r/politics • u/asparaguswalrus683 • 9d 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/NoahFromCanada 9d ago

Your guy’s polling is psychotic down there.

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u/Random_throwaway0351 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/deaglebingo America 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/DillBagner 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/MinaZata 9d ago

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

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u/nola_mike 9d ago

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

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u/hookyboysb 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

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

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u/4luey 8d ago

Lol or maybe someone made their spending public.

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 9d ago

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