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What the Michigan Senate Race Tells Us About the Democratic Party
Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s primary by a narrow margin—and Julia Azari and Seth Masket, political scientists and former FiveThirtyEight colleagues, return to the show to dig into what happened. We go county by county, discussing what the map suggests about the racial and geographic coalition behind El-Sayed’s win, why they’re cautious about reading too much ideology into the results, and how this fits a familiar establishment-versus-progressive pattern that’s played out in Democratic primaries for decades. We also look ahead to Wisconsin, where a similar dynamic is playing out in a closely…
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