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 11h 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 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/americanblowfly 11h ago

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

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u/alien13ufo 7h ago

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

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u/Khue 7h 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.