The bitter Senate nomination race will show whether the party’s left wing can win in the heartland..
..The battle between Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive former local public-health official, and Rep. Haley Stevens, a four-term congresswoman, encapsulates virtually everything dividing Democrats..
..Michigan Republicans are poised to nominate former Rep. Mike Rogers..
..If El-Sayed wins, it would be a sign that the party’s leftward shift is taking place beyond coastal and deeply blue enclaves, such as in New York and Colorado, where DSA-aligned candidates have defeated more centrist incumbents in Democratic primaries.
New York’s law prohibiting federal immigration agents from wearing masks and requiring them to display identification was blocked on Monday after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction halting the ban.
From 2018 to 2025, 660 elections were decided by fewer than 10 votes; of those, 94 elections were decided by one vote, according to Ballotpedia. Almost a third of those one-vote elections were state legislative races. Since 1992, there have been 1,371 elections ending in a tie, while another 530 were decided by a single vote, according to a database from the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group.
High-Stakes Michigan Primary Tests Progressive Clout and the Democratic Direction
N.Y. Law Barring ICE Agents From Wearing Masks Is Blocked by Judge
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