Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
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Astead asks David Axelrod if Schumer & Jeffries should be taking the credit for the big win:
I would be humble if I were them. This victory was delivered by the American people, not Washington.
I heard they were searching for the phone numbers of some of the Democrats who won.
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Look closer at calls to "cut aid" to Israel. The $4B in aid is only tip of the iceberg for US support, and misses 10x that amount in sales of weapons Israel can't get anywhere else, plus massive military deployments to shield Israel while it starts wars.
This is really astonishing when you consider all punditry devoted to the Jewish vote in Michigan. It shifted 1.3% from Elissa Slotkin (hailed as the great centrist vote getter) to El-Sayed. Since Jews make up 1.4% of Michigan voters, we are talking about roughly 0.00182 of the electorate.
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NEW:
The campaign of now Senator-elect Annie Andrews received a poll in early October showing her with a three-point lead over Darline Graham.
But the Democrat's campaign decided against publicly releasing the poll — or any subsequent internal poll — showing Andrews with a lead over Graham, wary of drawing too much attention from national Republicans and jeopardizing a peak at the right time.
By the time Republicans noticed, it was too late to turn Graham's campaign around.
Full Story: bit.ly/3WPGEnj
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“I'm just I'm disappointed because I was looking forward to that $5,000 check that we were all going to get.”
Warriors coach Steve Kerr has jokes after last nights Blue Wave midterm elections.
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Abdul El-Sayed:
I didn't realize that the president and vice president were going to turn me into the main character of the midterms. I didn't run for that.
I ran because I want to serve this great state in the same way that I've been serving in different roles in public health.
They ran a very ugly campaign, and they purposely tried to divide us. And I think what Michiganders showed is just how big we really are.
We reject that kind of division. We believe in a politics that puts us in the driver's seat, and we want to be able to afford our gas and groceries. It's really not that hard.
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WOO-HOO @AbdulElSayed! What an incredible night. What an incredible win.
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
That’s what Abdul is bringing to the U.S. Senate.
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Americans are tired of being told their needs are unrealistic by politicians who have been bought by the wealthiest people in the country.
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You heard it from Michigan’s very own, @steviewonder. The stakes could not be higher in this fight for our future.
Make your voice heard and vote for @jocelynbenson and @abdulelsayed by 8pm today. 💙
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I’m Jewish and fully endorse @AbdulElSayed’s comments and reject your false and exploitative mischaracterization of it.
Spending American workers’ tax dollars on feeding and educating our kids here rather than bombing kids abroad is good policy and basic humanity.
Shame on you.
Abdul El-Sayed literally just repeated the gist of the claim that got him in hot water this week:
“It shouldn't be this hard to pay taxes and know that that money's gonna be spent on you and your kids, instead of dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids.”
That is the essence of the highly controversial ad that caused Haley Stevens to break with him and sparked condemnation from Jewish leaders across America.
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I stood in line last night waiting to get into @AbdulElSayed’s final rally in Detroit with a Black woman (and UAW member) who voted for Stevens in the primary. We talked about what Stevens did and I asked her opinion on how the community felt about it. She used several of the words on this list, and expressed hurt that she had been misled and deceived by Haley Stevens. She talked about some of the stories spread about Abdul in the primary (all AIPAC specials that we at @TrackAIPAC called out) and how betrayed she felt when she learned that all of them were lies.
The good people of Detroit understand what transpired here. Voters don’t like being lied to.
This is going to be a close race in part because of Haley Stevens and her treachery in service to Apartheid Israel. But I have faith in Michiganders to see through the bullshit and bring this home.
Still not taking anything for granted. We were on the doors yesterday. Up early again because we will be out there talking to voters again today. We’re not leaving one vote on the table.
We still have work to do. But the elections we win today are going to save lives. Believe that.
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If Jeffrey Epstein was alive today, he would endorse the entirety of the Republican Party.
This ad should play on every TV channel for the next three days.
If you want answers and accountability vote Democrat.
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Haley Stevens deserves tremendous credit for unifying the Democratic Party today.
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Dr. El-Sayed is a fighter for our American Constitution, he’s a fighter for our American Democracy, and he’s a fighter against the corrupt, lawless, and anti-American leadership currently in the White House. That’s why I’m in his corner 100%.
Bruce Springsteen
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I’d really like to see mainstream media interview Arab-American Michiganders and give them the opportunity to describe what it’s been like to hear constant Islamophobic rhetoric in this race from both friends and foes. The lack of coverage on this feels intentional.































