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Good. Everyone should rally around the winner.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social

No matter who wins tonight's primaries in Michigan, the state Democratic party is launching a rally for all of the top nominees on Friday in Detroit. Pete Buttigieg will join the event - seeking to unify, after a blistering fight between Abdul El-Sayed & Rep. Haley Stevens

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Should have posted this earlier. Folks, none of us are political operatives who know enough to game the system. Someone was interviewed earlier today voted for A as opposed to B because she thinks A has a better chance of winning the general election. VOTE WHO YOU THINK WILL DO A BETTER JOB! 💙

There should be a united Democratic Party to give this country’s advantages back to the working class and disadvantaged instead of the billionaire bros and their ilk!

Good luck with that one. Some people will literally be marching off to the future Liberal concentration camps yelling "I didn't vote for the establishment candidate!" as if it mattered.

Primaries are for arguing it out. The general is time to fight the fasc as best as we are able. Choose wisely in your primaries. Don’t pick milquetoast nominees likely to do nothing and sell out our values. Fighters are needed.

If I am reduced to having to vote for that gremlin who doesn’t have a Michigander accent I will be fucking traumatized. Damned good thing that voting straight ticket I won’t have to see her name or else I would spoil my ballot with vomit.

I was relieved I wouldn’t have to choose between Al Sayed and McMorrow when she dropped out. Then peeved when I realized she wouldn’t be a spoiler. Then I saw her name is still on the ballot and realized there are enough racists around here to strip votes away from Stevens.

100%. But reading these comments make me worry, deeply, about how many people don't even understand what a primary is for...and how it's different from the general election...and what was learned/not learned two years ago. IN MICHIGAN.

I’m voting for the winner of today’s primary regardless of whether my preferred candidate wins or not. With Trump in office, keeping the seat Democrat is what matters. This is not a drill.

Yep. 💙 I was preparing myself to vote for Platner in Maine eventhough I didn't want to (and didn't rank him in the primary at all). This is not the party system I want, but it's what we're stuck with until we get unburied from this shit storm and make better decisions. 💙🌲

Dems have a hard time rallying around a candidate. I’m not taking a side or a position here by the way. I’m just sayin’. Big tents have a tendency to have infighting. It’s the nature of the beast. I hope with a common adversary as nefarious as we have right now, we can form a coalition.

I do wonder how many libs will still be posting "Vote blue no matter who!" if Abdul El-Sayed wins. Do they stand by those words, or are they just being used to brow beat progressives into voting for pro corporate candidates? I hope we get to find out.

There is likely to be a small minority (like James Carville and Bill Maher) that has to ask themselves are you ok voting for Fascists? Because they are both old rich guys the answer may boil down to class comfort. If they go it’s not a tragedy but rather a symptom of what’s wrong with Dem Party.

Write in vote. Washington and Israel are picking our people with their money. $60 million for stevens to win a close race using misleading ads. No thanks.

When the blue no matter who is funding Israel and genociding trans people and removing privacy laws, no you don't.

Being pragmatic and picking the best choice in the less-than-ideal situation you find yourself in is the more moral choice than sitting out and saying “at least I stuck by my guns” while the results of your choice make life worse for your community

I hope that is true whichever candidate wins, not only if Stevens wins. Look, it will make me sick to have to pull a lever for her in November, but against a MAGA fascist, I will. I hope the centrists don’t go scorched earth on him if he wins, but I’m not hopeful given what I’ve heard thus far.

For sure! The Democrats need to get their shit together and worry about policies AFTER they take the HOUSE AND SENATE. Not time to squabble...or have hurt feelings. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE!!

That's hilarious and antithetical to where dems should be. Steven's should have dropped out the moment she took one dollar from AIPAC. We should demand that terrorist groups can't support our candidates otherwise we're just Republicans.

They sure as hell better. We’d have rally around Steven’s if she had won. Even if we don’t want Zionist winning.

That’s what I’ve been saying…we may disagree on things in this party…but one thing is for sure, we gotta unite and kick his cronies to the curb dammit!!🫡💙💙👍🤷‍♂️

Any reliable Democratic is better than a Republican, but damn Stevens is bottom of the barrel. I guess people in Michigan would have to hold their noses if she wins.

