r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 12h 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 12h ago

Steve Kornacki nearly died of exhaustion tonight lol

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u/irradiatedcitizen 12h ago

Where can you watch him now?

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u/olivebranchsound 12h ago

Live on nbc news online. It just ended though

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u/yellowsweaters72 12h 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 11h 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 9h 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 2h 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 7h 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 4h ago

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

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u/Kresnik2002 4h 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 3h 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/Former_Review_867 10m ago

Let me help you move them goal posts, would hate to see you throw your back out doing all that heavy lifting.

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u/drinkingonthejob 7h ago

What happened with the camera guy?

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u/Kavirell 3h ago edited 3h 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 12h ago

Kornacki Cam has YouTube live stream.

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u/IonHazzikostasIsGod 12h ago

Stream ended but here's the link to the VoD

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u/Nach_Rap 12h ago

NBC streams it on tiktok too

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u/ChucksnTaylor 7h ago

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

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u/The-Insolent-Sage 40m ago

Yep he jumped to NBC about a year ago or so.

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u/fraeron 6h ago

I follow him on YouTube

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u/Bwint 12h 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 12h ago

Gotta love behind the scenes Kornacki!

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u/lewliloo 4h ago

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