Sanders-backed progressive Abdul El-Sayed leads Rep. Haley Stevens by 15 points in Michigan’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary, according to an Emerson College poll released Thursday, days before the August 4 contest.
El-Sayed pulled 54 percent to Stevens’ 39, with six percent still undecided. Pushed to say which way they lean, those holdouts only stretched his edge to 57-41. The winner replaces retiring Democrat Sen. Gary Peters, and both parties want the seat come November.
El-Sayed, a former Wayne County health director, lost a governor’s race in 2018 by more than 20 points. He is not the underdog this time. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
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