{"id":2126,"date":"2026-08-02T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:11:05","slug":"a-normie-democrat-revolt-is-pushing-abdul-el-sayed-toward-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"A Normie Democrat Revolt Is Pushing Abdul El-Sayed Toward Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WILLIAMSTON, Mich. \u2014 Kent Tisdale spent most of his life voting for Republicans before he started voting for Democrats, even backing Donald Trump in 2016. The 70-year-old retiree can even remember that his biggest concern backing Mitt Romney in 2012 was that the GOP presidential nominee wasn\u2019t conservative enough.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2120\">Sen. Bernie Moreno Says His Ex-Son-In-law, Rep. Max Miller, \u2018Shouldn\u2019t Serve in the House\u2019<\/a><\/p><p>He is now seriously considering supporting Abdul El-Sayed in Tuesday\u2019s Senate Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Tisdale, now a member of his local Indivisible chapter, said Trump\u2019s presidency and the deluge of money in politics led him to El-Sayed, whose passion has impressed him even if the candidate\u2019s politics are further left than he\u2019d like.<\/p><p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel I\u2019ve changed that much,\u201d said Tisdale, who spoke to NOTUS while attending an event for a local House candidate. \u201cBut I feel the environment has changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Election 2026 Michigan Abdul El-Sayed\" class=\"wp-image-2070\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f2ddf7a4533d6e0aeae92be6d7a8240-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f2ddf7a4533d6e0aeae92be6d7a8240-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f2ddf7a4533d6e0aeae92be6d7a8240-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f2ddf7a4533d6e0aeae92be6d7a8240.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n<u>Dana Milbank:<\/u> I Was Prepared to Dislike Abdul El-Sayed. Then I Came to Michigan and Spoke to Him.\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"maxmiller.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2124\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7a89060b2ab465476cda3e881f395593-768x422.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7a89060b2ab465476cda3e881f395593-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7a89060b2ab465476cda3e881f395593-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7a89060b2ab465476cda3e881f395593.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Sen. Bernie Moreno Says His Ex-Son-In-Law, Rep. Max Miller, \u2018Shouldn\u2019t Serve in the House\u2019\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro\" class=\"wp-image-2105\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4db0972e76b18d697025897a71ae2859-768x514.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4db0972e76b18d697025897a71ae2859-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4db0972e76b18d697025897a71ae2859-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4db0972e76b18d697025897a71ae2859.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      Trump, Burgum Blast Pirro For Dropping Reflecting Pool Damage Case\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bernie Sanders\" class=\"wp-image-2125\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/87497e70808ac0b1122cecf274e2a246-768x512.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/87497e70808ac0b1122cecf274e2a246-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/87497e70808ac0b1122cecf274e2a246-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/87497e70808ac0b1122cecf274e2a246.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><h3>\n<span>\n                      DSA Wants to Abolish the Senate. Bernie Sanders Says \u2018No.\u2019\n                    <\/span>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>In Michigan and across the country this year, voters like Tisdale are transforming Democratic primaries \u2014 and potentially putting the party on a different path as it heads into the 2028 presidential campaign.<\/p><p>Rank-and-file Democratic voters who once naturally inclined toward establishment-backed candidates are instead supporting \u2014 or at least showing an openness to \u2014 lefty candidates they would have previously believed to be outside the political mainstream. They\u2019re driven by disappointment in old-guard Democrats\u2019 inability to beat Trump in 2024 and a growing sense that the country\u2019s politics need a fresh direction.<\/p><p>It\u2019s that change in the electorate that, more than anything this year, explains why El-Sayed is now favored to beat Rep. Haley Stevens in Tuesday\u2019s Senate primary in Michigan. Stevens is running the type of campaign \u2014 backed by key party endorsements, support in the Black community and plenty of money \u2014 that has helped centrist Democrats like her defeat progressive challengers for years. That pattern held for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.<\/p><p>But the voters on the receiving end of that effort are in a much different place than they were in 2024, much less 2018 or 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many people feel the same way I do, that something needs to be done,\u201d said Jan Cohen, who founded a local Indivisible chapter last year. \u201cAnd the only reasonable thing seems to be: Burn it down and start over, and make it different. We have to take the stands and do everything we can.\u201d<\/p><p>Cohen voted against El-Sayed in 2018 when he ran for governor against Gretchen Whitmer. But she said she\u2019s grown frustrated with Michigan Democratic leaders recently, worried they no longer seem to be pushing progressive policy through the state and upset at their support for Stevens.<\/p><p>The frustration normie Democratic voters feel with their own party is in part responsible for the defeat of establishment-backed politicians like Janet Mills in Maine\u2019s Senate race, or the handful of defeats of Democratic incumbents in safe blue House seats. In nearby Wisconsin, Democratic voters look poised to nominate a democratic socialist for governor in that state\u2019s open gubernatorial race despite protests from party leaders like Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers.<\/p><p>El-Sayed, a former Wayne County, Michigan, health director, earned just 30% of the vote against Whitmer in 2018. That sort of defeat had become the norm for progressive Democrats, most crucially during each of Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaigns. In those races, the senator from Vermont was unable to break through with many middle-of-the-road Democratic voters, especially in the Black community, and was ultimately pushed back by a party establishment that emphasized electability and realistic policy goals.