Posted on 07/27/2026 6:04:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
No primary—especially a Senate primary—should go on this long. But Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, having dragged on for months, has turned into an interminably vicious grudge fest—one that’s not likely to subside until voters finally go to the polls on August 4 and choose between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed.
But the Michigan primary is also so bitter for the same reason that it has been so interesting. Of all of the 2026 races, this is the one that best captures the current fissures in the Democratic Party—and which seems to best predict where the fault lines of the 2028 presidential primary might lie.
The biggest reason is that this race features the cleanest factional divides. Stevens, who currently represents the northern Detroit suburbs in Congress, is an establishment stalwart, backed by both party leaders and tens of millions in AIPAC money. El-Sayed—a former state public health official who ran a failed campaign for governor in 2018—is a progressive and longtime ally of Bernie Sanders and has made criticizing America’s backing of Israel’s genocide in Gaza a key plank in his campaign. Briefly adding to the intrigue was the race’s third leading candidate, Mallory McMorrow, a young member of Michigan’s state Senate, who attempted to triangulate between these positions but dropped out earlier this month without endorsing either candidate. If you want a race that captures the expected “lanes” of the 2028 primary—establishment, insurgent, middle—look to Michigan.
In recent weeks, particularly after McMorrow’s exit, that race has also been fractious, bitter, and personal. Stevens’s surrogates and backers have argued El-Sayed is too radical and risks alienating swing voters needed to win a seat that is essential for Democratic hopes...
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Yep- Alex Shepard is just another propagandist pushing a myth.
And solidly and unapologetically anti everything Trump.
Running scared, my ass. These are the people they paved the road for.
The word genocide should have been in scare quotes. Or the word “alleged” should have been in front of it.
Will the “establishment Democrats” eventually think they have to go along with the more rabid progressives?
People of michigan please vote republican.
We need his vote for majority in the Senate. There won’t be a anti-Trump feeling after two years of his term. if we lose the Senate, Trump will be just in front of a whole bunch of investigative nonsense from the Democrats after day for the final two years. at least with majority, we can stop that and perhaps Trump can get a couple of judges through.
The correct candidate will not be known until the Hildabeast chimes in.
The Michigan campaigns against this Muslim focus around his “mistreatment of women”. They’re eating their own. There’s a claim he “criticized Michelle Obama”. That’s it. Just that he criticized. So, what, that isn’t allowed? That is “mistreating women”?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want him to win but he’ll get the Dearborn block vote. It’s just interesting the contradiction of the left, the “big tent” just means “vote for us so we get POWER”, even if our “big tent” tries to mix Muslims, feminists, Jews, and queers. lol.
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