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Michigan Senate Primary Election 2026 Live Results: Stevens, El-Sayed, Rogers and More
With former Rep. Mike Rogers unopposed in the Republican primary, all attention has been on a bruising Democratic primary battle between physician Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens. Stevens has rallied the Washington and Michigan Democratic establishments to her side, while El-Sayed has captured energy and attention from progressive luminaries. The winner will face a sprint to the general election while trying to repair any damage from the long, hard-fought primary.
From my new weekly newsletter, the Data Dive, here's what I'm watching for tonight in Michigan. Hope you'll read and subscribe, and tune in for live results beginning at 7:45 p.m. tonight.
US politics: Can a left-wing Muslim win the midwest? Or are Democrats about to make a big mistake
Ypsilanti, Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed takes the microphone, and the 100-or-so-strong crowd rises to their feet in applause. He leads them in a call-and-response of his election slogans. “Money out of …?” he yells. “Politics,” they respond. “Money in your …? Pocket. Medicare for …? All.”
It is not a glamorous setting. We are in a basement at the Michigan Firehouse Museum in Ypsilanti, a small city between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Surrounding us is a collection of old-school firefighting vehicles and a 1913 Ford Model T repainted to look like one.
These are the unassuming rooms in which future leaders are made. In El-Sayed’s case, possibly an important leader. A doctor, unionist and Muslim, he is vying to become the Democratic candidate for the US Senate here in Michigan, a swing state that will decide the outcome of the midterms.
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Fact-checking Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens' claims ahead of the Michigan Democratic Senate primary
Michigan Democrats will pick their nominee for the U.S. Senate on Aug. 4 in a battle dominated by views on U.S.-Israel relations and the Democratic Party's future.
The race between Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens has exposed intra-party rifts about whether Democrats should move further to the left in a battleground state Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024. Criticizing U.S. aid to Israel, as El-Sayed has done, has become increasingly common in the Democratic base, and, in July, nearly half of House Democrats voted to cut off aid. (The vote failed because of Republican opposition.)
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