Astead Herndon
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6,554 appearances
61 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2d ago
Astead Herndon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So in our quest to think about American politics beyond the question of Donald Trump, there's no getting around the current fights happening within the Democratic Party.
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And one of the biggest is whether the left-wing anger that has fueled insurgent candidates in New York City and in Colorado applies to places outside of those typically blue areas and in states more important to the midterms and the Electoral College, which is why the Michigan Senate primary is so closely watched.
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More than $40 million have been spent by outside groups on this race already, including nearly $50 million from pro-Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC, who are lining up behind Stevens and against El-Sayed.
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Why?
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Because this race is a proxy war for the Democratic Party, so much so that it comes up all the time, including in my recent conversation with John Cohen, president of the centrist group Third Way.
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He told me last month that he was absolutely certain that El-Sayed was too extreme for the Michigan electorate.
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And he pointed to El-Sayed's relationship with leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker as proof.
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If someone like El-Sayed were to win in Michigan, would you change that too?
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Okay, so we can come back if that happens?
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And Piker, too, was invested in the Michigan Senate race.
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He argued that El-Sayed's rise to frontrunner already proved that there was an appetite for what the left is selling around Medicare for All and around shifting the United States' relationship with Israel.
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He says there's more traction for those issues among the Democratic base than the establishment wants to admit.
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To some degree, Piker's right.
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State Senator Mallory McMorrow dropped out of the Michigan Senate race after failing to gain traction.
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Now, El-Sayed is one-on-one with Stevens, who's consolidated the moderate lane and is pushing the electability question.
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And Stevens and her allies are flooding the airwaves.
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A pro-Israel super PAC that's supporting her candidacy recently released a negative ad that implied that El-Sayed has a, quote, history of disrespecting women.
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