Mike Daboski
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first heard Jul 2026
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But probably the most closely watched race was for Democratic Senate in Michigan.
Dr. Abdul Syed, a progressive, won over moderate Representative Haley Stevens.
The race struck at the core of one of the Democratic Party's key divisions right now, which is America's relationship with Israel.
Now, that may not sound like a kitchen table issue in an election cycle that's been dominated by questions of affordability and the economy.
But in Michigan, it very much is.
Michigan has one of the largest populations of Arab Americans in the country and a huge Jewish population as well.
Issues related to immigration and money in politics also factored hugely into this race, and it all comes as Democrats consider exactly how progressive the party should be headed into the fall.
ABC's Diana Paulson has been tracking all these races for us.
Diana, I want to talk about a lot of these primaries, but let's start with the Michigan Senate.
Also, I had one, but not by a huge margin from what we understand.
Yeah, this was not the night his campaign was looking for.
El-Sayed, the race being called very, very late because he only pulled out about a one-point victory here, winning by under 20,000 votes.
He was hoping that he could run up the vote count a lot more in these areas of deep support for him, Ann Arbor, Western Michigan.
But Haley Stevens was able to turn out a lot of her base.
Black voters, especially in Detroit, meaning that this ended up a closer contest than he was hoping for.
But there is this other factor here, which is that El-Sayed was massively outspent in this race.
Haley Stevens received historically high backing from outside spenders, $60 million from AIPAC blanketing the airwaves across the state.
So it became sort of an issue between Abdul Al-Sayed's turnout effort and Stevens's power of advertising.
Right.
And Al-Sayed, again, an avowed progressive.
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