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Extremes Take the Primaries, the Middle Gets Left Behind. El-Sayed Squeaks Through in Michigan.
Democrats Drop Out in Idaho and South Dakota. Media Blitz Pod
The rigged two-party system delivered another round of primary results this week, and the pattern is impossible to miss: the extremes keep winning the nominations while roughly 44% of Americans who identify as independent get shoved further to the margins. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed squeaked past Haley Stevens in a race that was supposed to be close and somehow got closer — and now Democrats have ninety days to figure out whether a DSA-aligned progressive can hold a battleground state they cannot afford to lose. Paul Rieckhoff…
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