AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Black voters in Detroit say Democrats treat them as an afterthought — and El-Sayed's primary numbers prove it
Black voters in Detroit are telling anyone who will listen that the Democratic Party takes their support for granted, and the Michigan Senate primary results suggest the party's progressive wing isn't even trying to change that. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive activist who narrowly won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary earlier this month, built his victory on […] The post Black voters in Detroit say Democrats treat them as an afterthought — and El-Sayed's primary numbers prove it appeared first on American Almanac .
Black voters in Detroit are telling anyone who will listen that the Democratic Party takes their support for granted, and the Michigan Senate primary results suggest the party's progressive wing isn't even trying to change that. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive activist who narrowly won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary earlier this month, built his victory on strong turnout in Arab-American enclaves like Dearborn and Hamtramck. In counties where Black residents make up 15 percent or more of the population, his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens, beat him by an average of eight points, according to a county-level analysis by The Hill. That gap matters. El-Sayed's margin of victory was razor-thin, fewer than 15,000 votes out of more than 1.5…Open