Endorsement not always full-throated but party backing marks major turn after bitter split over nomination Facing a barrage of extreme attacks from Donald Trump and his allies, the Democratic establishment is finally rallying around progressive Abdul El-Sayed, the party’s candidate in the closely-watched US Senate election in Michigan. But the endorsement is not always full-throated, and often even omits his name. At a rally in Port Huron on Sunday, the US president launched the latest in a wave of Islamoph…
the Democratic establishment is finally rallying around progressive Abdul El-Sayed,
“Finally” as in almost 3 months ago?
Literally as soon as we’d want the party endorsing any candidate, because any earlier would have been during the primary.
Like, “the democratic establishment” is literally the DNC…
They did not meaningfully push ads etc to support him until now
I do recall Kamala and other establishment Dems going to a rally a while back and everyone here just getting salty about how she’s riding coat tails. I understand the skepticism but SOME have supported for longer than this last week.
It’s never good enough. Anything that challenges their narrative is dismissed. It’s true that establishment Democrats have definitely gotten comfortable being Republican-lite, but that is not the entire party and it is shifting a little bit at a time. And people who are jaded or have an agenda want to dismiss it but we are seeing progress in real time.
Hey you’re wrecking a both sider’s perfectly good narrative why both sides are the same so stay home next week and let the fascists win again.
Lol no. El-Sayed won the primary in spite of the DNC - not because of it. The DNC rallied hard around Haley Stevens. They retaliated against El-Sayed for his uncommitted stance om Biden. The DNC sat idly by as their AIPAC donors shelled out incredible amounts for El-Sayed’s competition. He got the cold shoulder from leading Democrats like Gretchen Whitmer, Gary Peters, and Hillary Scholten
This press release you shared is merely the turning point where the DNC went from quietly rooting against him to actually needing him to win for hopes of a blue wave. It is highly misleading to quote the DNC’s boilerplate “Congrats” memo as proof they were in his corner.
It’s because he is anti Israel.
Like most of the country except for our “behind the times” congress.
It’s always popular to be on the wrong side of history.
Being against genocide is the wrong side of history?
I guess I should have added a /s
Yeah, I’m typically pretty good at catching sarcasm, but there have been some people unironically saying stuff like that around Lemmy lately. They’re probably just paid trolls, though.
Completely reasonable. Can’t tell fact from fiction on here anymore it seems.
I think the point is that being against Israel is not popular. Hitler was popular. Trump is/was popular. Netanyahu is popular.
The wrong side is often popular before a correction comes.
That explains Trump supporters
