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All week, Abdul has been putting on a masterclass in trolling Donald Trump and Mike “mar a lago” Rogers. He is precisely who we need in this political moment 😂🍿💯
If Mamdani’s campaign first signaled a possible shift, last night confirmed it: the insurgents are becoming the establishment.
Ask yourself: who would most Democrats in competitive races rather have an endorsement from—Mamdani or Chuck Schumer?
There you go.
1. Tonight is the culmination of one of the most heated and expensive Democratic Senate primaries in history. The Democratic establishment threw everything it had at Abdul El-Sayed. If he wins, the reverberations will be felt far outside of Michigan.
Agonized over whether or not it’d be superstitious to get custom AES nails. Anyway, custom Abdul for Senate nails incoming soon 👀😅 #Abdulista#AbdulforSenate
They have Trump donors, AIPAC, and tens of millions.
We have Bernie, AOC, nurses, teachers, UAW, working people, and Democratic leaders across Michigan, and the people.
Detroit’s Yvonne Lewis rejects the narrative that Black voters are largely siding with Haley Stevens.
“I don't care what the media, what the TV says about Haley... My neighbors are voting for Abdul El-Sayed.”
Gretchen Whitmer is more interested appeasing people who can set up her up with a cushy private sector job after her term is up at the end of the year than she is in actually looking out for the interests of Michiganders.
That’s why she’s embracing the construction of data centers — against Michiganders’ wishes — and why she vetoed 9 bills that would have lowered costs for Michigan families just two weeks ago. Don’t take my word for it, ask Mallory McMorrow (see below).
Birds of a feather stick together. It is no surprise that Whitmer is backing the only candidate in this race who is accepting corporate PAC money from any company that will offer it — from BlackRock, to Goldman Sachs, to DTE, and dozens more. Just like Whitmer, Stevens would return the favor to her corporate donors if she gets to the U.S. Senate.
@roxierichner, comms director for @AbdulElSayed, on Whitmer’s Stevens endorsement:
"The corporate establishment has closed ranks and made their pick – now, Michigan voters will get to make theirs."
Michigan is a must-win race if Democrats want to take back the majority, stall Trump’s agenda & block his judicial nominees during his final two years in office, and build toward a Democratic trifecta in 2029.
If you are a prominent Democrat and you refuse to back the nominee just because your preferred candidate lost the primary, then it’s abundantly clear that you care more about your petty grievances than actually helping the people who are suffering the most in this country under Trump. It means you are myopic, selfish & unserious.
This applies to El-Sayed supporters if Stevens wins the primary.
And this applies to Stevens supporters if El-Sayed wins the primary.
To find out who should rep MI, the NYT asked:
- pollster behind the Detroit News poll widely criticized for oversampling Haley voters
- a guy who has repeated called Abdul a Marxist
- Detroit News editor (conservative outlet, endorsed Haley)
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https://t.co/03wSlinVtK
This narrative is such a farce and insult to our intelligence. People arent mean to her bc she's a woman, they're mean to her because she's a genocidal cartoon character who is bought and owned by a foreign apartheid state that is openly committing crimes against humanity