Krystal Ball

Now, there was also a critical attorney general race at this convention between the Oakland County

was kind of, the Oakland County prosecutor was the kind of, McDonald was her name, Karen McDonald, she was actually a progressive prosecutor when she first ran, I think Soros-backed and in that wing, but this time was known as the establishment candidate

had the support of all of these kind of Michigan Board of Regents people who, if you remember, during the 2024 encampments, worked with Dana Nessel to smear and then try to prosecute a whole bunch of these, with felonies, a bunch of these student protesters.

That fell apart.

Dana Nessel then came under a lot of criticism for that, and then it created this giant thing where...

Remember her fight that she had with Rashida Tlaib and Jake Tapper.

And so that candidate lost, that prosecutor lost the attorney general nomination.

But even worse for them, this guy Jordan Acker, who was one of the leading kind of regents pushing to have these students prosecuted, was challenged by a Dearborn attorney, Amir Makhled, who in the days leading up to the race,

was the Detroit News and others came after him because he had retweeted Candace Owens calling Israelis demons.

And what they said was praise for Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah.

And he beat Acker at this convention.

Wow.

So now Acker himself is facing this massive controversy from this Guardian report where a bunch of his like really foul Slack messages emerged.

Just kind of gross stuff across the board.

So that certainly hurt Acker as well.

But yeah, it's not enough to like...

link somebody to like Hezbollah and Candace Owens and knock them out.

He still knocked out this border region candidate at this very convention that you guys saw there.

Yeah, yeah, I think that's right.

And that was such a pivotal race too, because Andy Levin was a synagogue president, called himself a liberal Zionist, but would always defend Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar against charges of anti-Semitism and saying, no, they have legitimate, serious criticisms of Israel that need to be listened to.