ON MICHIGAN, KEEP BIG PICTURE IN MIND. The first thing to say about Abdul el Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary is that it’s not a story about polls. OK, it is a story about polls — they were really, really bad, and el Sayed’s win was much narrower than predicted — but that is not the most important thing about the race. The most important thing is that a radical, Democratic Socialists of America-aligned candidate — a guy who spent the day before the election hanging out at a pool party with Hasan Piker — is now the Democratic nominee for Senate from Michigan. And that means the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party has taken an enormous step forward.Look at who did not want el Sayed to win. The Democratic National Committee did not want him to win. Neither did Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer. Neither did former House speaker and still powerful player Nancy Pelosi. Neither did Democratic kingmaker James Clyburn. Neither did the Congressional Black Caucus PAC. Neither did the rest of the party establishment.
Just say that the old base of the Democratic Party had its doubts. For example, during the campaign, Clyburn said he was “concerned” by a photo from an el Sayed rally in Michigan. “I didn’t see a single person that looks like me,” Clyburn, who is the second-most senior African American in the House, said. “That tells me all I need to know.” In Tuesday’s voting, el Sayed’s opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, who is white, won Wayne County, which has the state’s largest black population, by 6 points; Oakland County, which has the second-largest black population, by 7 points; and Macomb County, which has the third-largest black population, by 7 points.
