WaPo: Dems Worrying About Freaky Senate Candidate *Not* Named Platner, Too
Ed Morrissey 4:20 PM | June 05, 2026
Seriously? What could embarrass the "party of women" and muh democracy more than backing a Nazi-tatted misogynist with a history of lies and violence?
Funny you should ask.
As it happens, Democrats have an opportunity to hold onto a Senate seat in Michigan, and probably could – if they could manage to nominate a candidate that has some appeal to the electorate that voted for Donald Trump. Instead, Democrats are about to nominate another extreme candidate that could allow Republicans to expand their majority in the upper chamber. And Abdul el-Sayed might join Graham Platner as the national brand of a party that wants to run for the fringes, the Washington Post frets:
Abdul El-Sayed has outflanked Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow from the left, boosted by a populist agenda and endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and liberal lawmakers. The concerns among Democrats can be distilled pretty easily: Michigan backed Donald Trump last cycle and only narrowly elected Sen. Elissa Slotkin over former representative Mike Rogers, who will again be the Republican nominee this November. So, their thinking goes, nominating someone who has staked out a far-left position on Israel’s war in Gaza, campaigned with controversial figures that Republicans will demonize in November and is strident in his liberalism could doom their chances in this must-win seat.
It’s a familiar dynamic — establishment Democrats often worry that candidates too far left on the party’s spectrum could hurt the party in November.
“There is real concern that Abdul would not be able to beat Rogers and then potentially lose us a majority possibility in the Senate,” said Lon Johnson, a former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party and Stevens supporter.
Gee ... ya think? Bernie Sanders is one of the geniuses pushing a Nazi-tatted misogynist creep for the Senate, as well as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, the Squad, and the rest of the national socialist front. Perhaps state Democrat parties ought to tell the extremists of the party to butt out, emphasis on the butt.
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