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JFREJ, NYC DSA member. Jew for a Free Palestine. Padres and Washington Huskies fan. Owner of two dogs and two birds, do digital for an environmental organization, and loving life in the Big Apple, baby! 🗽
I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50
I’d say my current MI-Sen prediction is that El-Sayed underperforms a Generic Dem — having an Arab name/being a Muslim is probably a few % penalty in this country — but that he wins by 2-3% in a blue wave environment.
Props to the Democratic establishment for immediately getting behind El-Sayed and sticking to Vote Blue No Matter Who
Obviously polling gave us a very distorted view of the race but it’s extremely funny seeing Haley Stevens portrayed as some gritty underdog despite an 11:1 spending advantage and the backing of the entire Democratic establishment lol
Have to give credit to Shri Thanedar for lasting this long in a district that should not have been favorable to him but man, good riddance to that guy lol dude clearly believed in absolutely nothing at all
AES clearly got a bit arrogant at the end and was acting like he was going to win by 20 so hopefully this is a wake-up call of sorts for him that he has a lot of work to do
To DSA members who want to run on their own ballot line: Here’s what that actually looks like
AES’ message from now until November just needs to be Trump bad and everything sucks thanks to him, Obama good, and we’re taking money away from our beautiful car industry to fight foreign wars.
AIPAC lit tens of millions of dollars on fire with an awful candidate in Haley Stevens and yet they were given hope all last night that she had a chance. Truly beautiful.
A Muslim with a very Arab name running on a left-wing platform winning a statewide Democratic primary anywhere — let alone the Midwest — would have been unthinkable even a year or two ago. Now comes the hard part but this is still an incredible victory.
Centrists are trying to spin a sitting member of Congress with an 11:1 spending advantage losing as a win somehow. They should be ignored. But AES has a lot of work to do and I think we needed a bit of a punch in the face because let’s be real, we were riding a little too high.
Cannot fall asleep now lmao too much adrenaline
way closer than expected, but an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending is an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending: a political earthquake and a new dawn 25 years after 9/11
The Democratic Party has come a long way in a short time. Still much work to be done though.
AES is significantly outperforming Bernie 2016 in Detroit but doing much worse in rural areas lmao
Stevens being borderline right-wing on Israel probably was the difference here. Decent chance she wins if she’s even a liberal Zionist, not Midwest Fetterman.
AES probably is performing poorly in rurals because of ad spending? All people do there is watch TV lmao
NYT has the projection at El-Sayed +1.6 now 😬😬