In the final days of the US Senate campaign in Michigan, Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leading in polls, winning praise for taking Donald Trump and his Republican opponent to task with incisive humor, and providing a clear closing message in evocative ads.

But his former Democratic primary opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), said Friday that while she reiterated this week her decision to support El-Sayed in next Tuesday’s election—a plan not shared by her fiancé, who publicly announced he would vote for Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers—she was demanding concessions from the Democratic candidate, in a statement that sought to tie him to a recent online ad by an outside group.

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    6 days ago

    If these midterms lead to a series of progressive politicians and policy being passed I really hope the Trump voters realise they caused it, they could have kept the maniac out of office and continued with more center politicians but this choices might swing the country further left than they could have ever imagined

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      6 days ago

      I love your optimism. Unfortunately, the Dem Party is led by neoliberals. Neoliberals are conservatives who pretend to hold some progressive views, but actually only represent their wealthy conservative donors.

      We will not see widespread progress in the U.S. while we are still infested with conservatives (including neoliberals). There is simply no peaceful solution to an infestation of evil.

      This is why they say freedom isn’t free. We will need to get our hands dirty and finish Sherman’s work to be free of conservatism.

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      5 days ago

      MAGA has made me swing much farther left than I ever was before. They turned an Unaffiliated Center Right Independent into a Radical Leftist. I want Socialism to take over the Democrat Party, I want all MAGAs prohibited from holding office under the 14th Amendment/ Section 3, and I want MAGA to be declared a National Security Threat, and prohibited from existing.

      That’s been my response to MAGA.