What Progressive Primary Wins Mean for November
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It's Thursday, August 6th, and Democrats have a new data point to chew on. We start here. In Michigan, the primaries may be over, but the race for that Senate seat continues. This is going to be a much, much tougher race than even this uphill climb of a primary. What's next for Abdul Al-Sayed's campaign and what his win means for Democrats? This was supposed to be a simple refurb job.
I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro, really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro.
How a D.C. landmark is reflecting a major division between the president and his longtime ally. And it's not a virus or a bacteria, but it does have public health officials on alert. We're seeing that in particular with funguses like this, where there's just not drugs to treat them. What you need to know about the fungus among us. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Mike Daboski. Hey there, Brad's still out on vacation, so I'm running the show today. This week was the latest round of primaries in a bunch of high-profile midterm races across the country in states like Kansas, Missouri, Washington, and Virginia. But probably the most closely watched race was for Democratic Senate in Michigan.
We knew that this was going to be a close race. Turns out it takes a long time to count some votes in Michigan.
Dr. Abdul Syed, a progressive, won over moderate Representative Haley Stevens.
What did the Michigan Democratic primary results mean for the upcoming Senate race?
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.
I just can't say how grateful I am to have earned the votes that we got. We took on a machine.
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.
I am tough as nails when Michigan is being challenged right now.
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.
We didn't know that they were going to outspend us $11 to $1.
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. He's going to be facing Republican Mike Rogers in the fall. Given this narrow win that we saw this week, do you think that changes the calculus for Al-Sayed in the general election? I think it does. You already saw him pivoting a little bit more towards moderation heading into this election. But I think he was hoping that he would be emerging from this as the progressive hope of this country, of showing that progressivism can win big in a swing state.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:56
2
What did the Michigan Democratic primary results mean for the upcoming Senate race?
1:56–5:40
3
How might Abdul Al‑Sayed’s narrow primary win reshape the general‑election strategy in Michigan?
5:40–8:42
4
Why is the progressive vs. moderate divide in Michigan’s Senate race important for national politics?
8:42–12:29
5
What’s the story behind the reflecting‑pool vandalism case and why could Trump fire Jeanine Pirro?
12:29–17:40
6
How did the reflecting‑pool meeting with Pirro, Trump, and Doug Burgum unfold and what are its implications?
17:40–21:38
7
Why are health officials warning about the rising threat of Candida auris fungal infections?
21:38–24:07