{"id":1957,"date":"2026-08-06T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2026-08-06T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:17:07","slug":"el-sayed-on-track-to-win-us-senate-primary-overcoming-aipacs-30-million-onslaught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed on Track to Win US Senate Primary, Overcoming AIPAC\u2019s $30 Million Onslaught"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yves here. Just wait for the hysteria about progressives (who will be called socialists and worse) to shift to a higher register as a result of El-Sayed\u2019s probable success. The Hill has made a call too: El-Sayed beats Stevens to take on Rogers in battleground Michigan Senate race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even though experts expect a very hard battle in the general election, I wonder if the magnitude of AIPAC opposition to El-Sayed will have a Streisand effect, in the form of attracting out-of-district donations. <\/p>\n

By Jake Johnson, a staff writer at Common Dreams. Originally published at Common Dreams<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Abdul El-Sayed was on track Wednesday to narrowly win the Democratic nomination for US Senate<\/a> in Michigan, overcoming tens of millions of dollars in outside spending by AIPAC<\/a> and other special interests that sought to smear<\/a>the progressive epidemiologist and boost his opponent, US Rep. Haley Stevens.<\/p>\n

NBC declared El-Sayed the winner<\/a>, but The Associated Press said the race was too close to call with over 90% of ballots counted. As of early Wednesday morning, El-Sayed was leading Stevens by roughly 21,000 votes<\/a>\u2014or just over one percentage point.<\/p>\n

In his election night speech, El-Sayed stopped short of declaring victory but celebrated the \u201cmovement that we were able to inspire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAcross that movement that we built, there was an inspiration in the idea that we could take our government back. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people instead of government of the corporations, by the special interests, and for the billionaires,\u201d El-Sayed told supporters. \u201cAnd because you had the audacity to believe in that, you know that the billionaires, the corporations, and the special interests, they weren\u2019t going to give up lightly. We all knew they were going to spend their money. We didn\u2019t know they were going to spend $70 million of their money. We didn\u2019t know that they were going to outspend us $11 to $1. And yet we\u2019re still standing.\u201d<\/p>\n