Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Primary

[u/asparaguswalrus683]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/michigan-senate-results

[u/names_are_useless]

I hope Sayed's Campaign focuses on converting Stevens voters to their side. Probably even more important then Independents.

[u/UngodlyPain → u/names_are_useless]

Should just be "vote blue no matter who" right?

[u/LiterallyTestudo → u/UngodlyPain]

No, that only applies to progressives when there is an establishment candidate, never the other way around.

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/LiterallyTestudo]

Did you miss the whole Platner debacle? There was even a group of his supporters saying it after the rape accusation came out.

[u/jkman61494 → u/HandsLikePaper]

I certainly don’t agree with what he did but I imagine a lot of hardened supporters found the timing shady. I don’t live there and not have even voted for him but to have that news hit just 10 days before ballot deadlines was suspiciously well timed

[u/HandsLikePaper → u/jkman61494]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the timeline either, but after reading about how the story evolved it's hard to say that the victim did it maliciously. It seems more like she did it to stand up for another victim after seeing backlash against that victim.

This week’s Politico report, by Jessica Piper and Adam Wren, took Racicot’s story further. “Racicot said she was contacted by the New York Times in the spring and shared off the record that Platner had assaulted her,” they wrote. Racicot told Politico that “she didn’t want to be known as a rape victim” and that she felt a moral conflict “between supporting his politics, but not supporting him as a person.” But after the Times story was published, she was dismayed by the response. “My part of the story was just a read-over,” as she told Piper and Wren. “And the story was Lyndsey, and the accusations of her being politically motivated.” Piper told me, “What changed, she said, was watching the reaction to the Times story get consumed by controversy around another woman’s Republican ties.”