Edit: currently only NBC has called it, I may fall asleep before it gets confirmed by another outlet
Edit 2: Mallory McMorrow has conceded the race to El-Sayed
Edit 3: CNN and Associated Press just called it for El-Sayed
Edit 4: Stevens has conceded
Americans are such racist, cringe loving scum, this should’ve been an easy blowout, 65% at the least, not some ravor-thin slugfest
A woman clearly putting on an insulting fake accent screaming about how “Israel comes to me in my dreeeaamms!!” openly paid millions by AIPAC and half the state was like “hell yeah she’s cool”
Race and identity are everything in America, this election proves it, Sayed literally DID AND SAID EVERYTHING class reductionists claimed a candidate should if they wanted a plurality of support, the perfect model minioirty campagin with no gaffes or flups, but here he is winning based on a margin of thousands in a state of 10 million
A candidate who explicitly ran an anti-identity politics campaign (that I too thought was the smart move) has won, but lost the political mandate and momentum that a blowout would’ve given him, which is something Republicans will hone in on during the state general
Literally the only thing Stevens did in Detroit was pretend Obama endorsed her. He didn’t, but it’s so stupid that the PERCEPTION of an Obama endorsement makes it this close.
Arabic names scare midwesterners.
$60m in political ad-spend is a fkn terrifying weapon.
Also, good luck fundraising that forever as more anti-Israel candidates pop up all across the country. El-Sayed is going to be a household name by September.
And it’s not going away. I saw some commenters saying things along the lines of “oh, eventually they’re gonna run out if they keep burning money like this”. That misunderstands just how many resources the psychos control - even these insane spends represent a relatively modest investment. They own all the money, after all. The 2028 cycle is going to be a nuclear explosion of political spending.
Yea that’s why I’m kind of checked out with these candidates (even though I think it’s good they win). Up against an infinite money machine in bourgeois elections means at best they’ll have one or two terms before the pendulum swings back to the far right (aided by the republicans and the democrats)
I don’t think it will go away or run out, but I think it is a sign of the fundraisers’ jobs getting more challenging when they lose like this. They are weakened, but definitely not defeated (or even close to that)
I distinctly remember in the blowback episodes on Cuba and South Africa, that is sort of a circular deal, they send you foreign/military aid, you allocate some of it to redistribute come election day. As long as aid to Israel continues, democrats and republicans are going to keep getting paid.
Arg, that makes sense. I kinda wondered about the actual mechanics of how Israel could do so much spending, given that they are the population and economy of a mid-sized US state.
On the call, audio of which leaked to NBC News and others, El-Sayed said a victory for him in Michigan could reverberate into 2028 and encourage primary challengers against the likes of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who has fallen out of favor with the left. He characterized such a move as putting “an ogre on a pike” — rhetoric that some Democrats believed was targeted at Stevens, though El-Sayed had described Fetterman as an “ogre” in the past.
Dirty by NBC News, he was clearly referring to Fetterman and Stevens was corrected on this live on local TV by a debate moderator!
putting “an ogre on a pike”
Ohoho!
some Democrats believed
Classic weasel words.
95% reporting margin is quite small. Like 1.4% not over till it’s over and I’d imagine there will be challenges. Approxamately 1.5 Million voted in tbe Dem primary. Population of Michigan is about 10 Million.
Fake Yooper accent did not help Stevens in Da UP.
This is close. Less than 20k votes. What is funny is Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out, has 60k votes. Ones that more likely would have gone to Stevens.
Edit - Stevens closes gap to 1.2%
Edit 2- as of 9am it is now only 1.0% … there might be a real possibility of it coming to a contested recount - especially if it comes close to 0.1% and AIPAC will easily foot whatever costs for it.
Edit 3 - As of 10:04am It is finished. Stevens conceded the race to El-Sayed
I love Michigan and am so proud to have put up my hand to serve. I spoke with Abdul a few moments ago to offer him my full support as we work to defeat Mike Rogers this November. Thank you, Michigan.wtf is going on in Detroit? It makes sense a progressive like Abdul El-Sayed would win out in the urban centers like in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor, but then why is Detroit different?
It’s possible the Stevens campaign’s lie about her being endorsed by Obama actually paid off but I really hope I’m wrong
Muskegon has a significant Black population too. Why wouldn’t they go the way of Grand Rapids?
Bunch of Aunt and Uncle Toms holding back progress and looking the other way at genocide because of reasons I don’t understand. It would be interesting to see some exit interviews.
Democrats’ surging left wing faces a test in Michigan: Older Black voters
I think this video by FD Signifier discusses some of it. Basically, older black folks are happy with the consistent “devil they know”, and aren’t looking to rile up the whites, even is the policies sound better. The establishment have also developed inroads into their communities in ways that white “progressives” (and such) have not done successfully. Also they are boomers who watch too much cable news.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Christian Zionism is cross racial.
I think people are missing that Michigan has open primaries and no party registration, and at least in my district you didn’t even have to tell the poll worker if you wanted a Democrat or Republican ballot. The ballot had both the Democrat and Republican candidates on it, and you were only allowed to fill in one column (or it spoiled your ballot).
Most of the republican candidates were running unopposed or effectively so, so there wasn’t much reason for anyone to vote in the Republican column. The Democratic primary polls were of “Democrats,” though, which probably explains most of the discrepancy between the polling and the results.
Good news, albeit unsurprisingly close due predictably frustrating detroit results. Wish they could have found somebody to contest the governors race too though. Could have made it a data center referendum and probably won handily. People hate that shit and Benson is literally married to the industry.
It came to me in my dreams last night that he won 57.6% of the vote.
A concession came to Haley Stevens in her dreams.
I love Michigan and am so proud to have put up my hand to serve. I spoke with Abdul a few moments ago to offer him my full support as we work to defeat Mike Rogers this November. Thank you, Michigan.
Edit -
Reading the comments are many “I voted for you, but now I’m voting for the Republican.” When a chief charge from Stevens was that Republicans are backing El-Sayed.
With fascists, every accusation is a confessionJust curious, has Abdul received any major endorsements in the past few days? I heard something about it.
Happy for Actually Existing Socialism receives a whisper from a handler oh, sorry, happy for Abdul El-Sayed.
Didn’t he just receive an endorsement from the people who destroyed the Bernie Sanders campaign the other day? Could you check that for me?