It’s a NO-BRAINER!! Step One: Elect a Democrat to Congress and Takeover the Majority. Step Two: Hold Trump & his Sycophant Enablers Accountable for Their CORRUPTION! Step Three: Fix Everything Trump Destroyed: •Economy •Healthcare •Housing •Corruption •Nazi Style Immigration Tactics

Honestly Allison, that's the problem. They keep putting us in the position of voting for the 'lesser of two evils' and personally, I am quite sick of it. I may vote Green if they don't stop pushing these center-right candidates on us. Sorry-Not sorry.

Not voting for Stevens, sorry. She’s a bitch and bought by PAC money. I don’t care if the Senate is GOP anymore because the attack ads on El-Sayed were relentless. Relentless. And in total bullshit.

Something is happening here, though, that has to be reckoned with, in my opinion. Long-term, it’s feeling like the party is splitting in half. I will do whatever I need to do to keep a Republican from rubber-stamping us further into fascism, but something has to change.

I didn’t say we couldn’t, however a big part of why we are here is that people are increasingly feeling that the status quo is not working for them, and that money instead of people are deciding election outcomes. That’s what makes this so painful for so many.

Some of us have deal breakers. I had one in 2024 and the dnccorpwhores told us they didn't care. STILL is m y dealbreaker. NO zionist. I also will not vote for anyone who is third way. Biggest mistake that any dnccorpwhore could make is taking any third way $$$$. Just as bad as aipac.

IMHO......third way cheated us of Bernie. Look it up and try to say different. The dncc was broke in 2015 and the clintons BOUGHT them out for her nomination. So they HAD to cheat Bernie. mayor pete voted for clinton when his state went for Bernie. I have the list....Sadly cousin Jimmy voted clinton

NO! People like YOU REFUSE to listen to us and will continue to loose. WTF should we continue to vote for zionist scum who are more PRO-israel than PRO AMERICA! Have you heard the dnccorpwhore leadership! PICK a country. they have picked israel! OH....and screw you!

I get it. I am not to familiar with exactly what's going on there. What I was trying to get across is the media likes to stoke infighting, but when the dust is settled we need to circle the wagons... we have to gain control.

As a boomer, a Michigander & a voter, I’m ready for change & a new person who has fresh ideas & is not afraid to stand up to tyranny. And I believe Abdul will bring it.

Uh no. Haley Stevens is an establishment Dem who only cares about Israel, not the people of Michigan. It's why AIPAC is spending over 40 million on her campaign. It is time to stop with the "Blue No Matter Who" bullshit. That's how you get Fettermans and Schumers.

We should be fighting in the primaries to replace the Fettermans and Schumers, but they’re still better than the alternative. I’m all in for Abdul, but Stevens is still infinitely better than Mike Rogers

Yeah absolutely agreed! But the original post was talking about is after the primaries have taken place and we have our nominees for the general. Rallying everyone and mending fences to make sure supporters of whoever lost the primary don’t stay home in the general will be super important

Ladyeliz——to say that Stevens only cared about Israel and not about MI is the kind of exaggerated statement that we’d expect from republicans and regime TV. We dems must focus on winning and not unduly criticizing ourselves.

Anyways, no I'm not exaggerating. Stevens had no policies or platform but kept going on and on about Israel during her campaign. And even threw in some anti-Muslim slop just for "funsies". Walk like a duck, quack like a duck, is most likely a hasbara agent.

Fetterman’s problem is probably that he is somewhat brain damaged from his stroke. He shouldn’t have been elected but at the time he couldn’t be replaced. The problem with Israel is Netanyahu. That country is being led by a criminal, just as we are.

Please stop with the revisionist history on Fetterman. He ran as a progressive. The "normie" establishment Dem in that race was Conor Lamb.

With all that AIPAC $$$ , she still did not bear Abdul. Had she won I doubt that the AIPAC faucet would’ve continued. Thus I doubt she could’ve beaten the republican candidate. However, Dependent media will blame Abdul and Dem Soc’s for it if he loses

I’ll be happier if my preferred candidate wins, but even my least fave Dem candidate is loads better than having Mike Rogers as a Trumpy-Senator. And I hope Buttegieg is running for 2028.

The fight should be hard to pick a candidate that’s what helps pick a strong one and then after the vigorous debate and fight you suck it up and get behind the winner not that hard ppl!!!!!