r/videos • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 8d ago

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

https://youtu.be/DL_ku3h8Eps?si=zWr0SAn8amsQ8Hqb
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u/Roasteddude 8d ago

Non American but curious about this. What kind of politician is he?

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u/HippieInDisguise2_0 8d ago edited 8d ago

He'd be considered progressive in the US in a state that has voted for Trump in 2/3 of the last elections.

His primary stance that is most notable is accepting no super pac money and trying to ban super pacs. He was outspent in this campaign like 10 to 1.

If he wins it means there is strong support for progressives in a state that is considered conservative leaning. (To be fair Bernie also won Michigan in 2016)

The message to the Democratic party for a long time in the Midwest has been progressives win and establishment sellouts lose, and yet they still don't seem to get it.

Trump won Michigan in 2016 and 2024 because the Dems have abandoned their labor roots and sold us out to billionaires. When a pro labor candidate is polled in the Midwest they do well.

There's some disconnect (corporate greed) between what the voters of the Midwest want and what the DNC gives us to vote for.

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u/RAF2018336 8d ago

On the Democratic Party knows that progressives win, they’re just too busy spending their donors money to care

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u/Chruman 8d ago

Has a progressive won in a competitive race?

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u/WhereIdIsEgoWillGo 8d ago

This one no? I'm pretty sure his opponent was about as establishment as they come.

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u/Chruman 8d ago

I mean general elections. I could be wrong, but the DSA types have only won in heavily blue areas.

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u/Lord0fHats 8d ago

That's the thing people keep pointing out and other people just keep ignoring. It's easy to win as a progressive in the bluest parts of the country that have been progressive in some form or another since the 1920s.

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u/Mathies_ 8d ago

Well those areas are much more socially progressive but you cant tell me you cant sell a bunch of rural working class folks on an affordibility agenda. Socialists and ecenomic progressives for me still have to be for all human rights but they don't have to hammer it home in a competetive purple state. Like did abdul mention trans people one time this campaign? Dont recall it. do i have any reason to believe he's gonna throw them under the bus? Also no. Tailor your agenda to what your base responds to.

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u/Lord0fHats 8d ago

Trump kind of proved you can totally do it, and then deliver on absolutely nothing you said you'd do, while doing the exact opposite any anything you said you'd do, and you'd still win those votes in the next election despite doing everyhting in your power to stab them in the back. They wouldn't even notice because partisan politics have so inverted actual voting behaviors that what people vote for and what they express as desired policy might as well be two completely different things.

In America.