Abdul El-Sayed prevails in close Michigan race
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* There were all kinds of closely watched primaries in Michigan this week, but the marquee contest was the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, in which Abdul El-Sayed appears to have narrowly prevailed over Rep. Haley Stevens, who conceded the contest on Wednesday morning. Party officials have already begun to coalesce behind El-Sayed, who will face former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, in the fall.
Elsewhere in the Wolverine State, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson won a Democratic gubernatorial primary, and she will face Rep. John James, who won the GOP gubernatorial primary.
Meanwhile, in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, Matt Maasdam, a retired Navy SEAL, and Bridget Brink, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, split the center-left vote, clearing the way for William Lawrence, a progressive organizer who co-founded the climate organization the Sunrise Movement, to win the Democratic congressional nomination.
* In Kansas’ Senate race, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, the pastor of the largest United Methodist congregation in the country, won the Democratic nomination and will face Sen. Roger Marshall, the Republican incumbent. Hamilton is hoping to become the first Democratic senator from Kansas in nearly a century.
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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