Political analysts are looking to past election cycles to predict what might happen this year. Popular examples include 2018, the year of the midterm elections during President Donald Trump’s first term, and 2010, given the current tea party-like climate in the Democratic Party. Top Cook Political Report editor Amy Walter goes back 20 years to […]

Abdul el Sayed achieved what progressives are hailing as the Democratic Party’s “biggest upset” in modern politics with his Michigan Senate primary win against establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI). But the progressive insurgent, supported by socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), now faces his biggest test of all following a […]

Abdul el Sayed’s victory in Michigan‘s Democratic Senate primary is forcing many Jewish Democrats to confront a difficult question: support the nominee who is already being labeled “the most antisemitic U.S. Senate candidate in America” or vote for the Republican. Within hours of Tuesday night’s result, some Jewish Democrats said they were already hearing from […]

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed waved off Twitch streamer Hasan Piker‘s role in the state’s bruising Democratic primary, saying he does not share Piker’s perspective that the party should rally behind the recent winner. Piker has become one of the loudest voices in the progressive flank of the Democratic Party, stumping for el […]