Source: The American Prospect
by Eli Day
“‘It just shouldn’t be this hard,’ Abdul El-Sayed, the insurgent candidate for Michigan’s open Senate seat, says to a packed Mumford High School auditorium in Detroit’s northwestern corner. ‘Shouldn’t be this hard to afford a second bag of groceries … to get your kid to a doctor or to pay your taxes and know that that money’s gonna be spent on you and your kids instead of dropping bombs on other people and their kids’. El-Sayed is here with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who’s passing through town on his ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour, and state Rep. Donavan McKinney. El-Sayed is locked in a tight three-way race with establishment picks for Michigan’s open seat, a must-win for Democrats hoping to reclaim the chamber, while McKinney is running to unseat incumbent Democratic Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13), one of the body’s richest members, whom McKinney has called a ‘cardboard cutout of a congressman.’ Sanders has endorsed both.” (05/13/26)