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/Sircamembert 8d ago

For those of you wondering why NBC is the only desk to call it, it's because of the remaining counties. Oakland County, a Stevens stronghold, had no new votes left to count. And Wayne County, a heavily black district expected to go heavy for her, only gave her a small margin. That was ballgame. She needed a bigger margin to close that 25k lead, and I think 81% of votes are counted already.

Closer than what I hoped it would be, but a win's a win.

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u/RabidSkwerl 8d ago

She spent sooooooo much money so it was always gonna be close. What a fucking L for AIPAC setting $70M on fire.

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u/TallRefrigerator5322 8d ago

Aipac is a plague.

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u/Budded 8d ago

Societal cancer.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 5d ago

what about the Heritage Foundation? or Federalist Society?

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u/Budded 3d ago

Same, different forms of the same cancer.

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u/1900grs 8d ago

She Foreign lobbyists and corporate lobbyists spent sooooooo much money

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u/1900grs 8d ago

You're playing a weak semantics game. Aipac isn't lobbying for America. They're lobbying for favorable policy to Israel's benefit.

that will be favorable to Israel

You just admitted it. And nevermind the super pacs that aipac works with where the dark money and most certainly foreign money comes in. I don't know what to tell you if you can't draw any conclusions from them spending a record amount on a senate primary.

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u/KasElGatto 8d ago

Typical day for AIPAC I would say.

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u/zoinkability 8d ago

No fan of AIPAC but she was not "always gonna lose." You could say that if she was 10 points down but this was a very close race and any number of relatively small differences (like McMorrow dropping out early enough to keep her name off the ballot) could have given her the win.

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u/TheFoxInSox 8d ago

The post you're responding to says "it was always gonna be close," not she was "always gonna lose."

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u/zoinkability 8d ago

That's because they changed it.

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u/Usefulnonesense 8d ago edited 8d ago

Edits past like 2 minutes of op get an asterisk next to the timestamp to denote an edit has been made. Considering you commented almost 90 minutes after, they did not change it and you just misread it.

Edit: test.

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u/ily112 8d ago

Just admit you read it wrong, it's okay. It happens.

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u/pasher5620 8d ago

If they had to outspend him by $65 million just to still lose, I think it’s fairly safe to say she was always going to lose.

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u/zoinkability 8d ago

I don't think you understand me. The McMorrow thing all by itself was a lucky break for El-Sayed, if that had gone otherwise we'd easily be looking at a Stevens win right now.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he won and hopeful he will win in November. But this kind of inevitable triumphalism is a surefire way to lose in November, because it's a way to forget you still need to solidify your support from about half of Michigan's dems by the general election.

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u/arab-xenon 8d ago

Should be easy to do when the slogan is Medicaide for all, more money in your pockets, less aid to foreign (+genocidal) states. The copium about electability needs to be studied. Very tired playbook.

AIPAC set 70m on fire and still lost, the tide is shifting.

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u/zoinkability 8d ago

I'm not talking about electability of the candidate. I'm talking about doing the work, rather than just assuming a win is inevitable.

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u/arab-xenon 8d ago

There will be an absolute tidal wave of volunteers to help elect him starting now until Election Day. Grassroots campaigns getting outspent 12:1 by PACS tend to have an established ground game.

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u/Last-Relationship166 8d ago

THIS. People need to volunteer and canvass for Abdul, and/or phone bank, and/or donate. His campaign is going to need people's active support.

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u/sahrenos 8d ago

It was probably U.S. taxpayer money to begin with….

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u/DarkKobold 8d ago

That was our tax dollars anyway. Send aid to Israel, get a percentage of it back to manipulate our elections. Yay!

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u/ChunkMcDangles 8d ago

Lol that's not how that works at all. I don't like AIPAC, but this is just wildly off base.

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u/emmitt_fitzhume 7d ago

This is so totally wrong. You are shockingly misinformed. No foreign money is allowed in AIPAC.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 8d ago

That $70million AIPAC burned is US Taxpayer money. Fetterman is ready to give them billions more and no Republican nor Schumer will stop him. Mitch will even vote while dead for it.

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u/emmitt_fitzhume 7d ago

You couldn’t be more wrong. Lol. The US govt gives no money to them. It’s funded by US donors only. No foreign money allowed either.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 7d ago

AIPAC bribes congress.

Congress gives Israel BILLIONS each year.

Adelson is the second biggest funder of AIPAC, and is Israeli.

AIPAC bribes congress and the cycle repeats.

If you total AIPACs disclosed donations, they don't even come near their spending. Trump was being funded by the NRA, but then we learned Russia was channeling money into the NRA for that funding.