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.”
Already kicked out of the party.
This is the chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
This should be top. Already rightfully expelled.
All the people bellyaching at the top should take note- blue no matter who and proven.
blue no matter who and proven.
This seems like a stark rebuke of the above. The national party has been absolutely toxic towards El-Sayud since he filled to run.
Vote Who Chuck Schumer Tells You Too, is more like it
Finally the dems actually kick people out for some of this shit
What are the actual consequences of this though? Michigan is an open primary state. Democratic party membership is meaningless.
Can he do that? Like he has that power? I’m glad if he does of course, I’m just kind of surprised that’s within his power to just declare.
So basically what the establishment democrats did to Mamdani here in NYC. Gotcha.
Democrats would rather dance with Nazis than back progressives in their own party
You know who dances with Nazis?
Nazis.
Mahmdani and El Sayed are both democrats.
The DNC/establishment democrats need to go, they do not form coalitions in good faith.
edit obviously vote for al-sayed regardless
Man, you guys are trying real fucking hard. Known shitbag has sour grapes and turns and suddenly she represents 85% of the democratic party.
- Get Republicans and Neo-Nazis out.
- Fix Citizens United
- Fix the Neolib/Corporate part of the Democratic Party.
One comes first. Haley Stevens being a shitbag doesn’t change that.
I would love nothing more than for Republicans to be rendered irrelevant and for the two parties to be replaced by the DSA and the neolibs. Just be a little strategic in how you go about that. (I worry you are being strategic, and it’s not for the benefit of DSA.)
Yeah but I gotta feed the kids so I can’t do politics, which means someone else has to fight for their future. /s
No endorsement from Gov. Hochel.
No endorsement from either NY Senator.
Disgraced former Govener Andrew Cuomo running as a spoiler candidate.
Andrew Cuomo being endorsed by Trump in the 11th hour of the election over the Republican candidate.
Yep.
establishment democrats
The problem with phrasing it like that, is the neoliberals can lose NY state party just like they lost the DNC.
“Establishment” is just who controls the party, which can be changed.
NY, Florida, Maine, California, there’s a bunch of state parties that neoliberals control. But as more progressive get elected, the more say they have in who leads those parties.
“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.”
Wow what a shitty reason to endorse someone.
Childish as fuck.
Edit: also, am I crazy or is El-Sayed not even a leftist? Dude is literally a landlord. So much of this is just veiled racism.
The Overton Window in this country is so fucked.
I just watched his 60 minute interview and I’m not sure. He definitely is “on the left” I would say that he is really harping on his faith so I think he’s trying to look more central. He was dancing all over the place and bending over backwards to justify his positions without saying he’s a socialist. He kept saying explicitly he was a capitalist which like no, bro you’re a worker just like everyone else who isn’t a big dog running industries but I think he’s doing that bullshit pander to the middle thing that Dems love to do so it’s really hard to pin down where he lands. Given the options in his race I’d vote for him in a heartbeat but I didn’t finish the interview especially impressed and several times I was thinking I could have given a better answer than he did… idk he’s the one to win that race but I can’t really tell where on the left he falls
The guy and his wife own several rental properties. Including one in Dubai if reports are to be believed.
Obviously, he’s the best of the available candidates in that race, I just take issue with him constantly being labeled a leftist. It just seems like more racheting of the Overton Window to the right.
He has clarified when asked that he is a capitalist. But there’s a solid enough contingent of the American electorate that thinks tax systems are a leftwing policy.
I mean he says he supports medicare for all, but yeah could be a center right politician in Canada
It’s uncanny how similar she is to jd vance with the way she talks to her body movements and even the face. Is this some alien infiltrators lmao
She says she is doing it for “country”. Everyone thinks that country is Israel.
I’m very confused on what’s happening here. Not that another establishment not-Democrat went full mask off, but of the odd timeline of this.
So this woman lost the primary months ago to Abdul El-Sayed. She stays quiet and/or pushes milquetoast support for the progressive Democrat for those months, even though it’s clear she’s full on AIPAC supported and has a conservative husband.
