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On Aug. 4, Michigan voters have a chance to help save the Democratic Party by selecting Rep. Haley Stevens over Abdul El-Sayed as Dems’ nominee for the US Senate.
The far left has been on a roll in primaries throughout the nation, not simply in deep-red House districts however in some statewide contests; now could be the time for sanity to triumph.
No query that El-Sayed is the left’s alternative: He’s endorsed by Bernie Sanders, AOC and the occasion’s complete Israel-hating wing, in addition to the native Working Families Party.
An MD who by no means pursued a license to observe drugs, he’s spent his grownup life in academia and authorities; apart from demonizing the Jewish state, his core difficulty is Medicare for All, the Sanders prescription for nationalized health care, and he additionally calls to abolish ICE.
Stevens is a totally different variety of apparatchik, working in occasion and politics-adjacent coverage jobs for her complete profession.
She’s at all times been solidly pro-Israel, whereas emphasizing different points like assist for restoring America’s industrial would possibly and different centrist Democratic priorities; she’s endorsed by institution figures akin to Sen. Chuck Schumer — and simply obtained a key endorsement from common Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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Most important: El-Sayed is totally vile.
After the foiled terrorist assault on a Jewish pre-school at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield this spring, he staged a press convention with extremist podcaster Hasan Piker to justify the atrocity: “Hurt people do hurt people, and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here.”
This, as a result of the would-be killer was Lebanese and Israel was combating to defend itself from Hezbollah.
June noticed him take the stage at the opening of a native mosque with Fadhel Al-Sahlani, a radical imam and Holocaust denier working out of Queens, to offer “hearty congratulations” to the mosque’s new imam Hassan al-Qazwini, who has eulogized Hezbollah fighters and made overtly antisemitic remarks.
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On Obama-bro podcast “Pod Save America,” he mentioned he’d “vote for Hamas over Israel every single time”; his marketing campaign despatched out a fundraising e-mail on the second anniversary of Oct. 7 falsely suggesting that Israel began the violence; and on and on.
He’s additionally a hypocrite, slamming any physician who refuses to take Medicaid sufferers as racist when his own spouse does exactly that; denouncing the pay hole for black girls when he earned far more as Wayne County health director than the black girls who had the job earlier than and after him.
The race is tight: El-Sayed is the national far left’s new great hope after the implosion of Graham Platner in Maine, and the donations are pouring in.
And whereas Stevens has more assist amongst conventional Dem teams in Michigan (e.g., blacks and working-class, for starters), El-Sayed unites each the normal lefty white school grads with a giant Muslim population.
Ironically, the average Dem’s greatest motive for hope is that Michigan has open primaries, so voters not registered as Democrats can end up to help save the occasion.
We’re rooting for her . . . although if El-Sayed will get the nomination, Republican Mike Rogers will have a great chance to win in November, which of course is the different means to crush the far left.
