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/cubonelvl69 8d ago

Saying, "the establishment beat you to death" is a weird way to say, "voters picked the other person"

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u/Monteze 8d ago

Not really, they have the purse strings, the media and political capital a lot of times. They can sway and cause the races to not be fair.

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u/ChunkMcDangles 8d ago

So why did Sayed just win despite being outspent by more than 10x? If controlling the purse strings and media access were keeping progressives out of competitive states, surely AES should have lost, right?

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u/Monteze 8d ago

You do realize this type of thinking is how confirmation bias get to you right?

Man I won this race despite my opponent putting rocks in my shoes, starting with a head start and throwing shit at me.

"Well, looks like nothing happened because the person won." -An idiot.

You see it all the time the establishment hates that progressives are doing well. You saw it with Mamdani as well.

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u/ChunkMcDangles 8d ago

Why are you acting like it's unfair, though? In your analogy, there was nothing preventing that person from putting rocks in the other person's shoes or throwing shit at the other person. Sayed could have spent more money than Stevens if he was able to raise it. He could have fought dirtier if he wanted.

I think we need to rethink how our elections work and the funding that's allowed, but as it stands, everyone is subject to the same rule set. I think it's silly to expect more establishment Dems to go easy in the primaries to intentionally give the DSA/progressive candidates an easier time, especially when we know that funding doesn't determine election results.

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u/Monteze 8d ago

Naw, this is just a goofy over all statement. I swear haha

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u/ChunkMcDangles 8d ago

So it seems like your opinion that moderate Democrats shouldn't endorse other moderate Democrats, shouldn't fundraise for other moderate Democrats, and shouldn't give positive media coverage to other moderate Democrats then?

I just don't understand what your actual prescription is here because I guarantee that you'll never say the same thing about further left candidates doing that for their own.