I was ready to sweat this race. Didn’t think I’d say “eh no worries we took TEXAS, KANSAS, and IOWA”
Fuck yeah
his speech was fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7rJ_D6qCjI
told the previous Republican to retire and never come back. railed on trump and vance. good for him
This was a vote blue no matter who election in MI, it seems like many Michiganders just went straight ticket dem. I was initially a Mallory guy but my vote was going to whomever won.
In late 2024, McMorrow voted as a state senator for legislation providing sales- and use-tax exemptions to qualifying data centers in an effort to attract projects to Michigan.
McMorrow said that she had a respectful relationship with AIPAC; the outlet also reported that her husband, who is Jewish, had interned for AIPAC.
She seems cool.
I’m watching his speech and he is razzing everyone hard.
Told Rogers to enjoy his retirement and not come back to MI.
He started laughing when he said Vance is constitutionally obligated to swear him “Wolverines 1, Buckeyes 0”
Then told the orange turd that he knows he has trouble pronouncing his name, but after he’s sworn in in January he only has to call him Senator.
Link to transcript, please?
From the UK, well done USA, common sense has somewhat prevailed. Please don’t fuck this up and in 2 years please don’t vote for whatever sack of shit the republicans put up. The world literally depends on it.
We don’t have common sense or empathy. People are just mad because he fucked up the economy.
Here’s the thing, though. “We” don’t vote conservative. The problem is more that sometimes, when it’s critical, “we” don’t show up at all.
No. If you want to fight fascism you need to improve the quality of life of the average voter; not let fascists, psychopaths, and pedophiles finance the political class for decades.
The problem is that the majority of the American political class is corrupt, and the average Dems collusion with capital is not a differentiator to fascism; a 50 year backslide into abject fascism is not the fault of one side, or ~50% of politicians. Clean house or accept totalitarian dictatorship. Those are Americas options. Blaming the population who have been abused and exploited for decades will not help you… or do ya’ll need gas chambers before you figure it out?
I’m not sure any non-president has ever overcome so much spending to win anyway.
My apologies, but it hasn’t been called (as much as I would like it to be). I don’t think it’s in doubt, but as The Guardian put it a couple minutes ago,
Abdul El-Sayed declared victory in Michigan’s US Senate race early Wednesday, saying he would become the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber of Congress.
However, the Associated Press has yet to call the race. As of now, 79% of votes have been counted, and El-Sayed is leading his Republican challenger, Mike Rogers, by five points.
EDITED to revise: the race has now been called, about 45 minutes later, and El-Sayed has won. Congratulations to Michiganders on your new Senator (that actually gives a damn about you)!
The Associated Press declared El-Sayed the winner at 2:27 a.m. EST.
Yeah, I’ve already edited my comment, thanks.
Decision Desk HQ has called it: https://votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/2026-11-03/michigan-us-senate-general-election
But they seem the only ones so far
Looks like the Trump Presidency really did bring about some change. Jokes aside, the whole state voted quite a bit more blue this time around.
This victory speech is delicious
Wolverine
This is amazing news
I feel something about 'Murica that I have felt before and been sorely disappointed in so many times:
Hope…
He claimed victory, but the race is still not called.
Rogers told his people to go home.
Yeah, Rogers very pointedly has not conceded.
In the end, that doesn’t mean El-Sayed hasn’t won, just that we were all correct in thinking Rogers really is that much of a dick, and now we have to wait it out to find out just how much of a dick he plans to be about it.
Or to put it another way, there’s a Senate race in Mississippi that The Guardian has at a mere 20 vote difference right now; I wouldn’t concede that either. But that’s not the case in Michigan.
Texas wasnt a huge surprise. Kansas is kind of out of the blue, just a Republican in blue paint. Fucking Mississippi though? Now thats a shocker
Kansas is kind of out of the blue, just a Republican in blue paint.
Yeah that one smells fucky through and through. We’ll see how it plays out I guess.
I don’t have high hopes for Josh “Throw the trans community under the bus” Turek either.
On the plus side, they have little to no power because the margin was so great.
I mean it’s done.
Alright, so I’ve heard of the Democrat who advertised for el-sayed’s opponent. Why should we be excited about him over her, other than the pettiness?
She support genocide and serve israel over her own country
Dude refused to buckle on trans support.
Edit: I see the dogpile starting above. I assumed the question was asked in good faith, since we can’t really expect everyone to keep up with everything. And I just regurgitated the last best thing I remembered about a long and eventful campaign season.
I assumed the question was asked in good faith, since we can’t really expect everyone to keep up with everything
The way the entire comment is phrased speaks to a bias, so I cannot assume that question was asked in good faith.
You’re going to be wrong literally constantly, trying to read tone online
I like the spirit of this comment and want to keep it going.
I am excited about El-Sayed because of all the people who had a real shot at this position, he showed the most compassion for humanity. How often do you get to say that about a fucking senate race?
For myself, there are things I can’t flip on, no matter what, and to me charting a stable course over time matters. El-Sayed has never changed his tune: he wants Medicare for all, he wants Trump held accountable, and he wants big money out of politics. He believes it, he preaches it, he has never deviated from it for a second as far as I know, and he seems legitimately excited about getting those things done. And me, I want all those things too, so for me it’s an easy call (or would be, if I were in Michigan).
On the other hand, who fucking knows what Haley Stevens believes anymore. She’s not even a member of her state’s Democratic Party at this point, and she’s made a point of publicly turning her back on every Dem colleague on the hill who supported her. Even if she got reelected tomorrow, with all the personal bridges she’s burned, what could she possibly get done? No one will trust her now. Her constituents are fucked. It’s good she’s leaving in January, and even better that she lost the primary, IMO.
Here’s a list of reasons, but the very fact that he’s willing to say “oligarchs” on his site should get the point across.
