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You’re reading The Weekly, a Saturday morning recap of the best Dispatch content of the week, with some additional commentary from Managing Editor Rachael Larimore.
Hello and happy Saturday. Welcome to the dog days of summer: Congress is on recess, sports fans are itching for the start of football season, and parents are maybe not entirely sad that the school year is about to start. With the relative lull in the news, many eyes were on the Midwest on Tuesday, and not just because of the major thunderstorms that rolled through and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people (including the Ohio bureau!). The real attention was on Wisconsin, where democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley despite a double-digit lead in polling.
The divisions between the progressive/socialist camp and the mainstream/establishment have been on full display throughout the primaries, from the Maine Senate debacle with Graham Platner to a handful of democratic socialists winning congressional primaries in New York, to the emergence of uber-progressive candidates in the Midwest. A week ago, I wrote about Abdul El-Sayed winning the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Michigan over four-term U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate. The Michigan Senate and Wisconsin governor primaries are interesting to compare and contrast—both races were close, but Michigan voters elevated a far-left candidate who is trailing in the first general-election poll conducted after the primary, whereas Wisconsinites made a safer choice for November.
