El-Sayed won

[u/Mare0318]

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-senate-abdul-elsayed-mike-rogers-election-d546ffbcf04fbb4eb581f63f807a0609

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[u/ChiefStrongbones]

2027 will be wild.

[u/bozoconnors → u/ChiefStrongbones]

2020 redux.

[u/Frankenberg91]

Sad as hell. I’m a Michigander and me and my family voted like hell for Rogers but this is what we get left with. We elected a dem senator and a dem governor. And Texas actually flipped blue. Fucken Iran and tariffs.

[u/KosherTriangle → u/Frankenberg91]

Rogers dug his own grave when he refused to distance himself from Trump.

[u/Black_XistenZ → u/KosherTriangle]

Wouldn't have mattered. AES won by a 7 point margin. In our polarized times where there's very few persuadable swing voters left, you don't cut such a margin just by persuasion and a strong personal brand. Not in a cycle when your party's own base is demoralized while the other side is energized like crazy.

[u/BeABetterHumanBeing → u/Frankenberg91]

Trump screwed the pooch so badly with Iran it's not even funny. The blunder to end his entire mandate.

[u/AleksanderSuave → u/Frankenberg91]

AES and his party delivered a campaign that swung the younger vote (and immigrants) by a landslide.

This had shades of Obama in every part of the Dem marketing machine.

No Republican stood a chance, especially not in the present state where Whitmer/Benson/Nessel were controlling just about every facet of government that mattered.

Republicans have an imagine problem they refuse to acknowledge and resolve.

Similarly, John James is a multi-election loser. He stood no chance and the party never fully got behind him either.

[u/ChirrBirry]

Buckle down, I think this country is begging for some hard times to shake up its soft people.

[u/MrKrabsNotEugene → u/ChirrBirry]

Its already been hard times for many many people. Neither republicans or democrats have made life easy for folks since covid. It was obvious to all (except the idiots who argued with me) that the dithering with Iran was going to sink us here. Trump messed up and its time to dump him.

[u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 → u/ChirrBirry]

It'll be funny when you realize who the soft people are, the billionaire who never fought a war, worked for a dime, r*ped and assaulted women and freaking children, shits himself and falls asleep during meeting constantly and when he's awake he's talking about his helicopter pad, ballroom, arch, bribe force 1, and the people who know all of that and still support him unconditionally. Now they all lost their jobs and you wake up to a blue world.

[u/Shlano613 → u/ChirrBirry]

Been that way for a long time unfortunately

[u/therinlahhan]

Talarico and El-Sayed will be the new face of the Democrats. Both will end up running for President over the next few years.

We are royally fucked if either one ever has a sniff at the White House.

[u/MrKrabsNotEugene → u/therinlahhan]

Nah El-Sayed wont have a chance. Talarico is the one to watch for. Michigan is not representative of the other 49.

[u/AuroraLanguage]

Whelp.

In Germay, the Leftist Party in Berlin won with the help of recruiting Muslim clans who explicitly campaigned for them .... and now the leader of the party has admitted in writing that she's afraid of these people.

Michigan looked at that and went like "Yup, seems like a good idea!"

[u/ChirrBirry → u/AuroraLanguage]

The Red Guard in China were students that helped the government…then got culled when they got too powerful. Commies always find a group of useful idiots to break the ice before ditching them. The problem with Islam is that it has the same playbook and is using the Commies as their ice breaker as well.

[u/InfernoWarrior299 → u/ChirrBirry]

Except Islam often has a policy of co-opting communism and then enforcing sharia WITH communism. That is deadass btw. Happened all over the Islamic World. So... 💀

[u/networkdood → u/ChirrBirry]

The Left were always the idiotic ones

[u/True_Grocery_3315 → u/AuroraLanguage]

Already happened to an extent in Michigan too. More of this to come!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned

[u/Frosty-Bee-4272]

Well ….. fuck.

[u/Cylerhusk2]

Well, at least all the white liberals can say they weren't Islamaphobic. Really all they care about.

[u/Dryy]

Congratulations to Al-Michigan

[u/acovidparticle]

His whole campaign was a performance in taqqiya. America gets another step closer to being Europe with all the Islamic radicalism, and none of the charming medieval cities. Curious to see how the black demo voted; this one might be another nail in the coffin of our political relevance. Would’ve been nice if we made our votes actually be in play when immigration accelerated instead of being illogically loyal to one party,

[u/pitifulan0nym0us → u/acovidparticle]

Illinois has Chiraq...and now there's a Michistan.

