Even Donald Trump’s harshest critics would find it hard to deny he carries his own unique set of political skills.
The fact he was written off after the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and able to secure a second term with a populist campaign that made a billionaire sound more in touch with the needs of working people than Joe Biden, is evidence alone.
What Trump doesn’t do well is variety or variation. Confronted with evidence that his policy of tariffs is hurting the people he claims to be helping, he simply doubles down on their purported success.
Presented with information the lining to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was damaged not by “vandals” but by the contractors he hired, he chooses to ignore it.
When polls suggest he’s the most unpopular president in history he looks away or does not let it enter his consciousness. When it was suggested he had a closer relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein he doubled down again on that denial and threatened to sue anyone who claimed otherwise.
And so it was with Abdul El-Sayed, the former Democratic health care administrator who won a hard-fought primary Senate contest against Congresswoman Haley Stevens in the battleground state of Michigan on Tuesday.
“Great news for the Republican Party. El-Sayed, a Communist loser who hates Jews and Israel, is the projected winner in his race with the Socialist,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“She was not expected to do nearly as well as she did. Now, the Dumocrats crazy policies will only get worse.”
Abdul El-Sayed, winner of Michigan U.S, Democratic primary, wants to rid politics of big money (Photo: Reuters)With more than 95 per cent of the votes counted, El-Sayed had led Stevens by just 48.5-47-5 and was declared the winner by the Associated Press.
While El-Sayed is not a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), he did receive the backing and support of high-profile members including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
He supports universal health care, has called the Israel war in Gaza a “genocide” and wants to get big money out of politics. It was no surprise then that Trump would try to smear him as a “communist loser”, even though he had won and was one step closer to making history as America’s first Muslim senator.
Indeed, the clue about how Trump and the Republicans will fight the general election contest in November, where their candidate is Mike Rogers, was not in the words he used to describe El-Sayed.
Rather it was in the language he used for Stevens, the centrist, mainstream candidate supported by the Democratic establishment and backed by $60m in campaign spending, a hefty chunk of it from an Israel-aligned super pac group.
In his social media post he called Stevens, who worked in the Obama administration to help bail out the car industry after the economic collapse of 2007 and 2008, a “socialist”.
Ahead of Michigan’s Senate primary contest, some polls suggested Haley Stevens had a better chance than El-Sayed against the Republicans in November (Photo: Finn Gomez/ Getty Images)It is pretty easy to imagine that had she won rather than El-Sayed, the president and other Republicans would have started calling her a “communist loser”. It is not as the president feels any obligation to tell the truth.
Tuesday was a big night for the Democrats. Many were looking to see if the contest would determine once and for all whether the progressive wing of the party had the upper hand. It appears that the divide is still there.
Michigan is a genuinely purple state. Trump won the presidential contest there in 2016 and 2024. If Democrats are to have any chance of taking control of the Senate later this year, it is critical El-Sayed can beat Rogers, especially after the party’s hope of flipping the state of Maine appear to have self-imploded.
Ahead of Tuesday’s race, some polls suggested Stevens had a better chance than El-Sayed against the Republicans in November, a reason – presumably – more people voted for her than the polls had predicted.
A lot will depend on whether Democrats in Michigan can unite around El-Sayed after this often ugly civil war, and whether he can reach out to those who voted for Stevens. One thing he will not have to contend with is the $60m of attack ads leveled at him by his own party.
On Wednesday, Stevens called El-Sayed to concede the race and said she would back him. She said: “I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election.” El-Sayed also struck an inclusive tone in a speech praising Stevens as “one of the most committed public servants”.
He added: “Whatever differences that we might have had in the primary, they pale in comparison to what unifies us.”
Let’s see what Trump has to say about that.
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