Katty Kay

And is it more progressive left, which will give fodder to the Republican Party in a traditional way going into 2028?

Is it candidates who are going to particularly appeal to younger voters?

Are they going to get younger voters to turn out?

I think we'll learn a lot about the direction of politics and it could be we're in a kind of a sea change moment where being an established candidate, being the incumbent candidate may not be the guarantee of re-election.

if you're older and have been there for a long time, in the way that it was 10 years ago, because you do have a new generation of people coming into politics.

Quickly, on the Michigan race, this is a very interesting one.

You've got the incumbent Democratic senator, Gary Peters, who doesn't want to seek a third term.

Republicans think this means they have a chance of catching that up.

You've got a primary race between three people

Hayley Stevens, a local representative who is the establishment favorite.

You've got Mallory McMorrow, also a local politician who's more of a centrist, trying to kind of position herself as the everywoman in the Democratic Party, trying to appeal to progressives and people in the center.

And then you have got the very progressive

former Wayne County health director, Abdul El-Sayed, who is also being seen in a way a bit like Graham Platner, but I think there are big differences between these two candidates.

But he's very progressive on the left.

He's very opposed to aid to Israel, very opposed to what Israel has done in Gaza.

Israel is a huge issue in the state of Michigan.

because of the big Muslim population and a big Jewish population in Detroit as well.

It's almost like Israeli politics is a proxy for Michigan politics at the moment.

But I think if El-Sayed wins the primary there, which is in August, you're going to have Republicans saying, this is great.

This means that we will take Michigan because El-Sayed is too progressive