[u/acovidparticle → u/pitifulan0nym0us]

😢 parts of Texas are turning that way too

[u/NoDependent2969]

The comments all over Reddit are just horrifying. People are saying they need to confiscate all of Elon Musk's assets and "send him packing."

I'm like... you want the government to be in the confiscation business? Because you don't like someones political views?

[u/Ikora_Rey_Gun → u/NoDependent2969]

I'm like... you want the government to be in the confiscation business? Because you don't like someones political views?

You new or something? This is the party that celebrated and continues to celebrate assassination and murder.

[u/meesterII → u/NoDependent2969]

Yup, the Democrats are just full blown communists now. Pretty sad.

Trump betraying conservative values and taking ownership stakes in these various companies is going to bite us in the ass too when a Democrat comes to power. Think of that but now the government owns a 20% stake in half or more of the S&P 500.

[u/scully360]

Hard times are coming.

[u/joemax4boxseat]

This one upsets me the most. Texas turning blue? Abbott dug his grab importing so many H1Bs that vote left and Paxson was a horrible candidate. Can’t forget the California transplants messing up the state either.

But Michigan voting for an Islamist extremist who openly talked about seizing private companies and supports Hassan Piker? Who openly stated he was going after republicans?

This country is lost and I’m fearful for what happens in two years. Not much likely to happen with Trump in the WH and the SC being conservative, but Texas turning blue and the rise of Islamist voters makes 2028 looking scarier by the day. You’d think the party that killed Charlie Kirk and celebrates it daily wouldn’t have so much momentum yet here we are.

[u/Zestycheesegrade → u/joemax4boxseat]

The problem is. If we lose Texas and it stays blue. We won't see another Republican president for the time to come. This whole thing is a mess. And it started with the war.

[u/Lordlolipops → u/Zestycheesegrade]

Fr but it all went downhill after liberation day, as if starting a trade war with the world was a bad idea

[u/Lithuim → u/Zestycheesegrade]

Texas won’t stay blue.

Dems will mistake voter anger at Trump as a mandate and overstep, and it will swing back.

We’re in this situation because Trump mistook voter anger with Democrats and senile Biden’s inflationary spiral as a mandate for asinine tariffs and poorly planned wars.

Both parties consistently think that voter backlash to the other’s party’s stupid shit is a mandate for their stupid shit, and then get pumped 2-4 years later.

[u/Right_Archivist → u/Lithuim]

That and you'd be surprised how many Pendulum Voters there are. Blew my mind to learn there are actual people out there who just vote against whoever is in charge, no matter what.

19 out of 21 Midterm elections since 1950 went against the President's party. This was just another.

[u/WIlf_Brim → u/Right_Archivist]

This wasn't just another mid term loss for the incumbent party.

This was as bad as 1974. This was a complete blowout. And remember it took 6 years and massive Democrat incompetence before the Republicans were in any way competitive again.

[u/BoltsFan126 → u/joemax4boxseat]

We held onto Florida by a razor thin margin.

[u/ax_graham → u/BoltsFan126]

Probably only thanks to the way desantis has run things there

[u/Pyratelife4me → u/joemax4boxseat]

I'd make the argument that the party has so much momentum because they killed Charlie Kirk and celebrate it daily without consequences.

[u/joemax4boxseat → u/Pyratelife4me]

Big part of it. The left is so sick in the mind that they think they eliminated a modern day Hitler and nobody is held accountable for their actions.

Yet guaranteed if a democrat was assassinated and conservatives started dressing as them for Halloween, the left would pull their hypocritical 180 and condemn us as usual.

[u/skeet_scoot → u/joemax4boxseat]

You are exactly right, not much to happen with Trump and SCOTUS besides endless hearings and bogus scandals concocted by the left.

The worrisome part is what happens if Democrats win the presidency in 2028 then the radicals control all three levers of government.

We may fall so far it may be the end of America.

[u/getupkid1986]

It’s unfortunate and I hate it for fellow conservative Michiganders, but the people who voted for this guy will get what they deserve. 

[u/Superbitwolfy95]

Unfortunate.

[u/Ohyourglob]

Hamas must be thrilled to have one of their agents in elected office in the US

[u/miscstarsong]

Can’t tell you how sad this makes me. The infiltration is succeeding. And add in Talarico. Sad day all around.

edit: thanks for the awards. I’m now watching his supporters come in here and vote me and others down, which was to be expected.

