Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democrat who narrowly won Michigan’s Senate primary earlier this month, sat down Monday night for what appears to be his first appearance on Jesse Watters Primetime. The setting was deliberate. El-Sayed is now the nominee in a pure toss-up race against former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, a Trump-aligned candidate for the open seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters. Polls remain tight—RealClearPolitics averages show El-Sayed up by less than a point, with individual surveys scattering in both directions—and the contest could help decide control of the Senate.
El-Sayed used the interview to test how his message travels outside the progressive primary electorate. He also made sure to land a few direct shots at Rogers for dodging debates and avoiding the same Fox stage.
Watters opened by pressing El-Sayed on abolishing ICE, a wealth tax on fortunes above $100 million, Medicare for All, the ongoing conflict with Iran, biological males in women’s sports, medical decisions involving minors, and past comments about Sharia law. El-Sayed repeatedly tried to redirect toward gas prices, grocery costs, and health-care affordability, arguing those are the issues Michigan voters actually raise. He defended his progressive economic positions while framing many of the cultural questions as distractions.
This Politico piece captured the night while the Michigan U.S. Senate race was still too close to call and progressives were realizing they hadn’t delivered the blowout many expected.
Yesterday’s Michigan primaries
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly beat moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic Senate primary. The race was far closer than late polls predicted.
In Michigan’s 7th District, Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence won the Democratic House primary after two moderates split the vote.
In the 13th District, democratic socialist Donavan McKinney narrowly unseated incumbent Rep. Shri Thanedar.
Cori Bush’s comeback bid
Former “Squad” member and democratic socialist Cori Bush tried to reclaim the St. Louis-area House seat she lost in 2024. She faced the same opponent who beat her then, incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell.
Bush ran again as a sharp critic of U.S. support for Israel and as a progressive standard-bearer. The race drew heavy outside spending, much of it from pro-Israel groups backing Bell. She lost decisively, roughly 59% to 37%.
It was one of the clearer setbacks for the progressive left on a night that otherwise produced mixed results for that faction.
[VIDEO] Tucker Carlson talks about the response to the ongoing Trucker protest in Canada. One funny thing about this is well if you dont know anything about trucking how can you tell these guys what to do. How do products get to the store shelves for example if no trucker is delivering them? Are you able to replace them?
Of course a lot of this is about the pandemic in some parts of Canada they're doubling down as you might see in the province of Ontario. Also you see Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer who seems to want Canada to clear that bridge outside of Detroit. I'm surprised there aren't more protests of her mandates up there, and she ought to be one of those who will start lifting them as Gov. Pritzker has here.
And the media response is to demonize these truckers or even those who use cryptocurrencies. If you use bitcoin you're a racist, while if you use your nation's currency well you're only helping to fund these officials who keep the mandates going.
I get the feeling one we stop with these mask mandates or vax mandates we still haven't settled down.
Uhhhh, I don't know at this point and feel as if time is running out for Donald Trump as his efforts to flip Michigan is still stalled. A federal court rejected a lawsuit today and the Mich. board of canvassers have voted to certify the Michigan presidential race for Joe Biden.
Three members of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted to certify the results, arguing it was their required duty under the law. Republican Norm Shinkle abstained, alluding to election issues in Detroit and elsewhere.
The decision by board Vice Chairman Aaron Van Langevelde to vote to certify allayed the fears of many that Republican board members would delay formalizing election results, likely pushing the decision to a court and furthering President Donald Trump's efforts to undermine the will of Michigan voters.
"This board must respect the authority entrusted to it and follow the law as written. We must not attempt to exercise power we simply don't have," said Van Langevelde, a staff attorney and policy adviser for the state House Republican Caucus.
Before the meeting, Shinkle had indicated he would not vote to certify. His wife, Mary Shinkle, was one of more than 100 people who filed affidavits in support of a federal lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign alleging misconduct in Detroit.
"Undermine the will of Michigan voters" and perhaps by looking at the votes in Wayne County/Detroit it's also "disenfranchising Black voters". I see a narrative here, that may or may not be true. I think voters are disenfranchised when an election is legit fixed.
Anyway as I said alright time is starting to run out. And I see it's in the news that the federal General Services Administration is about to begin the transition from Trump to Biden by January 20, 2021. I'm sure there are other aggressive pending actions, but it's difficult to see how Trump can flip the electoral vote to his favor at this point.
Last nite, as I went to bed I saw a live feed on my YouTube feed and the title claimed that Trump flipped Michigan. Well, that was a bit of an overstatement as he explained on his live feed that Michigan is now in play because as it turned out in sharing this tweet.
[VIDEO] Wayne County won't certify their results in Michigan if the state board of canvassers follows suit and doesn't certify election results it could pave the way for the Republican controlled Michigan Legislature to select electors. Every state law as far as electors for the Electoral College I'm sure is different and if this works out that way then we have a new ballgame. Then again we'll have to see it's still 2020 you know it's not quite weird, yet.
