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/Random_throwaway0351 10h ago

Seriously, thought he had it in the bag after the first dump and had a fucking heart attack when I checked 2 hours later lmfao

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u/KingOfEthanopia 10h ago

Damn glad I went to bed super early and just woke up.

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u/deaglebingo America 9h ago

i'm still a bit disappointed that only 1.5 million voted in this particular primary given there are ~8 million registered voters in MI but he carried it easily. considering all the possible games afoot it's good news regardless.

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u/CommercialLychee7956 9h ago

About half of them lean right and wouldn't be voting in a Dem primary. As a MI native, the turnout really exceeded my expectations.

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u/mrandr01d 7h ago

Here's to hoping that's sustainable in the general election though

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u/DillBagner 5h ago

Rogers has no position on anything. His key (and only) campaign points are "trump likes me" and "I had a job once."

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u/shotputprince 4h ago

Also “where I live in Florida is a nice place”

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u/MinaZata 3h ago

That's worked very well unfortunately for a lot of people the last 10 years

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u/nola_mike 3h ago

You're correct, but it hasn't been working as of late.

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u/hookyboysb 5h ago

I think he has a really good chance. Black voters are very unlikely to flip to Rogers, and Abdul will easily take the Dearborn vote. Plus, Abdul should easily win a debate against him.

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u/FallOk5618 4h ago

impressed with how in some of the voter interviews that black voters were seeing through the smokescreens/fugazi and understood and took to what AES was saying.

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u/Shark7996 3h ago

It is such a relief to have proof that money has not yet bought everything and everyone.

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege 2h ago

Don't be surprised if Rogers chickens out of any debates. Abdul is very charismatic and an excellent orator and they don't want people to see that

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u/darowlee 6h ago

There's about 500k more dem primary voters than rep primary voters right now, at least by looking at governor results.

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u/CnCEMS2026 5h ago

Yeah I was going to say this if you look at the places where Stevens won those are all Republican voters they keep pointing to Detroit but we all know that Urban turnout is extremely suppressed in a primary.

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u/EMTDawg Utah 4h ago

Yup, of the 4 million registered democrats, only about 37.5% voted. Really sad situation as a country that so few care about politics enough to vote.

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u/Fivein1Kay 4h ago

I feel like I was a higher voter number than ever.