Current Affairs is pleased to announce that public health expert Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has been nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan. Our magazine has covered Dr. El-Sayed’s work many times over the years, and he is a former contributor to our pages and our YouTube channel. This victory has significant ramifications for American politics, as a remarkable demonstration of progressives’ political power. El-Sayed prevailed despite tens of millions of dollars being spent by AIPAC in order to stop him. If he wins in November, it will be a powerful rebuke to those who claim that left politics cannot win in “purple” states.
No congressional candidate in Democratic history ever had as much outside money dumped on them in one primary as Abdul El-Sayed. But El-Sayed has now survived the onslaught in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Barely. The Bernie Sanders-endorsed champion of Medicare for All defeated Rep. Haley Stevens by about a one-point margin on Tuesday, according to […]