Oh wait:
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers abruptly changed course Tuesday night and certified the results of the Nov. 3 election after initially deadlocking 2-2 along party lines, which could have delayed the state process for validating pivotal votes.
The deadlock decision had been lauded by Republicans but decried by Democrats. During a lengthy public comment session, the vote was described as a targeted attack on majority-Black Detroit, the largest city in the county and state.
After hours of angry responses from Wayne County residents, the change in course was approved by the two Republican and two Democratic canvassers with the demand that the Secretary of State's office conduct a "comprehensive audit" of precincts with unexplained out-of-balance tallies.
The high-stakes vote, with the eyes of the nation on Michigan's largest county, apparently took place while the video stream for the virtual meeting wasn't working.
[VIDEO] Michigan was the site of a number of protests against the restrictions in place for the coronavirus pandemic. There were dramatic footages of people walking around with assault weapons in and around state gov't buildings there. Thankfully this was before our tumultuous summer around the nation and nothing violent occurred.
I wish I can show you some things about the NFAC groups in Atlanta where they couldn't help but discharge their weapons accidentally and they only injured themselves as a result.
Anyway I could view this alleged crime against the Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer as nothing more than a very seditious act although no those individuals were actually acting against the authority of the State of Michigan who's authority they wished to overthrow. I'm curious what charges caused federal authorities to intervene with this.
I see this CBS article sadly it seems issues of white supremacy still got brought up in this and President Trump.
Mr. Trump responded on Twitter to Whitmer's remarks, writing in a thread that "my Justice Department and Federal Law Enforcement announced today that they foiled a dangerous plot against the Governor of Michigan. Rather than say thank you, she calls me a White Supremacist—while Biden and Democrats refuse to condemn Antifa, Anarchists, Looters and Mobs that burn down Democrat run cities." He also again called for Whitmer to reopen the state.
I tried to avoid any right wing sources looking at this, however, between BLM and antifa or any potential Proud Boys or Bougaloos (I haven't really seen much violent or criminal activity reported with them) I'd say anyone who engages in activities such as this are dangerous and they need to be in jail. Whatever these inviduals views on race or politics there's no difference with the rabid left who would turn on people who would otherwise be sympathetic but would overthrow them because they represent the system.
Now wait a second, he's not the only Democrat who is claiming the benefits of using hydroxycholoroquine. That medicine is one used in the treatment of malaria and is being promoted as a treatment to the coronavirus. The bad news is that promoting it's use is proving political in a time where we need treatments to this virus which is burning through the world's population.
A Democratic New York City Councilman says hydroxychloroquine saved his life after a near-fatal run-in with COVID-19 in March.
Paul Vallone, who represents northeast Queens, took the drug along with a standard flu Z-pack, and came back from the brink almost immediately.
“I couldn’t breathe, very weak, couldn’t get out of bed. My doctor prescribed it. My pharmacy had it. Took it that day and within two to three days I was able to breathe,” Vallone told The Post. “Within a week I was back on my feet.”
Though Vallone went public with his coronavirus diagnosis in an April 1 Twitter post, saying he was experiencing “mild symptoms,” his actual condition was considerably more severe. Vallone’s initial prognosis was particularly grim, as he also suffers from sarcoidosis, an auto-immune disease that attacks his lungs.
“We were in panic mode when I went down because I didn’t have a lot of immune response,” he said. “I needed something to stay alive.”
Hydroxychloroquine “worked for me.”
Vallone’s brother Peter, a former City Councilman and a current civil court judge in Queens, also became a convert after his brother’s illness.
“I guess all those doctors who are prescribing it are right. This drug is already on the market and the patent is up so it’s cheap. A new drug won’t be. So big money does not want this drug to be used. Always follow the money,” Peter Vallone said in a May 12 Facebook post, sharing a link to an NYU study touting the drug.
I guess you want to know who was the other Democrat? And it was very early into this pandemic during the time of panic buying and lockdowns. Back when we didn't know as much about this virus:
State Rep. Karen Whitsett, who learned Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19, said she started taking hydroxychloroquine on March 31, prescribed by her doctor, after both she and her husband sought treatment for a range of symptoms on March 18.
"It was less than two hours" before she started to feel relief, said Whitsett, who had experienced shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, and what felt like a sinus infection. She is still experiencing headaches, she said.
Rep. Karen Whitsett (Photo: Michigan House of Representatives)
Whitsett said she was familiar with "the wonders" of hydroxychloroquine from an earlier bout with Lyme disease, but does not believe she would have thought to ask for it, or her doctor would have prescribed it, had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
Trump, at his daily coronavirus briefings, has repeatedly touted the drug in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin, despite criticism from health professionals that it is unproven and potentially dangerous. There have also been complaints that Trump's remarks have resulted in a shortage of the drug for those people who normally use it for its recommended purposes.
