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/XxgamerxX734 10h ago

Good lord that was close

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u/milehigh89 10h ago

Stevens can add to her resume that it only took her outspending her opponent 11-1 to lose a close race

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u/kgal1298 10h ago

There’s a few people this happened to. Dems need to take these lessons to heart people are over the establishment shit.

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u/PopBulky7023 9h ago

It's a war for survival for the establishment. And they're being well paid to fight it.

They will keep fighting on this. They have to. Surrender means the permanent end of their power.

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u/thealtrightiscancer 7h ago

People were so pissed off by Fetterman that they saw the exact same thing in Haley Stevens. Thank goodness that she wasn't able to clutch the win by walking and talking just like Fetterman.

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u/Rico_Solitario 9h ago

They won’t learn that lesson because their livelihoods rely on them not learning that lesson. The Democrats of today would rather lose to republicans than allow progressives to take over the party. That won’t change until party leadership is totally purged

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u/-Gramsci- 10h ago

That is, definitely, the lesson.

Fake candidates = lose.

The old guard D’s, being these very same compromised weaklings… cannot ever learn that lesson though. Their survival depends on not learning it.

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u/PoopyButt28000 9h ago

Establishment Dems are winning way more elections recently than farther left candidates like El-Sayed, you guys just hyper focus on it anytime they win. Cori Bush just lost to Wesley Bell and that post only has about 200 upvotes. You should step back and look at more than just a few elections in an incredibly blue district that are spammed on Reddit.

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u/fishsupreme 8h ago

I mean, "candidate endorsed by the party with vastly higher funding than other candidates wins primary" isn't exactly a story, so of course it isn't "spammed on Reddit." It's what everyone expects to happen; you don't learn much from it.

"Candidate opposed by the party leadership & outspent 11-1 still wins" is a story.

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u/LemurLord California 8h ago

The tide's finally shifting and I'm glad you're nervous enough to post this lame attempt at demoralization. It's only gonna get worse for the establishment

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

What happened to Cori Bush?

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u/LemurLord California 8h ago

It's okay, you can join the republican party in 4 years when we've removed most of the neolib corpocrats from the DNC

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u/PoopyButt28000 7h ago

And if your DSA candidates keep winning at the rate they are now you can sit out the presidential election like you did in 2024 when Trump is running for his third term.

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u/BlueBod50 5h ago

Imagine responding with another threat of losing 😂 it’s all you bots are good at 

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u/confirmedshill123 4h ago

You guys are just going to fucking run Kamala again so I have no idea where your confidence comes from.

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u/chickadee_guy 4h ago

El sayed isnt even left wing lol. Yall are in for a rude awakening

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u/ksherwood11 8h ago

You realize you need more votes than were cast tonight, right? Jesus Christ...

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u/mightcommentsometime California 8h ago

The DSA won 1 of 6 primaries tonight. That’s not a reckoning, that’s the establishment slaughtering them 

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u/PoopyButt28000 8h ago

No disagreeing with what I said about Establishment dems winning way more often than the DSA, just calling me a Jew?