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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrown her support behind Abdul El-Sayed, the doctor and progressive Democrat seeking the party’s nomination in Michigan’s closely watched US Senate race.
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The prevailing candidate will represent the party in November’s US midterm elections, with Democrats looking to flip control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, away from Republicans. Obtaining a majority in the upper chamber is widely considered to be the tougher challenge, and retaining seats like Michigan is seen as critical to Democrats’ wider bid to regain control of the Senate.
El-Sayed’s populist economic platform includes banning tax incentives for companies such as Amazon, imposing new taxes on billionaires, eliminating medical debt and strengthening anti-monopoly laws to curb corporate price-gouging. He has also called for an end to “blank check” military aid to Israel and other countries.
Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement marks her first in a competitive US Senate primary during this midterm cycle. However, it is not her first time endorsing the progressive candidate. In 2018, fresh off her upset over Representative Joe Crowley in the New York House primary, Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Michigan to boost El-Sayed in his long-shot bid for governor. He lost the race to Democrat Gretchen Whitmer.
El-Sayed welcomed the support, writing on X: “AOC has spent her career taking on the powerful on behalf of everyday people, and she has shown all of us what courageous, smart, values-driven leadership looks like. I’m deeply honored to earn her endorsement. Onward to victory.”
So far, NewYork, Colorado and the midwest are showing penetration into status quo Dem political middle road inner party yuck. Reform will happen, or not, now or later. Hope endures. Medicare for all could happen in my lifetime. May I live so long.
Minnesota has an August primary, so it will be as it is, no trend setting.