Why is talking about this drug as a treatment for coronavirus political? Because Trump has been talking about it, but I thought this was a dangerous illness. We need treatments to get back to some semblance of normal right? And yet, someone out there whether a doctor or nurse or politician wants to discount the President's assertion out of hand and anyone else who believes this could be an effective treatment without any study or consideration. I don't understand....
I also get the feeling any news from this NYC councilman will get suppressed. This is not something that's going to get spread because it goes against the grain of anyone who wants to discount President Trump.
It sort of happened to Michigan State Representative Whitsett. She got censured by her caucus when she talked about this drug.
[VIDEO] Having seen the recent Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 a few points the movie made.
To start how did we get a President Donald Trump, I'm thinking Moore's point with that is the Democratic establishment blew the 2016 election. Besides the inevitable first woman President was expected to have it in the bag right. No one believed Trump could win it.
Next how did we get a President Trump if America is really a nation that trends to the left. We want universal health care for example. I could debate this I wonder what was the basis for the polls Moore cite to come to that conclusion about America's political leanings. And yes I know Moore himself is a lefty he's been around for years obviously.
Next and this is something I do agree with. I used to eschew this, but Michael Moore solidified this with me. America has a ruling class or perhaps a political class - I don't think Trump is part of that clique actually - regardless the influential who likely are very wealthy are the ones who are turning the levers of power in America. And I could conclude that they do this in a variety of ways perhaps economically and certainly through control of the media.
Here's another thing that makes sense to me the Democrats blew the 2016 the moment they "rigged" the nomination process to insure the inevitable woman President gets the nomination. I didn't know that although Sen. Bernie Sanders had won all the counties of West Virginia, the Democrat delegation to the 2016 convention threw their votes to Hillary Clinton.
Finally Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - a not quite ready for prime time congressional candidate from New York - is what Moore hopes is the future of the Democrat party. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is a Democratic socialist and is one of a number of candidates who are seeking seats in Congress. And Moore makes the case through media clips that the establishment (or the so-called ruling class) doesn't want them either. The Democratic socialists are too far to the left for America and seemingly those pundits even if they're not top Dem politicos are saying this on what I may consider liberal cable news networks.
I know that Moore makes more points than this in his movie. I think he made some great points to consider in addition to bringing to light more information on the Flint, Michigan water crisis which he claims was orchestrated by Gov. Rick Snyder. He throws in the activism of students who attended Florida's Parkland High School which unfortunately was the site of an active shooter. And of course promoting union activism - which is likely how Moore got his start in filmmaking.
One of the things Moore asks is how did a nation that trends left get Donald Trump? Perhaps America isn't that much of a leftist nation in the first place. Perhaps we could believe the hype that America wanted something different a President with very little political experience. Perhaps it was just Trump's time and it wasn't time for the first woman President. And certainly the inevitable first woman President Clinton and her team thought it was in the bag that she didn't have to really work for it. While on the other hand, Trump did the work he needed to do to win.
What this movie reminds me of is, some aspects of politics aren't as black & white. Perhaps a conservative in a red state probably has the same issues with the so-called ruling or political class as a leftist in a blue state. With that said, now we know why we do have a Ocasio-Cortez who defeated a longtime Democrat politico in New York.
With this film which is a take-off of Moore's earlier effort released during the Iraq War - Fahrenheit 9/11 - seems not to pull any punches. The label doesn't matter - Republican or Democrat - Moore didn't pull his punches.
[VIDEO] If I were to pay a visit to the great American city of Detroit - a place I visited in 2009 - I would find a light rail line.
Detroit is a city that at it's peak had over a million people has fallen on hard times and now is somewhere around have a million people. That city had significantly depopulated over the last 40 or so years.
It's a city that needs some good news, perhaps this light rail line is it, however, is it viable. Investment in public transit is never a bad thing, but it can be if it receives little use by the community it serves. And if a public transit line such as this Q-Line isn't used by the community then there can be little growth from it.
Either way, I wish I could get up there to ride those rails for free. It's only free through July 1st. When the system starts collecting fares how much will people support it.
[VIDEO] This video was aired on Hannity last night, Steven Crowder was in Lansing, Michigan and he was assaulted and the tent he was in torn to the ground by union thugs. This is unbelievable footage.
This is in relation to Michigan passing and ultimately enacting into law "right-to-work" legislation which simply means that no one is forced to join a union when they take a job. Michigan is said to be struggling as a state perhaps even before the economic downturn that started in the last decade.
Perhaps right-to-work will enable companies to reinvest in Michigan and hire more personnel, time will tell. We do see an example of who doesn't support this policy in the people who attacked Crowder. This is how passionate a lot of people take this issue.
Another battle to fight in Michigan is revitalizing Detroit. The city is teetering towards bankruptcy and I recently showed the video of a city councilwoman wanting more money for the city from President Obama. Although perhaps right-to-work may not be what puts that beleaguered city back on the map.
