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A decade\u2019s worth of grudges and feuds between the Democratic establishment and the insurgent left is coming to a head in one election this year: Michigan\u2019s Senate primary.<\/p>\n

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The contest between Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed has somehow unearthed every fault line that\u2019s divided the two factions over the years \u2014 from gender and racial politics, to Israel and Gaza, to questions of electability and fair play, to money in politics, and much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On one side there\u2019s Stevens, a four-term House member who is the preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment \u2014 and of AIPAC, which has spent nearly $30 million to support her campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the other is El-Sayed, a former public health official who\u2019s been backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and their network of supporters and fans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the race has quickly gone beyond just them and become about something bigger \u2014 the national struggle for influence in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is the quintessential contest between the establishment wing of the Democratic Party and the economically populist wing,\u201d said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of the left group Our Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In contrast, Jonathan Cowan, president of the center-left group Third Way, argued that nominating El-Sayed \u2014 a \u201csuper extreme candidate who will alienate lots of voters in the middle\u201d \u2014 is a dangerous risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In this one race, the Democratic factions are relitigating the 2016 presidential primary, the 2020 presidential primary, and several major controversies of the past few years, all at once. And whoever wins will have to find a way to somehow unite the party and win a competitive general election against presumptive Republican nominee Mike Rogers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On gender and racial politics, we\u2019re doing 2016 again<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When Sanders challenged Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential nomination, her supporters frequently implied he had blind spots related to gender and race. They argued, for instance, that certain criticisms of Clinton (and remarks by Sanders) were sexist, and that Sanders\u2019s poor performance with Black voters demonstrated the limits of his appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The discourse also sometimes focused on so-called \u201cBernie Bros\u201d \u2014 online Sanders supporters who, critics argued, directed toxic abuse and vitriol toward people not in his camp. Sanders\u2019s backers argued that the accusations of sexism were themselves a dishonest and inaccurate smear to distract from Clinton\u2019s own shortcomings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All of this is happening again now in Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On gender, a comment from El-Sayed a few weeks back \u2014 he said Stevens was unable to \u201cstring together two coherent sentences\u201d \u2014 was criticized by the Stevens camp as sexist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then, last week, a video of an enthusiastic speech by Stevens on the campaign trail went viral as online El-Sayed supporters mocked her diction and delivery, viewing her way of speaking as self-evidently ridiculous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Seeking to tamp down this behavior, El-Sayed posted Friday that the way \u201cpeople online\u201d were making fun of Stevens \u201cfor things that have nothing to do with her policies\u201d was \u201cunkind and unhelpful.\u201d He also told Vox\u2019s America, Actually<\/em> podcast that the accusations of him being disrespectful to women have gotten back to his daughter, and been hurtful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, on race, a poll last week shows Black Democrats splitting 67 percent for Stevens, and 21 percent for El-Sayed. Days later, the Congressional Black Caucus PAC endorsed Stevens. Just like Clinton in 2016, Stevens is hoping support among Black voters who are longtime stalwarts of the Democratic base will be enough to carry her to victory. And just like Sanders in 2016 and 2020, El-Sayed is facing questions about whether the party\u2019s left vanguard can expand its support beyond white, college-educated voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe progressive brand really, really underperforms with Black voters all around the country,\u201d said Adrian Hemond of the Democratic advocacy firm Grassroots Midwest. \u201cI think it\u2019s worth Democrats, media, and people in the nonprofit blob asking themselves why that is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The establishment vs. insurgent tension, and the Obama of it all<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In both of Sanders\u2019s presidential runs, his team griped about the behavior of the Democratic establishment, arguing that they weren\u2019t truly playing fair. For instance, they pointed to how the DNC initially scheduled very few debates for the 2016 presidential contenders, arguing the supposedly neutral committee was in fact trying to help the frontrunner, Clinton, by limiting attention on her opponents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To Sanders\u2019s supporters, the bitterest pill was the perceived late intervention of former President Barack Obama into the 2020 campaign just as Sanders appeared well-positioned to win the nomination. (Days before the crucial Super Tuesday primaries, two other candidates, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden. Obama was publicly neutral, but privately called Biden and Buttigieg during this key period, raising speculation about his role.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Michigan, again, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is officially neutral, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has long been understood to favor Stevens, and reportedly has privately asked donors to back her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Obama, too, has become a flashpoint. An AIPAC-linked group has spent millions on an ad showing Obama praising Stevens \u2014 even though he has not endorsed her in this race. The praise is from comments Obama made during Stevens\u2019s first House campaign, in 2018. (Stevens had worked on his presidential task force to rescue the auto industry during the Great Recession.)<\/p>\n

