The Patriot Post® · Dems Hung Over After El-Sayed Win

Let the Democrat hangover begin.

At 10:00 ET this morning, Fox News, taking its cue from the Appropriated Press, finally called the Michigan Democrat Senate primary for 41-year-old Muslim leftist and Hasan Piker pal Abdul El-Sayed over dimwitted and cringe-worthy establishment Democrat Haley Stevens.

Folks, we got our wish. As I stressed the other day, Michigan isn’t going to elect a Muslim senator — especially not one who ran on Jew-hatred, and especially not if there’s a decent alternative. And Republican Mike Rogers is a decent alternative.

The Democrats have thus woken up after a big-time bender, and they face an awful situation: If they embrace Democrat socialism, it will ruin their party. On the other hand, if they renounce Abdul El-Sayed, they’ll depress their energetic base in the run-up to the November midterm elections.

Last night, a bleary-eyed El-Sayed said this: “We are not a purple state. We are a state in need of a movement to take our politics back.” But the day before, he was seen hanging out at a pool party with the aforementioned Piker, the Mao-worshiping commie dirtbag who said, “America deserved 9/11.”

As Rogers aptly put it, “The crazy train has arrived in Michigan, with Bernie Sanders throwing coal in the boiler and AOC as the engineer.”

Democrat strategist Melissa DeRosa seems seriously unenthused with El-Sayed’s candidacy: “Last night was a loss for Sayed, even if he ends up winning.” Why? Because poll after poll showed him being up by double digits over Stevens, to the point where people had pretty much written off the race. And yet he limped home with less than 50% of the vote.

All the “experts” said we were going to see a resounding win for the Muslim Democrat socialist. But Michigan Democrats had other ideas, even though the alternative was Haley Stevens, who by any measure was a horribly uninspiring candidate.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dodged questions about his endorsement of Stevens and the potential of an El-Sayed win, saying only that “We are going to win Michigan” and “We are a big-tent party.” Uh-huh.

Rogers seems well positioned to be Michigan’s next senator. He lost by three-tenths of a point to Elissa Slotkin in 2024, and with the additional name recognition he now has, he should clean El-Sayed’s clock among centrist voters.

El-Sayed, for his part, has been scrambling to repair some of the damage that he’s done to Michigan’s Jewish community, taking to Twitter to profess his love for Judaism and the Jewish people. To me, that sounds like a whole lot of taqiyya.

El-Sayed’s camp sent out an email this morning for a 10:30 ET presser, with a subject line that reads, “Abdul El-Sayed to Address Media Following Historic Victory.”

Historic? I suppose. It’ll be interesting to see how he tries to spin his near-epic collapse in a race that everyone — and I mean everyone — had him winning easily.

“We wanna get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, pass Medicare for all,” he said on MS NOW this morning, adding, “We’ve got an opportunity to bring ourselves back together, to come together around a movement to take our democracy back, to make sure we have a government of the People by the people, and for the people, rather than of the corporations by the billionaires and for the special interests, and that’s exactly why $70 million was spent against me in this race. They see me as an existential threat to the system of politics that is making it way too hard on everyday people.”

All that leftist pablum is well and good for his base, but everyday Michiganders are going to think twice about pulling a lever for a guy who said during his July 7 debate with Stevens, “So long as our politicians continue to be bought off by AIPAC, do not be surprised when we fight wars that are in their best interests, to annex Israel, uh, to annex Lebanon, or to do genocide in Gaza.”

How did the polling in Michigan get it so wrong? “Ruthless Podcast” cohost and former Republican strategist Josh Holmes thinks that the pollsters are simply oversampling the party’s “hyperactive progressive white voters.”

As Holmes pointed out, “El-Sayed took $60 million of Chuck Schumer’s money to the face and still looks like he’s going to win.”

And the remarkable thing about this race is that Mallory McMorrow, the other establishment Democrat who dropped out of the race a couple of weeks ago to clear the deck for Stevens, still got 4% of the vote. That’s more than 60,000 votes, which, if it were apportioned to Stevens, would’ve put her comfortably ahead of El-Sayed. Then again, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Democrat voters.

Just as in the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential election, in which a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote for America, so too yesterday a vote for Mallory McMorrow was a vote for America.

There’s another fascinating race that began to shape up in Michigan last night — its race for governor, which will pit Republican U.S. Congressman John James against Democrat operative and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. The question here is whether Detroit’s black voters will come out for the Democrat, as they usually do, or whether they’ll sense a chance at history by helping elect the first black man as governor of Michigan.

We’ll see on November 3. Just as we’ll see what Michigan voters are made of when it comes to Abdul El-Sayed.