Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
www.nbcnews.com
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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

  • free_casc [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    34·
    16 days ago

    $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.

    • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      21·
      16 days ago

      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.

      • Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        16 days ago

        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)

      • free_casc [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        3·
        16 days ago

        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)

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      16 days ago

      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.