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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h ago

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What could explain Miller yesterday going on Newsmax and CNN -- but not Fox News, which also has basically ignored the story altogether? This seems like a job for Sean Hannity, and yet...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

NEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...

NBC calls it for El-Sayed www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Michigan Senate Primary Election 2026 Live Results: Stevens, El-Sayed, Rogers and More

See live results from the 2026 Michigan Senate primary election as Republican and Democrat votes are counted by candidate and county.

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This has been absolutely riveting tbh

Antrim County finally reported its votes almost all at once, and El-Sayed leads by 39 votes (out of 3,600+ total)

Another factor worth pointing out for El-Sayed's strong performance in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo: Around 40% of the population in each has a college degree. A little apples to oranges, but take Saginaw County where Stevens has done great: Just 24% there.

Votebeat's reporter in Detroit:

Hayley Harding@hayleyharding.bsky.social · 19h ago

Word on the street is the final round of absentees should be here ...... soon.

Very dumb reporter thing that no one should care about, but I feel pretty good about picking western Michigan for my limited swing on the trail. That's really where El-Sayed padded his margins and got some very impressive voter turnout

The Abdul college town bump has been a notable factor, and then you have all sorts of folks involved in state govt in Lansing too

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h ago

Kornacki pointed out that Stevens' real problem is Ingham County, where Michigan State University is based. We got about 25,000 votes left there. This might be enough of a firewall for AES

If you knocked on doors in Livonia, you might have ended up being in some of the most pivotal turf in this race

So in terms of where Stevens might have some vote left and any remaining path, I'm looking at Livonia and Plymouth in Wayne County, and then the area around Flint in Genesee County

The AP has called the #MI10 Republican primary for Mike Bouchard Jr., son of a local sheriff, and the Democratic primary for prosecutor Christina Hines. This is a Trump+7 seat but should be quite competitive in November.

Stevens continuing to kill it in Saginaw, Huron, and other counties on the thumb

El-Sayed could be on track for a double digit improvement in Grand Traverse County compared to his 2018 results against Whitmer (and Shri — I don't stand for Shri Thanedar erasure on this account). 2018: 40% (5k votes) 2026: 60% (6.1k votes with 60% in)

Okay so I think the Antrim County board of elections might be suffering from an excessive amount of drama with the county clerk and her husband

If you have the ability to order some Little Caesar's, now is the time

This one I found surprising: El-Sayed leading Stevens by about a point in Kalkaska County with about 90% of the vote in. One would assume Stevens could have done much better here based on these other whiter, less wealthy counties where she's been performing well.

Btw the county I'm in, Antrim, has yet to report any results.

Listening to the loons get up to some hijinks while watching the returns come in. Doesn't get more Pure Michigan than that, my friends

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

Stevens just keeps falling 10-ish points below Whitmer's numbers in 2018 in a lotta places, but there also does seem to be a polling error to some degree working in her favor with these mail-in vote numbers & in majority Black precincts

Gotta remember the fate of Shri Thanedar also hangs in the balance tonight in #MI13

Kornacki: "If you're Stevens, the early discouraging signs are adding up."

Damn, if you think those super PAC ads don’t work at all… a voter on MS just told @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social that Obama endorsed Stevens (he didn’t)

Anyone know why Max Miller is doing this CNN interview from LA?

This keeps getting so much uglier and uglier

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

How dare the American people, the most automobile-centric civilization in the history of the planet, complain about gas prices

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tom Emmer on Republicans trailing Dems by 8 points in the generic ballot: "Right now there are great things happening in our economy. Nobody wants to talk about 78 cent eggs, nobody wants to talk about milk that's under $2. No no. They want to focus on gas prices."

Wut?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Ron Johnson: "All these sports team fell into line, didn't use their brains like Aaron Rodgers did, they forced their players to get injected. Some of those players are grievously injured. They dropped unconscious on the field of play."

Today in totally normal things to say from the intellectual godfather of the tech right

Would be interesting to tell someone in 2021 at peak Eric Adams that, five years later, he would be getting booed in Wisconsin hawking data centers