{"id":5471,"date":"2026-07-27T08:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:39:51","slug":"michigan-dems-have-a-chance-to-slap-down-the-soaring-far-left-and-save-their-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5471","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Dems have a chance to slap down the soaring far left and save their party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Aug. 4, Michigan voters have a chance to help save the Democratic Party by choosing Rep. Haley Stevens over Abdul El-Sayed as Dems\u2019 nominee for the US Senate.<\/p>\n

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The far left has been on a roll in primaries across the nation, not just in deep-red House districts but in some statewide contests; now is the time for sanity to triumph.<\/p>\n

No question that El-Sayed is the left\u2019s choice: He\u2019s endorsed by Bernie Sanders, AOC and the party\u2019s entire Israel-hating wing, as well as the local Working Families Party.<\/p>\n

An MD who never pursued a license to practice medicine, he\u2019s spent his adult life in academia and government; aside from demonizing the Jewish state, his core issue is Medicare for All, the Sanders prescription for nationalized health care, and he also calls to abolish ICE.<\/p>\n

Stevens is a different kind of apparatchik, working in party and politics-adjacent policy jobs for her entire career.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s always been solidly pro-Israel, while emphasizing other issues like support for restoring America\u2019s industrial might and other centrist Democratic priorities; she\u2019s endorsed by establishment figures such as Sen. Chuck Schumer \u2014 and just got a key endorsement from popular Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.<\/p>\n

Most important: El-Sayed is utterly vile.<\/p>\n

After the foiled terrorist attack on a Jewish pre-school at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield this spring, he staged a press conference with extremist podcaster Hasan Piker to justify the atrocity: \u201cHurt people do hurt people, and the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here.\u201d <\/p>\n

This, because the would-be killer was Lebanese and Israel was fighting to defend itself from Hezbollah.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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June saw him take the stage at the opening of a local mosque with Fadhel Al-Sahlani, a radical imam and Holocaust denier operating out of Queens, to offer \u201chearty congratulations\u201d to the mosque\u2019s new imam Hassan al-Qazwini, who has eulogized Hezbollah fighters and made openly antisemitic remarks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Obama-bro podcast \u201cPod Save America,\u201d he said he\u2019d \u201cvote for Hamas over Israel every single time\u201d; his campaign sent out a fundraising email on the second anniversary of Oct. 7 falsely suggesting that Israel started the violence; and on and on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s also a hypocrite, slamming any doctor who refuses to take Medicaid patients as racist when his own wife does precisely that; denouncing the pay gap for black women when he earned far more as Wayne County health director than the black women who had the job before and after him.<\/p>\n

The race is tight: El-Sayed is the national far left\u2019s new great hope after the implosion of Graham Platner in Maine, and the donations are pouring in.<\/p>\n

And while Stevens has more support among traditional Dem groups in Michigan (e.g., blacks and working-class, for starters), El-Sayed unites both the usual lefty white college grads with a large Muslim population.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the moderate Dem\u2019s biggest reason for hope is that Michigan has open primaries, so voters not<\/em> registered as Democrats can turn out to help save the party.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re rooting for her . . . though if El-Sayed gets the nomination, Republican Mike Rogers will have a great chance to win in November, which of course is the other <\/em>way to crush the far left.<\/p>\n

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