Then these last few days, well after a lot of Michigan already voted with early polls, she decides “fuck it we ball” and outwardly and directly decides to endorse the GOP candidate on the ballot? Did something happen behind the scenes? Did she have a mental break? The strategy makes no sense from a sabetour perspectives behind the scenes (she went mask off too early… 2 days too early) nor from a campaign perspective (she went mask off WAY too late for it to matter for the GOP candidate). This can’t have been strategic.
Israel came to her in a dream again.
Oh right. It’s that lady.
when you follow the $, there’s a connection between her husband and $ getting funneled to collins. he appears the be the one calling the shots not her
Wow Michigan really dodged a bullet when they primaried her. Good job, guys.
Fetterman Energy
When I stopped laughing because El-Sayed has inadvertently flushed out another pretender just by being himself, I realized I wasn’t surprised.
Stevens’ fiance has been stumping for Mike Rogers all along, and while people of differing politics can and do get married, it takes a LOT of passion to go out and actually work for a candidate, which he did and still is. For me, it’s not so much a red flag as a question mark.
But then there was the ad that attacked her own side, and its follow-up of her desperately trying to make something out of nothing, low-key harassing El-Sayed until he simply disinvited her to his upcoming event.
And now, the day of his event and standing outside, she’s thrown off her cloak and shown her real allegiance.
If you look at what she has said and what she has brought, it’s pretty clear she was only ever a Republican in a Dem suit anyway.
tensions boiled over days before the election
Yeah, no. That’s a very fact neutral, implied “both sides” way of saying she kept trying to throw El-Sayed off his game until he threw her out, and now she’s just attacking openly. Not a lot has really changed here.
Now I’m wondering how much cash I’d bet on finding out her campaign was planned to this end all along: to either win and then switch sides, or to lose explosively before the election in such a way that it cratered her opponent’s chances.
In the end it doesn’t look like she’s succeeded in anything at all, beyond showing her own true colors.
This kind of political fraud / betrayal should count as some form of treason.
Zionist occupation of the Democratic party has a long history that does not seem to be very well understood by the general public.
church service with him.
uninvited to a joint event
defeated the congresswoman … in primary.
Sounds like sour grapes and othering.
Yes, I was curious to how much was ‘sour grapes’’ -that she did not have the maturity, or dedication to democracy, to at the very least just shut her stupid mouth- or she is simply pro radical Zionist. It could be a combination of both. I hope the democratic party permanently 86’s her from the party, as there is plenty of room in the republican party for fragile ego’s; egos that prefer retribution for bring defeated, to the good of the people of their own country. She is a spectacular, POS.
Wow, she might have either fucked over her own party out of spite or fucked over her own political career.
She’ll have a consulting job on the reich-wing media circuit in no time. Her career will be fine.
I get it was a bitter primary. I get she has strong feelings about certain foreign policy issues.
But holy shit, she will be unwelcomed anywhere in Democratic politics forever with this BS. If El-Sayed wins, maybe people will forget in a few years. But if he narrowly loses, she will be a pariah forever. Has she deluded herself into thinking everyone will still talk to her and this will be just a minor point of disagreement they just avoid in their chats?
And it will surprise nobody that she’ll go independent and make friends with all the right wing fascists just like John Fetterman. It’s all about her and the attention she’s going to get from it.
Just normal neoliberal shit…
People really forget about Hillary’s PUMA movement in 08, this is literally what they do everytime they lose to someone left of them in a primary.
This is a career building move what are you talking about?
We need to start arresting these zioNazis for treason and crimes against humanity
The beginning of her right wing grift shift. I can’t wait to hear about her visit to Tim Pool’s Loserdome.
I will never understand how, so called, Americans will unabashedly suck up to Israel this hard.
Killing Jews is wrong.
Killing Palestinians is equally wrong.
Knowing how Israel has been mistreating Palestinians for years makes me wonder how any government would continue to support Israel with anything beyond food and medicine?Jews have been allowed to kill Palestinians for thousands of years.
Just ask the Amalekites. Or the residents of Jericho.
Democrats would rather lose the Senate to the Grand Old Pedophiles than support El-Sayed.
