Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won election Wednesday to the U.S. Senate representing Michigan, defeating Republican Mike Rogers. El-Sayed, a former public health official, will succeed Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, who is retiring. El-Sayed will be the country’s first Muslim senator.
Ain’t that a headline to bring a tear of joy to your eye
And Haley Stevens gets the privilege of nuking her career for absolutely nothing.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, and its affiliated groups have spent close to $30 million backing Stevens — their largest investment ever in a single race — as they seek to defeat progressive favorite Abdul El-Sayed in the Aug. 4 primary
She’s basically a puppet in it for the money
““I don’t care how he pronounces my name,” El-Sayed said in response. “I don’t even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me ‘senator’ after November. I will be Senator Mohamed to you, bro.””
I live in Northwest Ohio so the Ohio-Michigan rivalry is very deeply engrained. Even when he razzed vance about swearing him in in January…I lolled hard when he said “Wolverine 1, Buckeye 0”
The speech was honestly one of the most relatable things I’ve heard in a long time.
I’ve been voting for 30 years, never seen anything like tonight. Texas, Iowa, Kansas, South Carolina, and Maine were inconceivable just one war ago.
Mississippi is in play
It’s truly fucked up that we can measure things in wars. That applies to the entire world.
Getting Obama vibes from his victory speech.
And he played 2pac’s Changes as his walk off music. Think that’s a first for a senator
He comes off as more sincere than Obama, I hope he is
He is incredibly articulate in exactly the correct ways when called for. Yeah, his tone is close to Obama here for sure, but he actually is speaking in just plain vernacular. It’s incredibly relatable.
This is a wonderful result
I hope he has a good security team, because there will be a lot of pissed off bigots with firearms
I think there were some pissed off bigots with firearms that ended up voting for him too, once they realized how badly they screwed up their vote last election.
Bigots more often than not have less than half a brain, but one thing you can count on is them being angry.
Fuck APIC your money wont beat us
Edited to fix a typo in the title.
