Dave Weigel: Mich. Senate Race Isn’t Just to Put a Point on the Board for Dems, But to Prove That Progressives Should Take Over the Party

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WEIGEL: “Progressives and Republicans want this to be — the entire state election to be about El-Sayed. And progressives will tell you, the people who endorsed El Sayed, which is the whole coalition of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren-aligned groups, they want to prove that El-Sayed can win Michigan by the transit of property. That means AOC can win Michigan if she runs for president, and other progressives should be nominated in swing states everywhere. And what they have on their side at the moment is the National Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is interested in winning that seat, so they’re going to have the entire party establishment that El-Sayed ran against helping get him elected.”