John McCormick

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WSJ What’s News · Anti-Trump Sentiment vs. Policy: The Battle for the Midterms · 19 Apr 2026 podcast

really going to give us a good sense for sort of the mindset of Democratic voters.

This Michigan race, the primary is not until August 4th, so it's going to play out all summer.

And it features three major candidates competing to get the nod to fill a seat that's being vacated by Democratic Gary Peters' retirement.

So that race features Representative Haley Stevens.

She's sort of the establishment moderate candidate.

She flipped a GOP House seat in 2018.

She's sort of the kind of candidate that centrists in the Democratic Party say they need more of if they want to win general elections.

And then there's also State Senator Mallory McMorrow.

She's a bit further to the left.

And then the progressive in that race, who is backed by Sanders, is Abdul El-Saeed, and he's the most left-leaning of the three.

And there's concern among centrist Democrats that if...

El-Sahid wins the nomination that, you know, he could struggle in a general election, just be too far to the left for independent voters in Michigan.

But that's going to be a very important race to watch, both from Democratic Party perspective and also just from, you know, do Democrats have a chance of winning the Senate?

This race will be critical in that calculation.

Yeah, I think some of the 2028 prospective presidential candidates are trying to put down some policy markers.

One guy that I follow very closely, Chicago, is Rahm Emanuel.

And he's been somebody who's been very critical of the Democratic Party and says that it's been too fixated on identity politics, has sort of forgotten how to appeal to independent voters and focus on the economy and pocketbook issues that do tend to drive general elections.

And so all of the prospective 2028 candidates, there are definitely to varying degrees showing that they can fight Trump and criticize him and take him on.

I mean, that's sort of a prerequisite to be a Democrat these days.

But a few of them are putting down a lot of policy ideas and talking about how the Democratic Party needs to just talk differently, use fewer acronyms, talk like normal people do, as Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says.

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