Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.
Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for Donald Trump’s backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she was uninvited to a joint event the same day with El-Sayed, who defeated the congresswoman by a slim margin in the August primary.
“Our Democratic nominee for Senate said I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away,” Stevens said video announcing the endorsement. “And he’s right. And that’s why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.”
We might have a two-party system, but Democrats and Republicans haven’t always been the two parties. Strategic voting is not “giving up”, nor is support organizations other than the DNC and RNC. You sound quite out of touch with reality.
Plus, two-party systems are generally the result of FPtP voting, and there are a number of better voting systems* being used in elections across the country and under those systems even voting for a 3rd party doesn’t “give power to Republicans”.
*: Basically every voting system is better thatn FPtP, but a cloneproof Condorcet methods eliminate the traditional spoiler effect of a 3rd party on it’s most closely aligned major party.
How are you going to say I’m out of touch with reality then jump into a fantasy world where we somehow have a different voting system than we do? Unless you’re in a very specific region (Alaska for instance) it is all FPTP and all 2 party system.
Third parties will only work in some districts. They are almost always spoilers, though. And acting like it is anything else is playing perfectly into the Republicans hands.
Fact is, you say DNC and RNC haven’t always been the 2 parties, but it has been this way an incredibly long time. It is not changing. What has changed over time is the beliefs of the parties.
Only realistic option is to vote for the democrats that represent what you want and hope enough will get elected that they can reshape the party.
Are you even reading my replies? You keep accusing me of doing things that I’m no where close to doing. Please take care of yourself.
Pretty non specific reply… Nothing I said was incorrect though.