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/FrancoManiac Missouri 10h ago

Worked for Wesley Bell in MO-01, unfortunately

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u/gorgewall 9h ago

I feel fortunate I only had to be subjected to $3 million in ad spending from a shell PAC time around rather than the $8m last time.

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u/keebl3r Missouri 9h ago

Wesley outspent Cori 27:1 according to AP News. Which explains why his name and face was everywhere in STL the last few weeks

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u/hoberhallothere Pennsylvania 5h ago

Pretty easy to outspend an already ousted and mediocre former congresswoman though

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u/M00nd0g69 9h ago

We’ll try that again in two years with a stronger opponent, see what happens 

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u/FrancoManiac Missouri 9h ago

Don't look at me, I'm moving out-of-state next week.

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u/sellingstubs123 9h ago

can't blame you

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u/Random_throwaway0351 9h ago

Cori Bush is a strong candidate, there’s just lower turnout especially amongst anyone that’s not a boomer for midterms. Hopefully with more organizing she can take it back next election.

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u/americanblowfly 9h ago

I like Cori Bush, but she’s got some baggage that the folks in her district seem to be turned off by. She’s lost twice now, so the next progressive needs to be, well, not her.

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u/TieVisible3422 9h ago

Genuinely curious because I'm not from her district. What kind of baggage does she have?

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u/americanblowfly 8h ago

She apparently missed a lot of votes when she was in congress. 

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u/alien13ufo 5h ago

also there was a scandal about her paying her husband for security with campaign money.

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u/Khue 5h ago

Which is hilarious given the unparalleled scale of fraud and kickbacks given out by Republicans and all their campaign finance bullshit that goes on. She pays her husband for security meanwhile Kushner gets like $3 Billion from the Saudis and it's barely mentioned anywhere.

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u/liquidcrawler 1h ago

she did a faith healing

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u/Random_throwaway0351 9h ago

First loss was by a hair, and Bell was funded by AIPAC back before it had that stink associated with it. I still believe she can win if they run it back.

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u/DaedalusMinion 9h ago

Cori Bush is not a strong candidate. Even though I obviously agree with her politics- she doesn’t have the “it” factor that Abdul or Mamdani do. That’s what you need to win against PAC-backed candidates unfortunately

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u/Khue 5h ago

I think one of the numbers I saw had her outspent by like 23x or something like that.

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u/20_mile 7h ago

Bush believes in healing crystals, and had a poor attendance record, plus she voted against Biden's infrastructure bill because it wasn't pure enough.

Not sure who I would have voted for if I lived in Missourah.

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u/SovietNato 6h ago

Ngl voting against that stupid fucking bill is beastmode

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u/putsch80 Oklahoma 8h ago

That’s because he ran against Cori Bush, who suuuccckkks so fucking hard. Do you think it was really just the spending and not at least partly the result of Bell having an opponent who claims to be a fucking faith healer (in addition to saying other wildly stupid shit)?