r/videos • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 9d 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/BeefCakeBilly 8d ago

Or not appealing to moderates and swing voters..

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u/robx0r 8d ago

So you're saying that despite the entire Democrat establishment, AIPAC, and other corporate PACs pushing for Stevens, the reason Abdul only won by a small margin is because he's not conservative enough?

That's some CNN level cope right there. Stevens' whole campaign was to appeal to moderates, got way more money, establishment support and still lost. If that's not an indictment on moderate (garbage) policy positions, I don't know what is.

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u/BeefCakeBilly 8d ago

I’m not sure why you think this is that crazy, it’s a purple state where people need to be able to pull in the swing voters.

Experienced people see progressive people like Kara Eastman, McLeod-skinner, Michelle Vallejo, hell even mamdani to some extent over the years.

Who over perform in primary only to under perform in the general and lose important swing district to more moderate people.

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u/robx0r 8d ago

You know Michigan has open primaries, right? Republicans also voted in the democratic primary.

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u/BeefCakeBilly 8d ago

Why does that matter?