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Democrat Benson leads by double digits in Michigan governor race, but El Sayed trails the Republican for senate … this should be big red flag for Michigan Democrats.

That El-Sayed is polling better in the primary than the general would be consistent with what we’ve discussed here - there are no examples of “new left”/Bernie progressives winning in a battleground race for governor, Senate, or the US House in recent years open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

Been A Good Week Of Polling For Democrats, New Polls In Michigan, As His Powers Ebb Trump's War With Reality Is Growing More Desperate

Got a bunch of terrific new candidate interviews for you.....

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Been reading On Courage. It should be required reading for Dems: “This basic arithmetic problem means sometimes living with contradictions, even embracing them.” Politics isn’t about finding people who agree w/you on everything. It’s finding enough people to push the jeep out of the mud together.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.