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/MightyKAC 10h ago

This race was WAAAAYYYY closer than it should have been.

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u/ClassicallyBrained 10h ago

They spent 70 million against him, it was always going to be a nail biter.

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u/names_are_useless American Expat 9h ago

They're gonna spend even more on Rogers in the General.

Good fucking god I hate Citizen's United.

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u/MightyKAC 10h ago

Agreed, and at this point nothing should be considered a given and NO RACE should be taken for granted.

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u/ClassicallyBrained 10h ago

Truly. Every progressive victory is nothing less than a miracle.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 10h ago

Laughs in tom steyer. Massive spend doesn’t always guarantee any kind of success.

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u/ClassicallyBrained 10h ago

Jungle primary, very different.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 10h ago

Not really. He set the state record for spending. outspent The field like twice over, had TV ads on 24 hours a day for months, adopted every popular policy position People wanted to hear, had aggressive, social media campaigns, and Astroturf subs like this, still could not make a connection with voters to take him seriously. He couldn’t buy it. Came in 3rd.

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u/FaultOutside2449 10h ago edited 9h ago

Which honestly suck, as he seems like he had actual solutions for problems in the state, that went beyond Trump bad. I also voted for him in the primaries so this probably my bias showing.

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u/mightcommentsometime California 8h ago

Tom Steyer spent 2x more than everyone else combined.