‘Dearborn vs. Detroit’ proves how Abdul el Sayed cut into Stevens’s black vote: Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher said Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed’s victory in the primary exposed a broader coalition than just rural and progressive voters.
“It’s not just rural voters,” Doescher said on CNN’s Group Chat Monday. “He’s appealing to the black voters that overwhelmingly went for Haley Stevens.”
Doescher’s comments come as el Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. El Sayed led with 48.5% of the vote to Stevens’s 47.5% in a primary that pitted the party’s progressive wing against its more moderate establishment.
Doescher said the race highlighted sharp geographic and demographic divides within Michigan’s Democratic electorate, with Stevens performing strongly among black, noncollege-educated, and Detroit-area voters during the campaign.
Doescher also described the race as effectively a “Dearborn versus the Detroit election,” pointing to the different coalitions that backed the two candidates.
“My husband’s from Michigan, and he told me beforehand, he said, ‘This will be the Dearborn versus the Detroit election,’ and that is largely what the primary looked like,” Doescher said.
Doescher then argued that former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), the GOP nominee , could be “uniquely positioned” to perform well against el Sayed, given his statewide performance.
Abdul el Sayed’s victory has intensified national attention on the Democratic Party’s ideological divisions, with the former public health official backed by progressive figures including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
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