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El-Sayed\u2019s supporters have argued that this is an attempt to mislead Michigan voters into thinking Stevens has Obama\u2019s backing. \u201cIt is disgusting that AIPAC \u2014 which spent tens of millions attacking Obama \u2014 is now spending like crazy to lie and suggest he endorsed Haley Stevens,\u201d Ben Rhodes, a former Obama White House official who supports El-Sayed, posted on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Others suspect that Obama does in fact tacitly support Stevens, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s letting the ad stand without clarifying things. (El-Sayed thought Obama was too \u201ccentrist\u201d and \u201cmiddle of the road,\u201d he told Vox in 2017.) And yet again, people are fighting over 2016: Some Stevens supporters point out that Sanders used footage of Obama praising him in a 2020 primary ad despite the senator\u2019s own criticism of the former president.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Israel\/Gaza, AIPAC, antisemitism, money in politics, Hasan Piker, etc\u2026<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Of course, the issue that has come up repeatedly in tense Democratic primaries this cycle \u2014 Israel \u2014 is present in this race in a major way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Many on the left argue that the war in Gaza contributed to former Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s defeat by disillusioning some of her potential supporters and dissuading them from turning out. The evidence that this phenomenon occurred in significant numbers due to Gaza specifically is thin. But it arguably may have been a factor in Michigan, where 2 percent of the population is Muslim and Trump worked hard to court disaffected voters with vague promises to end the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here, Stevens is an unapologetically pro-Israel candidate who wants to continue US military aid to the country and does not believe Israel committed genocide in Gaza. (She said during a Hanukkah event once that \u201cIsrael comes to me in my dreams.\u201d) El-Sayed, in contrast, has been sharply critical of Israel throughout this race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The center-left group Third Way has spent months attacking El-Sayed for campaigning with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, arguing that comments of Piker\u2019s \u2014 that \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11,\u201d and that a certain sect of Israeli Orthodox Jews was \u201cinbred\u201d \u2014 are un-American and antisemitic. (Piker has said he calls lots of different groups he dislikes inbred.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, Stevens has been the beneficiary of that nearly $30 million in AIPAC-linked spending \u2014 a topic she generally tries to avoid discussing. The ads in question don\u2019t talk about Israel at all and instead praise Stevens on other issues. \u201cIt is just a clear indication of where the base of the party is right now that AIPAC has to continually do this spending through their allied outside groups,\u201d Dani Negrete of Indivisible, a progressive group backing El-Sayed, told me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Electability and the question of: who can\u2019t win?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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After a decade of factional squabbling, the left and the mainstream factions have each honed their talking points for why, when a Democrat loses the general election, it\u2019s the other faction\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To the establishment, left candidates are risky bets: They\u2019ve taken positions that may alienate swing voters and are less dependable than candidates with longer electoral pedigrees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In endorsing Stevens this month, Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) warned they needed someone who was \u201cfully vetted.\u201d El-Sayed\u2019s supporters viewed these and other remarks from Stevens supporters as baselessly linking their candidate to Graham Platner, who dropped out of his race in Maine over sexual assault allegations that he denies. However, unlike Platner, who was plucked from obscurity, El-Sayed has been a political figure for nearly a decade and faced significant media scrutiny already.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another version of the critique is more about whether El-Sayed\u2019s policy positions \u2014 for instance, his past support for defunding the police, and his backing of Medicare-for-all \u2014 are too far left for this swing state in the general election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, the left\u2019s argument for why establishment candidates flop is that they fail to excite the base and stimulate turnout. Therefore, they claim, El-Sayed is the safer choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lately, this argument has focused on Israel and Gaza. Left commentators argue that the Biden administration\u2019s support of Israel and failure to stop what they call a genocide in Gaza was a major \u2014 perhaps the major \u2014 reason Harris lost in 2024, because part of the Democratic base was disillusioned and didn\u2019t turn out. So, some on the left have suggested, if Stevens is the nominee, Democrats are risking the seat by disillusioning the same voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The mirror of this argument, from the establishment, blames the left for causing<\/em> this disillusionment. By criticizing rival Democrats in harsh terms and casting them as pawns of special interests, they prime their voters to sit out the general election after their own candidates fail to win the nomination. \u201cBernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president,\u201d famed Democratic consultant James Carville said last week, arguing this was because Sanders convinced his own supporters the Democratic Party was corrupt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This fight has played out in miniature in Michigan. Stevens has accused El-Sayed of undermining Democrats in 2024 by backing the \u201cUncommitted\u201d movement, which sought to protest Biden\u2019s Israel policy in the primaries. El-Sayed, conscious of this criticism, has gone out of his way to emphasize his early support for Harris in 2024, in contrast to others who sat out the race. But he\u2019s also warned that the wrong Senate candidate could recreate the conditions that led to her loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, a post from one El-Sayed supporter that he would not vote for Stevens in the general election went viral. \u201cThe Democratic Party needs to be anti-AIPAC, not pro-AIPAC, and it only happens if candidates like Haley Stevens don\u2019t win in general elections,\u201d Adeeb Hafeez posted on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The next day \u2014 after critics argued this could lead to an even bigger conservative Supreme Court majority \u2014 Hafeez walked it back a bit. He posted that he \u201cmay hold my nose and end up voting for\u201d Stevens after all in the general if she advances \u2014 but that he\u2019d \u201cbe very uncomfortable in doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The exchange underscored the challenge for Democrats in coming together after the primary. No matter who wins, they\u2019ll carry the scars of not only this race, but election after election pitting left-wing candidates against moderates, each of which have left behind bruised feelings and mutual suspicion.<\/p>\n

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