Left-wing political outsider Abdul El-Sayed is projected to win the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, which exposed bitter divisions over the party’s direction. The former public health official is on course to beat moderate four-term Democratic congresswoman Haley Stevens, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. El-Sayed voiced support for progressive causes like universal
On a Saturday afternoon in Michigan, with the sky still cloudy from smoke from the Canadian wildfires, hundreds of voters packed the opulent 104-year-old Detroit Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. As two of the leading figures on the American