I'm just a guy but if I were a Republican strategist I'd be pretty concerned about the correlation between "is susceptible to messaging about scary Muslims" and "already votes Republican"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

It's gotta be personal preference for someone like Scholten who went on Jake Tapper concerned about the direction of the party when Abdul had to have won her district by twenty points.

Kind of funny that it was such a nailbiter that I don't know if she went to Abdul's party

VoteHub@votehub.com · 14h ago

BREAKING — Mallory McMorrow has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

Kornacki called it, it's finally over.

They're calling it the "max takes" map:

Oh god the margin is going to be under the zombie McMorrow vote.

My fault, guys. Didn't consider the scenario where Abdul wins Livingston County by five points but loses Shiawassee by twelve.

It's going to be within three points for either side and that's the perfect range of "literally anything could have changed the result"

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 17h ago

If things stay this close, regardless of who wins, we're kind of in the zone of maximum intra-party recriminations. So that's... interesting, let's say. That's interesting

I think the fears about Benson are unwarranted. This is smart politics

Andrew Roth@roththereporter.bsky.social · 19h ago

Democratic nominee for governor @jocelynbenson.bsky.social says Michiganders voted "because they are asking us to fight for them, to stand up for them, to fix what's broken for them." "Let's take tonight's landslide victory and let's deliver another one this fall," Benson says.

Yeah that's a big RIP for doing it the Michigan way

VoteHub@votehub.com · 20h ago

Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Detroit City, In-Person EV: 🟠 Haley Stevens – 2,220 (51.0%) 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 2,013 (46.3%)

Turns out running no ground game and relying on a bunch of outside money doesn't really work. Shocking.

If Oakland County drops are good it's probably a call at nine for Abdul

Of course this is the one night Oakland County takes forever to count absentees

Lawrence up 22 in that Eaton drop. Almost certainly getting Abdul/Lawrence/McKinney by the end of the night

First Eaton drop is really good too. It's probably over.

Abdul essentially up to 100% after the Kent early vote drop LOL

Taught my daughter to say "capitalism is over" for whenever Abdul is declared the winner tonight

It is pretty crazy that the DSCC didn't galvanize around McMorrow last summer/fall

Happy "OMG AOC is going to be President" day for everyone celebrating

They're calling it the bag fumble election.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d ago

This guy claims that Stevens' internal pollster told her today she has no pathway to victory on Tuesday

Beyond the obvious conclusion the President is not in his right mind, seems incredibly obvious that his local circle is printing out diffusion model slop to get whatever policy they want out of the President. Watergate-level scandal every day.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d ago

Absolutely had to check this one because it couldn’t be real. It’s real.

I don't know how you do it by policy but for the love of god we need to end this madness of "operation by Monday bell"

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d ago

*TRUMP ORDERS ATTACK ON IRAN FOR AS SOON AS THIS WEEKEND: WSJ

This stuff is always incredible because it gets the cause and effect backwards. Uncommitted was a signal of Biden's own weaknesses, much in the same way that the success of Bernie 2016 was a signal for Clinton's weaknesses, but somehow the appearance of weakness is the issue here?

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 5d ago

Rep. Dan Goldman, who lost his primary nearly 2:1, is giving advice to democrats at 4 AM: “If you were a supporter of the Uncommitted movement — which was significantly responsible for Trump 2.0 — then you are in no position to demand anything from Democrats.”

So like are we going to get a Chris Matthews-esque freakout when Abdul and William Lawrence win their primaries next week?

The "Abdul is a podcaster" line of attack is so weird to me. Clearly the Stevens camp wants to suggest he's like Joe Rogan but America Dissected is a public health podcast.

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

Seems pretty clear that someone is going to be wrong on polling between ones that show Stevens up seven and these showing Abdul up by fifteen

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6d ago

FOUR POLLS IN TWO DAYS Mitchell Research 🟦El-Sayed 52% 🟦Stevens 38% Emerson poll 🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 54% 🟠 Haley Stevens 39% Tavern Research Poll 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 48% 🟦Haley Stevens 37% SoCal poll 🟢 Abdul El-Sayed 56% 🟠 Haley Stevens 39%

Look man, he could very well underperform by a point or two, but he also has the sauce to create some real coattails down the ticket.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6d ago

With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today

Democrats would be smart to reduce the impact of the Glonzo vote by maximizing their advantage with college-educated voters in situations like this where it's a public good

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6d ago

a future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students

The demographic reality is Bernie got something like 80% of the under 40 vote in the 2016 primary and we're ten years after and it's not like the under 50 are less progressive now. A lot of the older conservative Democrats have either died or have become Republicans.

Opinion Haver@asinmarx.bsky.social · 7d ago

A major issue with the establishment's efforts fending off individual progressives like El-Sayed, Hong, Chevalier, Kiros, Gonzales, Flanagan, etc, is that we're well past the point where it's clear that young voters just Do This now, and who do you think is going to make up the electorate later?

My coworker who had the photo of Trump being shot took it down in the past few weeks. It's uh happening to the Glonzo types you'd expect.

Joe Flynn@chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is interesting. I know some relatives and such who voted for Trump, but I've never met anyone in real life who voted for him and expressed regret.