Abdul El-Sayed's COVID radicalism is a callback to a more united party
The pandemic provided a glue that held the Democratic Party together. Without it, they don't know what they believe.
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Most of the votes are in, and it looks like former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is going to win the Michigan Democratic Party's much-watched Senate primary.
Coverage of the race has treated it as the latest battle in Democrats' civil war; the progressive (but not officially socialist) El-Sayed was going up against the more moderate Rep.
El-Sayed's likely victory would seem to confirm that Democrats' left flank is ascendent in this intra-party struggle.
The well-covered fissures between El-Sayed and Stevens include their stances on Israel (El-Sayed calls Israel's war in Gaza a genocide, Stevens wants military aid to the country to continue) and healthcare (the former wants Medicare for All, the latter merely supports a public option).
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