<\/p><p>Polls now show El-Sayed <span><u>in a strong position<\/u><\/span> ahead of Tuesday\u2019s primary, leading Stevens by a double-digit margin in a spate of recent surveys, despite tens of millions of dollars spent against his campaign by outside groups.<\/p><p>Stevens officials maintain the congresswoman has a chance to win Tuesday, dismissing polls as underestimating the support of her core voters. Some of the frustrated voters, including Tisdale, have also not actually made up their minds despite their openness to El-Sayed, expressing some reservations about his ideology and electability in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>And even progressive activists say privately they think the movement of these voters toward candidates like El-Sayed is less about a newfound acceptance of lefty policy platforms like single-payer health care and more about their anger with the Democratic establishment.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2114\">DSA Wants to Abolish the Senate. Bernie Sanders Says \u2018No.\u2019<\/a><\/p><p>Some Stevens supporters acknowledge that El-Sayed has tapped into a deep frustration in the party, pushing his candidacy to a stronger position than many expected was once possible for a candidate with his politics.<\/p><p>\u201cAbdul has drafted behind that uneasiness with our party,\u201d said Lon Johnson, a veteran Democratic strategist in the state. \u201cHe has done a good job of drafting behind it, and corralling it.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThis year is very, very different than 2024,\u201d said another Democratic strategist supportive of Stevens\u2019 campaign, granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t like what that means for our party\u2019s prospects, but that\u2019s the way it\u2019s going. People are pissed.\u201d<\/p><p>In a gaggle with reporters after a campaign event last week, El-Sayed said he personally had changed a lot since his 2018 race, noting he\u2019s gone from a 32-year-old first-time candidate to a 41-year-old with two kids. He said he believes his message resonates much more deeply with the electorate now than it did then.<\/p><p>\u201cThe bigger change is not really me,\u201d he said. \u201cThe broader public has come through a lot. In the ensuing eight years, we\u2019ve had a pandemic. We\u2019ve lived through one full Trump presidency and then another quarter of one. We\u2019ve watched an inflation crisis. And the central point that I was making is that Trump is not the disease, he\u2019s the symptom. And I think this time around, after his &#8230; first reelection, I think people understand that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something about having been saying the same thing for the better part of 10 years, since I jumped into public service,\u201d he said.<\/p><p>El-Sayed said he didn\u2019t think the party\u2019s failure to defeat Trump in 2024 was the root of voters\u2019 frustration, instead blaming the simmering rage on Democrats\u2019 inability to make people\u2019s lives easier in tangible ways.<\/p><p>El-Sayed\u2019s pitch to voters hasn\u2019t deviated this campaign. Before talking to reporters last week, he rallied with supporters in Lansing with a message focused on Israel\u2019s wrongdoing in the Middle East, a single-payer health care system and a vow to take money out of politics. His final campaign ads feature progressive leaders like Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York).<\/p><p>\u201cI want you to remember that you\u2019re walking the same exact path as all of those folks who fought for everything coming from abolition to native rights to women\u2019s suffrage to LGBTQ rights to religious freedom to ending Jim Crow, to building an America where we had unions, the folks who showed up to sit down and stand up for rights, the folks who gave us Medicare and Medicaid,\u201d El-Sayed told supporters last week in Ypsilanti. \u201cYou are walking that path.\u201d<\/p><p>Polls indicate that El-Sayed still has some of the same struggles that have traditionally plagued progressives, especially with middle-aged and elderly Black voters. Stevens is counting on their support, along with older white union voters, to give her a chance at victory, and has developed her campaign to win them over.<\/p><p>But Democrats say that many suburban voters who once considered themselves ideologically and temperamentally moderate before Trump\u2019s victory in 2024 have entered their own state of rebellion. Their anger can be harshest for candidates like Stevens, Democrats say, who was first elected in 2018 but hasn\u2019t been able to stop the GOP\u2019s advance since entering office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe base is so angry at normal Democrats who were around back then and are exactly the people who said, \u2018We\u2019ve got this,\u2019\u201d said a second Democratic strategist, granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cAnd they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><p>Tisdale, a resident of Williamston, is still interested in candidates with more centrist politics, too: He spoke to NOTUS here at a meet-and-greet event for Matt Maasdam, a moderate Democrat running in the state\u2019s 7th Congressional District. (Maasdam and Bridget Brink, another candidate with the support of local Democrats, are <span><u>both in danger of losing<\/u><\/span> to a progressive activist.)<\/p><p>But even as a man who said he\u2019s never voted for Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, despite living in her old House district, Tisdale said El-Sayed\u2019s \u201cpassion level\u201d might give Democrats a needed jolt to take on Trump. It\u2019s why he says he and others, including his wife, are considering voting for the insurgent.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=2112\">Trump, Burgum Blast Pirro For Dropping Reflecting Pool Damage Case<\/a><\/p><p>\u201cWe think that kind of energy is how you fight back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe only reasonable thing seems to be: Burn it down and start over, and make it different,\u201d one Michigan organizer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Normie Democrat Revolt Is Pushing Abdul El-Sayed Toward Victory - 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