As the dust settles on the Michigan Senate primaries, Republican candidate Mike Rogers must be popping open a bottle of champagne right now in celebration of the results. Not due to his own primary — he ran uncontested — but the Democratic primary, where radical leftist Abdul el Sayed has defeated moderate Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).There are two key takeaways from el Sayed’s victory that cannot go unmentioned: First, Michigan’s Democratic Party has fallen to the “Mamdani Left.” While el Sayed says he is not “technically or practically” a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, his platform aligns with the far-left organization’s goals, and his public allies are self-professing “democratic socialists.” Second, Michigan is a swing state — which does not bode well for a radical candidate on either side of the political aisle. President Donald Trump won the state twice, in 2016 and most recently in 2024, and was fewer than three percentage points away from winning it in 2020. That’s why Stevens would have been far more dangerous in the 2026 election. While Michigan is Trump-friendly, it has elected Democrats in seven of the last nine presidential elections — meaning it’s absolutely winnable for the right Democrat. A moderate fits that bill far better than a divisive, far-left “progressive.”