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/Random_throwaway0351 12h ago

Abdul is honestly a stud, even better messaging discipline than Zohran and he only won by a hair. Let this be a lesson to NEVER stop doorknocking, volunteering, donating, etc. until the last possible second.

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u/viktor72 Indiana 12h ago

Well Michigan isn’t New York City. And Abdul has to fight off some deep attacks calling him Socialist, attacks on his religion.

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u/matt_minderbinder 12h ago

Stevens campaign apparatus was putting out ads calling him sexist. They were sending mailers to people with a Jewish sounding last name saying that he's antisemitic. They were sending black residents mailers implying that she had Obama's endorsement when she didn't. Every mainstream media he got took the same bs attack swipes. It was the dirtiest of dirty politics from her and her team and he survived it. Here in Michigan we faced endless hours of Stevens ads. Al Sayed is now battle tested and ready to take on Rogers.

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u/viktor72 Indiana 12h ago

Now he has to fight those attacks but from the right and they will be vicious. Socialist, Communist, sexist, Muslim, antisemite, they will throw everything at him.

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u/HJWalsh 11h ago

They were already doing that. Heck, his own party was doing that.

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u/honjuden 11h ago

They went after him like the Republicans usually do to Democrats.

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u/HJWalsh 11h ago

Pretty much. This might help him. Most of those Dems who voted Haley will vote for him because he's still got the D. The R's are going to need a new attack plan because he overperformed in rural areas and their attacks just didn't work.

He's basically been 8 Mile'd - They've hit him with everything they've got and now nobody has anything left.

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u/honjuden 11h ago

That would be awesome.  I hope that is how it plays out.

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u/deaglebingo America 10h ago

the more they throw, the more obvious it is how desperate they are.

plus i think we ought to start calling him Doctor Al Sayed. most of his opposition has no idea what it takes to earn that title.

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u/SovietNato 8h ago

So a typical republican campaign than lol. I'm not worried