I can’t believe I have to write this! I know there’s a perpetual war over the soul of the Democratic Party. But it can, and must, be paused until November 3.
That said, Talarico would be a much better senator than Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate. So Crockett should be trying hard to ensure that Talarico wins. She’s not. “I personally don’t feel like the excitement necessarily exists within the Black community. Right now, I don’t feel like they’re excited,” Crockett said on the “Front Page” podcast recently of Talarico’s candidacy. That might sound like Crockett just giving a political analysis. And it’s likely that Talarico (like most candidates) has work to do to improve his standing among Black voters.
Crockett is acting like a sore loser. That’s not unusual in politics. But Crockett shouldn’t be taking this approach now. This November is perhaps the best chance in decades that Democrats have had to win a Senate seat in Texas. Winning that seat could help flip the Senate and put a key check on an authoritarian president. Talarico needs all of the support he can muster, particularly from Black voters who might be influenced by Crockett. (Polls suggest Black voters overwhelmingly chose Crockett over Talarico during the primary.)
In Michigan, Representative Haley Stevens, who lost to El-Sayed, fully embraced him right after the primary. But Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Representative Hillary Scholten have refused to endorse him. Outside of the state, a number of Democrats continue to attack El-Sayed, most notably Representative Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey in an appearance on Fox News and an op-ed in The Free Press. And numerous other Democrats and MSNBC hosts continue to link El-Sayed to podcaster Hasan Piker.
The other tension is over which factions in the party have power. El-Sayed’s victory over Stevens was a big win for the party’s progressives over the Democrats’ center-left bloc. And if El-Sayed wins the general election, progressives will seize on that win to argue that Democrats can ignore the center-left’s usual electability arguments against the left and nominate someone like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2028. So some in the center-left are sore about their primary defeats.
But other rationales for not fully backing El-Sayed are unacceptable. Considering how important this Senate race is, no Democratic official should oppose El-Sayed based on lingering resentment from this year’s primary or because of this race’s implications for 2028.
Finally, the vague, floating, and hard-to-dispel antisemitism accusation being lodged at El-Sayed (and Zohran Mamdani last year) should be dropped. If there are specific comments or policies that pro-Israel and/or Jewish Democrats want El-Sayed to address, that’s legitimate. El-Sayed rightly apologized this weekend for a remark that he made in March, in which he said “hurt people hurt people” when discussing an attack on a synagogue in the Detroit suburbs.
What connects the Michigan and Texas cases is the kind of racial and identity politics that Democrats desperately need to move on from. There are legitimate questions about the role of Black women in Democratic politics and what the party’s stances on Israel-Palestine issues should be. But the way to debate those questions isn’t to lodge vague accusations that Talarico can’t connect with Black people or that El-Sayed hates Jewish ones and use those as wedge issues to tank the party’s Senate candidates. I welcome an extended conversation about the role of Black women in the party and its Middle East policies in November—and I would assume Talarico and El-Sayed would as well.
Let me close with my own accusation. It’s fairly obvious that suggesting that a white candidate doesn’t connect with Black voters or that a Muslim candidate is antisemitic might hurt those candidates in a general election. I worry that Crockett doesn’t actually want Talarico to win; same for Gottheimer, Scholten, and Nessel in El-Sayed’s case. They would prefer a pro-Trump senator to one from a rival faction of their own party. That’s a strong accusation, but it’s pretty in line with their recent behavior. These politicians have two months to prove me wrong. I hope they do.
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