{"id":8721,"date":"2026-08-05T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:07:07","slug":"el-sayed-gives-progressives-another-victory-and-a-new-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8721","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed gives progressives another victory and a new challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Michigan\u2019s primaries, the most progressive candidates won out, extending their movement into the Rust Belt and setting up a major test in November.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8718\">This chaplain may become first trans person elected to Michigan legislature<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8720\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0ac917aa2b2c46f4b495b93e08639455-1024x711.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0ac917aa2b2c46f4b495b93e08639455-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0ac917aa2b2c46f4b495b93e08639455-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0ac917aa2b2c46f4b495b93e08639455-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0ac917aa2b2c46f4b495b93e08639455-1536x1067.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0ac917aa2b2c46f4b495b93e08639455-2048x1423.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>People wait for election results Tuesday in Detroit. (Ryan Garza\/USA Today Network\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Democratic Party insiders were quick to dismiss the insurgent victories of some left-wing candidates in primary races this summer as little more than a product of deep-blue, big-city politics.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of antiestablishment message that can win in heavily Democratic areas, they said, was not enough to win the battlegrounds where progressives also would have serious Republican opponents in November.<\/p>\n<p>Then came Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/05\/takeaways-big-primary-night-michigan-kansas-missouri-more\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/05\/takeaways-big-primary-night-michigan-kansas-missouri-more\/\">primary in Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In races up and down the ballot, Michigan<b> <\/b>Democratic primary voters rejected the electability argument offered by their mainstream leaders, instead opting for progressive candidates who have pledged to tax billionaires and curb spending on wars overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul El-Sayed, a populist former health official who campaigned largely on getting money out of politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/05\/how-el-sayed-won-contentious-michigan-senate-democratic-primary\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/05\/how-el-sayed-won-contentious-michigan-senate-democratic-primary\/\">narrowly won<\/a> the primary for an open Senate seat key to control of that chamber.<\/p>\n<p>And Michigan voters also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2026\/08\/04\/michigan-house-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/2026\/08\/04\/michigan-house-primary-election-results-2026-live-updates\/\">nominated<\/a> William Lawrence, a progressive housing and environmental activist, for a battleground House district, as well as ousted an incumbent House Democrat from the Detroit area in favor of a democratic socialist.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night\u2019s results hardly resembled a blowout. El-Sayed was leading by about one percentage point. Lawrence won a plurality of the vote with two moderate candidates splitting the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the narrow wins will force mainstream Democrats to reckon with a groundswell of anti-Washington populism that could shape the party\u2019s identity in a post-President Donald Trump era. The left-wing victors now face a test: Will their message appeal broadly enough to defeat well-funded Republicans in a battleground state far more used to political moderation?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbdul will be the tip of the spear in proving an economic fighter can win a swing state,\u201d said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a political action committee that backed El-Sayed. \u201cOnce that happens, the lid can be blown off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A power-lifting Rhodes Scholar and former gubernatorial candidate, El-Sayed overcame a spending disadvantage of nearly 9 to 1 against Rep. Haley Stevens (D) for the Senate seat currently held by the retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D).<\/p>\n<p>Groups that backed him, including Justice Democrats and Green\u2019s PCCC, also pooled support behind two House candidates: state lawmaker Donavan\u00a0McKinney, who unseated Rep. Shri Thanedar (D) for a safe Democratic seat in the Detroit area, and Lawrence, who co-founded the Sunrise Movement climate group and now faces a GOP incumbent in a battleground district based in Lansing.<\/p>\n<p>Since Bernie Sanders\u2019s campaign for president in 2016, progressives have been insisting that a populist economic approach can win in swing districts by appealing to independent and working-class voters who vote for Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>But races such as the one in Michigan, where El-Sayed is set to face former congressman Mike Rogers (R) in the general election, will demonstrate how far that message might resonate in a general-election battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur side hasn\u2019t had enough races to prove that theory of the case because the establishment has been so focused on snuffing them out,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed\u2019s victory relied on the same kind of highly educated voters who backed similarly progressive congressional candidates in New York, Washington, Seattle and Denver, according to a Washington Post analysis of election and demographic data.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he also won middle-class voters across all races and posted large-enough margins in the suburbs and state\u2019s rural areas to shut out Stevens.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Czuba, a longtime Michigan pollster, said that El-Sayed\u2019s support for policies such as Medicare-for-all were effective at locking down a base of support from the party\u2019s left wing.