Senate candidate El-Sayed says it's "funny to me" to assume Michigan votes for moderates when it voted twice for Trump
Populist Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens top the Democratic field going into Tuesday's Senate primary. Former Rep. Mike Rogers is running unopposed for the GOP nomination.
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In his race to be the next Democratic senator from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive populist, is challenging perceptions about who Michigan's voters are and what they really want.
In an interview with CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe, El-Sayed questioned the characterization of the state's voters as moderates.
"It's always funny to me that people want to say that this state votes for moderates when it voted for Donald Trump twice," he told O'Keefe in Detroit Monday, on the eve of the Michigan primaries.
"It may just be that the better explanation is not that the state wants moderates: It's that it's so sick and tired of the establishment bought off by corporations on both sides of the political aisle that it was willing to hold its nose and vote for Donald Trump twice."
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