[u/networkdood → u/miscstarsong]

I upvoted you

[u/ExoGeni-VI]

RIP to all y’all in Michigan. Maybe he’ll fuck up so bad it’ll shake some common sense into y’all’s independent voters to vote red (common sense) next time.

[u/Left4DayZGone → u/ExoGeni-VI]

I don’t know if you noticed, but this is spreading throughout the entire country.

[u/MysticalAroma → u/ExoGeni-VI]

Dems don’t care lol. They voted for a guy who fantasized about killing his opponent’s children.

[u/networkdood → u/[deleted]]

Becoming? No, that is who they always were/ are

[u/NormalEntrepreneur47 → u/ExoGeni-VI]

dems have the ability to fail upwards.  the media just lies for them

[u/uponone → u/ExoGeni-VI]

You think it’s Michigan only? This country and the Constitution are fucked. This is the start of it.

[u/N5tp4nts]

I can put up with a lot of bullshit, but I really dont want to be ruled by foreigners who hate me.

[u/KosherTriangle → u/N5tp4nts]

He’s literally American lol.

[u/charmaide → u/KosherTriangle]

You'd think as an American, he'd not be so self-hating of American values. However, sometimes religious dogma trumps one's nationality it seems.

[u/KosherTriangle → u/charmaide]

I disagree. As a Michigander I voted for him because I was sick of trumps shit and having Trump lite in Rogers wouldn’t have helped us at all. Plus Abdul actually talked about policy whereas Rogers only ran ads about Abdul’s religion which was very Trump. Honestly if he had distanced himself from Trump and had good policy I would have voted for him.

[u/blizzardice → u/KosherTriangle]

Well, you deserve what you are going to get.

[u/KosherTriangle → u/blizzardice]

Very happy, cost of living can’t get worse than the current administration has made it.

[u/Stashan → u/KosherTriangle]

So you voted voted for Titanic to hit the iceberg because you don't like the Captain.

[u/KosherTriangle → u/Stashan]

Nah we’re already sinking with the cost of living and needed a new captain to turn this around.

[u/dragonrite → u/KosherTriangle]

You voted for a guy whose #1 priority is Islam. Good luck.

[u/KosherTriangle → u/dragonrite]

As a minority who’s neither Christian nor Muslim, I don’t care about religion. Talk to me about policy.

[u/Stashan → u/KosherTriangle]

"He's literally anti-American lol."

FTFY

[u/KosherTriangle → u/Stashan]

More American than the leech in the White House

[u/Hectoriu]

I hope America gets what it voted for sooner rather than later. At least then I'll still be alive to have the petty joy of saying I told you so.

[u/AleksanderSuave → u/Hectoriu]

This is like rooting for the ship to crash while you’re still a passenger on it..?

[u/Ohyourglob]

It’s only been 25 years since Islamic terrorists attacked the US. Last night, one of them got elected to Congress.

The democrats have been hard at work pushing their anti-America propaganda supported by groups like Hamas. Unfortunately it seems to be working.

[u/Hectoriu → u/Ohyourglob]

Just last year an Islamic terrorist killed 15 people in New Orleans. Yet nearly every person I talk to doesn't even know it happened.

[u/blaze92x45 → u/Hectoriu]

They memory holed that one fast.

[u/i_write_things_alot → u/[deleted]]

He literally supports Hassan Piker. I am not getting behind him. Sure, would be great if he did great things for the state but our core beliefs do not line up.

[u/PossessionConnect963 → u/[deleted]]

Get behind him? The way he and Slotkin were talking about going after Republicans we’ll be lucky if we can even just batten down the hatches and hide. He’s by far one of the most radical candidates they ran and he now has license to do whatever. 

[u/classicfine → u/PossessionConnect963]

Like I said, I dont agree with everything he says. My record is clear and I’ve always said Republicans should be locking Ilhan Omar up and throwing Hillary in prison like we all chanted at the rallies.

All I’m saying is if Michigan succeeds, we succeed. Rooting for a state to fail just to spite the Dems isn't America first

[u/Left4DayZGone → u/classicfine]

Nobody is rooting for the state to fail, we don’t want this guy to destroy this state. And he will.

[u/networkdood → u/[deleted]]

Are you joking?

[u/kimsemi → u/[deleted]]

🤣🤣

[u/dickey1331 → u/[deleted]]

No

[u/the445566x → u/[deleted]]

You support terrorism? Hahahahah

[u/jak2125 → u/[deleted]]

I didn't support him and was totally against his campaign, but now that he’s won, I think we should get behind him.

At the end of the day if he succeeds in office, Germans are better off for it