El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

Congratulations to @jocelynbenson.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, and all the candidates up and down the ticket who earned our party’s nomination here in Michigan. Now it’s time to come together and deliver the case that Democrats must make over the next 90 days, everywhere we go.

In a race in which the GOP will attack El-Sayed as a communist, and one in which El-Sayed attacks Rogers and the GOP for doing little to nothing to lower the cost of groceries, housing, energy, and health care for struggling families, I like El-Sayed's chances.

Contrary to much of the political commentary we've been seeing, I predict that El-Sayed will defeat Rogers by at least 5 points.

New York Times reports that Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Democratic senate primary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

Michigan Election Results Live Updates: Abdul El-Sayed Wins Democratic Senate Race in Michigan (Gift Article)

Dr. El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, narrowly defeated Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, in a bitter campaign dominated by the politics of Israel.

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New York Times officially calls race for El-Sayed.

NBC News' projects that El-Sayed has won Michigan Dem. Senate primary. Currently leads by 1.5 percent with 95..2 percent of vote in. Other networks have not yet called the race, because Wayne County has reported 83 percent of the vote and still reporting vote.

Michigan Dem. Senate primary is razor close and the current margin is less than 2 percent. McMorrow is now at 4 percent of the vote, and in such a close race, this might make all the difference.

48.2 percent of Wayne County in, El-Sayed closes margin in Wayne to less than 9 percent (12,242 votes). Ali Velshi says that there is still a large number of early vote left to be counted that will favor Stevens, but that outstanding vote in Hamtramck and Highland Park will favor El-Sayed.

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Seems like the large increase in Wayne County totals which boosted Stevens totals was the early vote that was likely to favor Stevens. Assuming Election Day vote is more favorable for El-Sayed in Wayne, seems likely that El-Sayed will narrow the lead in Wayne.

El-Sayed trails Stevens 2.3 pct in her home county Oakland County (2nd most populous county), leads Stevens by almost 16 percent in Macomb (3rd most populous county). Kent is the fourth most populous county, and with 51 percent of the vote in, El-Sayed leads Stevens 65.8 to 30.7.

Looks like large amount of votes just came in from Detroit and Wayne County, Stevens now leads by almost 30 percent in Wayne County, but El-Sayed leads statewide 49.7 to 46.7.

The fun (or agony) as always is waiting for Wayne county totals

The fun (or agony) as always is waiting for Wayne county totals

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

El-Sayed leads Stevens 51.8 to 44.8 w/ 21.4 percent of vote in. Right now, Oakland and Macomb County totals look favorable for El-Sayed, but will all come down to Wayne. In Oakland, El-Sayed trails by less than 2 percent w/ 67 % in.. In Macomb, El-Sayed leads by 16 percent with 14 % in..

NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections

El-Sayed now leads in Macomb County 52.5 to 44.2 with 7.5 percent of vote in.

Watching these returns from Michigan, and can't get the line "It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw" out of my head. El-Sayed leads Stevens 59-39 in Saginaw County (only 3 percent in)

Here are the vote totals from Washtenaw County: El-Sayed leads Stevens 70 to 29 percent with 22 % of vote in.

El-Sayed holding big leads in early returns from Washtenaw county (Ann Arbor) and Livingston County.

Still very early, with 3 percent of vote in in Michigan Dem. Senate Primary El-Sayed 27,061 62.3 percent Stevens 14,788 34 percent McMorrow 1,622. 3.7 percent

So far these votes are mostly the early vote from Kent County (Grand Rapids)

Most polls now closed in Michigan, but for election enthusiasts or nerds, four counties in the U.P. in the Central Time Zone (with a few thousand votes) have polls that will close at 9 pm.

Early voter numbers way up in Michigan: "The 1,214,251 ballots represent 16.5% of Michigan’s active registered voters..includes 138,680 ballots cast at early voting sites and 1,075,571 absentee ballots." Early in-person turnout *increased 88.6%* as compared to 2024. www.wtol.com/article/news...

So far these votes are mostly the early vote from Kent County (Grand Rapids)

Curious to see what percent of the vote McMorrow gets tonight.

Most polls now closed in Michigan, but for election enthusiasts or nerds, four counties in the U.P. in the Central Time Zone (with a few thousand votes) have polls that will close at 9 pm.

Early voter numbers way up in Michigan: "The 1,214,251 ballots represent 16.5% of Michigan’s active registered voters..includes 138,680 ballots cast at early voting sites and 1,075,571 absentee ballots." Early in-person turnout *increased 88.6%* as compared to 2024. www.wtol.com/article/news...