<\/p>\n<p>Heading toward November, Czuba said, El-Sayed will need to recast his messaging to court the swing state\u2019s independent voters by focusing on the failure of the country\u2019s political system broadly instead of specific policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has that opportunity to introduce himself and pivot,\u201d Czuba said.<\/p>\n<p>In a call with reporters Wednesday, Sanders pointed to the victory of Michigan populists as evidence that voters are connecting with a message that America\u2019s economic and political systems are \u201crigged\u201d and \u201cbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbdul talked about that, and people in Michigan responded,\u201d said Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8715\">Michigan Senate primary shows Democratic establishment has lost its grip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not all left-wing candidates prevailed Tuesday night. In Missouri, Rep. Wesley Bell (D) easily defeated former congresswoman Cori Bush, a democratic socialist whom he had unseated two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But within Michigan, the<b> <\/b>victories of the left flank of the Democratic Party extended down the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas Alawieh, who founded the \u201cUncommitted\u201d movement to oppose President Joe Biden\u2019s Middle East policy by voting against him in the 2024 presidential primary, was on track to win the primary for a state Senate seat in Detroit. And in the college town of Ann Arbor, democratic socialist Yousef Rabhi unseated a 12-year incumbent mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic socialists also have won mayoral contests in New York, Seattle and Washington, and secured the Democratic nominations for House seats in urban parts of Colorado, New York state and Pennsylvania. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), one of the first democratic socialists elected to the House, easily won her Detroit-area primary Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cara Tobe, communications chair for the Democratic Socialists of America, said the results showed that the growing pull of the left is \u201cnot just about Philly or Denver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople want that same change for us here in Michigan,\u201d said Tobe, a member of the group\u2019s metro Detroit chapter. \u201cThe reality is it does resonate with working people everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed does not identify as a democratic socialist, and he was not endorsed by the DSA, whose ascendance powered the rise of Zohran Mamdani and then several House candidates this year, including McKinney in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>But democratic socialists have been drawn to El-Sayed\u2019s candidacy. At a recent rally for him in Saginaw, the co-founder of the local DSA chapter, Anthony Castillo, grabbed a marker and scrawled out his hopes on a big \u201cWhat do you dream?\u201d banner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUN-RIG the system,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the system is rigged against the hardworking, the blue collar and the middle class,\u201d Castillo said in an interview. \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for the workers, the millionaires and billionaires wouldn\u2019t have their wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DSA\u2019s national arm <a href=\"https:\/\/electoral.dsausa.org\/dsa-national-endorsement-criteria\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/electoral.dsausa.org\/dsa-national-endorsement-criteria\/\">endorses only<\/a> candidates who publicly identify as democratic socialists and embrace the organization\u2019s controversial platform, which calls for abolishing the Senate, prisons and police. El-Sayed and Lawrence won\u2019t be running with that more polarizing label in swing districts.<\/p>\n<p>A clearer test for democratic socialists in a swing district may come in neighboring Wisconsin, where the DSA-backed state Rep. Francesca Hong is the front-runner in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary for governor and has drawn heavy skepticism from top Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Next Tuesday\u2019s elections also feature a Democratic Senate primary in Minnesota, pitting centrist Rep. Angie Craig against the more liberal Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>Yet those distinctions between democratic socialists, progressives and liberals don\u2019t matter much to Republicans who are casting Democrats indiscriminately as radicals, socialists or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/05\/gop-increasingly-mentions-communism-socialists-win-democratic-races\/\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/05\/gop-increasingly-mentions-communism-socialists-win-democratic-races\/\">communists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers, the GOP Senate nominee, called El-Sayed an extremist leading a movement grounded in ideological fanaticism.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R), who chairs the GOP\u2019s Senate campaign arm, wrote on social media Tuesday that El-Sayed is \u201cthe most radical Democrat Senate nominee ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis support of terrorist organizations, socialist policies, and the defunding of law enforcement makes him dangerous and ultimately disqualified from serving,\u201d Scott wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of attacks didn\u2019t seem to be much of a concern to the crowd at El-Sayed\u2019s watch party Tuesday night, where a local democratic socialist official rallied attendees as they waited for results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he too far left for Michigan?\u201d Detroit City Council member Denzel McCampbell asked them.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=8712\">Why did the polls miss so badly in Michigan?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo!\u201d the crowd yelled back in unison.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Michigan\u2019s primaries, the most progressive candidates won out, extending their movement into the Rust Belt and setting up a major test in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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