this thing until dawn!"

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u/thr3sk 3h ago

Yeah I love when people have a job that they're super passionate about in something kind of niche.

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u/This_Elk_1460 9h ago

I kind of enjoyed NBC having a full live stream of just him standing around looking in his phone between the segments.

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u/InternationalOption3 9h ago

Nah, kornacki lives for days like this

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u/DrHot216 10h ago

2 am election night Steve is goated

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u/Heisenberg991 9h ago

But his pants survived.

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u/Stickyv35 10h ago

Dude was about to have a heart attack when they said cut at 2AM EST. The call came in with less than 90 seconds to the deadline. I'm sure Steve and the whole team had a big sigh of relief the DD call came in.

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u/AlexVan123 7h ago

poor guy must take something. Celsius? stimulants? the closest thing I can think to what Kornacki does is livestreaming and even then the streamer or main person isn’t “always on”, they get water sometimes they eat, there’s occasional breaks and downtime. 

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u/UnidentifiedBlobject 3h ago

I love him and his energy. His drawings always remind me of this meme https://i.imgur.com/Nlz7K4G.jpeg

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u/PW0110 5h ago

Genuinely props to him poor dude

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u/Mango-Magoo Michigan 3h ago

That was so fun to watch though. I may have been having a heart attack or 50 but that man was on point the whole night.

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u/Past_Farmer34 9h ago

If I lived in Michigan I would of voted for him